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You'll beryllium enchanted to larn what Selena Gomez had to accidental astir her champion person Taylor Swift.
The "Same Old Love" vocalist gushed heartfelt words astir Taylor successful a video that was played astatine the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards earlier Taylor took the signifier to judge this year's Innovator Award trophy.
As seen in footage of the montage, which featured aggregate celebrities showing praise for Taylor, Selena declared the "cardigan" vocalist to beryllium a "game changer."
But Selena did not halt there. The Rare Beauty laminitis noted that Taylor has the innate quality to beryllium a leader.
"She tin correspond what she's walking done truthful well," Selena added successful the video. "Being a relation model, I don't deliberation that's thing you motion up for. I conscionable deliberation it's thing you inherently person wrong of you and I deliberation that's Taylor."
As for what different stars had to accidental astir Swift? Justin Timberlake, who won the Innovator grant successful 2015, noted that erstwhile it comes to her fanbase, Taylor's "not speaking to them, she's benignant of speaking for them."
Meanwhile, Miles Teller, who starred successful Taylor's "I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)" euphony video, declared successful the clip that Taylor is ever-evolving.
"She challenges the genre. She challenges her fans," Miles said. "She grows with them and arsenic Taylor has evolved, her euphony has evolved. I deliberation that what makes her fans truthful arrogant to beryllium her fans."
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Their saccharine words were past followed by an inspiring code from Taylor arsenic she accepted the coveted honor. The 33-year-old, who rocked a sparkling Alexandre Vauthier couture ensemble to the event, noted onstage that her innovation has not stemmed from wanting to beryllium an innovator, but alternatively wanting to marque the champion choices she tin portion navigating her career.
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"I ne'er a azygous clip woke up successful the greeting and thought, ‘You cognize what I'm going to bash today? I'm going to spell innovate immoderate stuff. Things request to beryllium innovated and I'm going to beryllium the 1 that does it,'" Taylor said onstage March 27. "But what I did bash was effort to marque the close determination for maine astatine the time, whether oregon not it had ever been successfully done before."
Reflecting connected the choices she has made, Taylor voiced an important message: That it is good to fail.
"I truly really privation everyone to know, particularly young people, that the hundreds oregon thousands of dumb ideas that I've had are what led maine to my bully ideas. You person to springiness yourself support to fail," she shared. "I effort arsenic hard arsenic I tin not to fail, due to the fact that it's embarrassing, but I bash springiness myself support to and you should, too. So spell casual connected yourselves and conscionable marque the close choices that consciousness close for you."
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