Taylor Swift is opening up about her life for the first time in a long time.
This week, the singer was named Time Magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year.
The big news was announced on Wednesday on the Today show, where Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs shared the news with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie.
“Picking one person who represents the eight billion people on the planet is no easy task,” he began in his announcement.
The Editor-In-Chief continued: “There are a number of different choices that could have represented 2023 but we picked a choice, someone who represents joy.”
“Someone who’s bringing light to the world, someone who’s taken her own story and made it big enough for everyone,” Jacobs said of their choice. “And I don’t think there’s anyone who’s moved so many people so well as Taylor Swift did in 2023.”
Of the singer’s influence over the past year, he added, “She was like the weather. She was everywhere.”
For the honor, Swift has a total of three covers for the Person of the Year, including one of her holding her cat, Benjamin Button.
The title of Person Of The Year also means Taylor gave her first magazine interview in four years, which is something fans have been waiting for.
In her long-awaited interview, the star talks all about her success over the years, her struggles, and of course: her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
“I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,” Swift said of her career. “I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away.”
As for her current spot at the top? She says, “This is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I’ve ever been.”
The “Karma” singer went on to reveal how she felt about her now-boyfriend putting his initial interest in her out in the open on his podcast.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she said to the magazine.
“We started hanging out right after that,” she revealed. “So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.”
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple,” Taylor explained, shutting down other timelines of their relationship.
“I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game,” Swift said. “We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
Now that their union is out in the open, Swift insists that she and her baller beau are focused on showing their support for one another in any way they can.
“We’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she shares.
“The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other,” she gushed.
She also talked about just how much the media has been paying attention to her at Kelce’s games, admitting she doesn’t know what’s going on in the moment.
“I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in,” she explained. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is.”
Taylor continued: “You have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
Still, the fact that she is being shown on camera so much during the games doesn’t bother her, because Swift only has one motive: supporting her man.
“I’m just there to support Travis,” she said. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Not only that, she’s also become a bonafide football fan, realizing she’s missed out on the sport her whole life.
“Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift joked to the magazine. “I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
Another famous friend Taylor talked about during her interview was Beyoncé, with whom she’s been spending a lot of time lately.
“She’s the most precious gem of a person—warm and open and funny,” Swift said of the icon.
“And she’s such a great disrupter of music-industry norms,” she continued. “She taught every artist how to flip the table and challenge archaic business practices.”
“There were so many stadium tours this summer, but the only ones that were compared were me and Beyoncé,” Swift says of the media’s narrative surrounding their tours.
“Clearly it’s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other, even when those two artists in question refuse to participate in that discussion,” she concluded.