went from watching taylor's speech from
home five years ago
to hugging the mega star and accepting
the same award that her hero had won
just half a decade before
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somewhere right now your future woman of
the year
is probably sitting in a piano lesson or
in a girls choir today right now
we need to take care of her but my exact
quote during the speech was
i really just feel like we need to
continue to try to offer something to a
younger generation of musicians
because somewhere right now your future
woman of the year is probably sitting in
a piano lesson
or in a girls choir and today right now
we need to take care of her
i've since learned that at that exact
moment
an 11 year old girl in california really
was
taking piano lessons and really was in a
girls choir
and this year she has been named woman
of the year at the age of 17.
her name is billy
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fire in the newer faces in our music
industry
whose work i absolutely love i see it in
lizzo
rosalia really eilish
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the second thing i want to say is y'all
speeches were long as [ __ ]
oh my god [ __ ]
long as hell what taylor said earlier
was beautiful
and i know she already said this
taylor's speech earlier she like
stole half of what i was going to say
which was
that in 2014 she won this award
and her speech was she basically said
right now i'm gonna quote this wrong but
she said basically like
right now your future woman of the year
is
somewhere in a piano lesson in a choir
and um we need to take care of her
next on the list is
picture to burn which i don't know again
i don't know how this song came about
but
i i used to love this song when i was
like four
no probably older than that probably
like six or something well
taylor swift had these wonderful
crossover country pop songs that
had these great stories to tell and they
were so compelling
very iconic and uh this was just one of
them
amazing yeah um it's crazy it's very
country like when i listen to it now i'm
like wow
i totally didn't realize how country
this was um well that's her evolution
you know she was a country artist who
created i
loved this song back then because i
thought it was so badass and i thought
it was so like
cool and like me and then yeah i just
loved it i didn't even
actually didn't know it was taylor swift
until this year
i really realized that until i saw some
like documentary about
somebody that like they i don't remember
what it was but they were saying that
they um
they had nobody to like have the success
with them so when they
empathize yeah nobody could like
high-five them
i think it was taylor swift actually i
think it was in her documentary she said
something about um
she said you know at the at the the
biggest moments
in my career i had nobody to be like
yes we did it like high five were both
on the high together it was just like
only her alone in it and i realized like
wow i have my brother
you know i'm super lucky to have my
brother to like be in it with me and
have my mom
everywhere with me
in this room and the fact that you guys
are all looking at me right now that's
crazy um i cannot believe this
thank you to the fans cannot believe
this
thank you to the fans
this is billy eilish's first american
sorry to be in this category
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