“The fans have made my world a magical place to live in, and I guess this tour is me trying to do the same for them” — Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift attends the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 20, 2018.

My first award show in a few years and it was so much fun thanks to you 💗 I love you guys. PS thanks versace for this ✨delicate✨ dress.                        📷: Getty Entertainment 

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“One of my favorite things about you guys over the last 15 years is that a lot of times, people in the music industry would tell me what you wanted, and a few times it would be things like “Oh, you can’t work with that person”. or “You can’t make a pop album because your fans are country fans. They would never understand that; they’d be really confused, and they wouldn’t stick around.” And I said to them: “No, I’m pretty sure that I know them better than you do. I’m pretty sure that they want to be able to connect with a feeling in a song. They wanna be able to relate to lyrics in a song.” You guys have stuck around for a lot of musical changes, and you’ve let me play; you’ve let me evolve, and that’s something I’m so grateful for. Thank you for letting me do that. And I still write songs the exact same way. I pick up an instrument, get an idea, and so each song can kind of be broken down into acoustic even if it wasn’t like that on the album.”

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