R1 Taylor Swift reacts to haters who want her to ‘go away’ in Stephen Colbert interview
- Taylor Swift hit back at people who want her to “go away.”
- The pop icon responded to critics during an interview with Stephen Colbert.
- “I don’t want to, you know?” Swift said.
Taylor Swift is shaking off harsh criticism from those who want her to disappear into a blank space.
The pop icon appeared on Wednesday’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where she spoke about her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce, retaining control of her music masters, the release of her new Life of a Showgirl album, and what she’d say to haters who’ve had enough of her cultural domination.
“What I look up to the most in people is career longevity, friendship longevity, longevity in their relationships. How do you keep a good thing going?” Swift told Colbert when asked about people she admires most in her life.
Taylor Swift on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’.
She continued, observing that “there are certain corners of our society that love that and look up to longevity,” before pointing out that “there are also corners that are like, give someone else a turn.”
“‘Can’t you just go away so we can talk about how good you were?'” Swift said, paraphrasing criticism she’s heard, before clapping back with a simple response: “I’m like, I don’t want to, you know?”
The audience applauded the 35-year-old’s reply, before she moved on to talking about her relationship with Kelce, whom she said she “can talk to” about “any of” the hardships in her life.
“Getting engaged to the love of my life, getting all my music back — those were two things that just never could’ve happened, they could’ve just never happened,” Swift said later in the interview. “Both those things could’ve just never arrived in my life, and I’m so grateful for both of those things happening. My fans are why I was able to get my music back. That’s how I spent that Eras Tour money!”
Swift was in a multi-year battle to regain control of her masters from talent manager Scooter Braun, who, after buying Big Machine Records, took ownership of the superstar’s original masters.
Between 2021 and 2023, the Grammy winner re-recorded and re-released new versions of four prior albums — Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989 — before finally regaining the rights to her masters earlier this year.
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“I felt like I picked the ones first that I felt like, I could’ve sang that a little better,” Swift reflected on the new recordings. “I feel like I actually kind of improved upon some of the performances!”
Watch Swift on Colbert in the video above.
