This film is dedicated to #TaylorSwift on the 20th anniversary of her debut.

And the fans, you have changed my life! And I did that in a song called Tim McGraw where, you know, I'm singing about this kind of love lost and hoping that person thinks of me and then in the bridge it's revealed that I wrote this song and I hope he hears it. I think the first time I felt like I don't care if people hate this because I love it so much was when I wrote the song Love Story. When I was 17 sitting in my bedroom mad at my parents because they wouldn't let me go on a date with a guy who was too old so I shouldn't have been on a date with him anyway and this is why you need to discipline your kids because they might write songs that go number one. Thank you, thank you, thank you! But this was like headline news I was like, these discussions can lead to a really bad place if I don't do something to counteract them and to prove that no, it wasn't my co-writers that did all this work and yes, I am the author of this entire body of work that I was very proud of. I'd written so many songs alone. On Red there was a song that I wrote alone in a hotel room when I was 22 years old called Nothing New. It sounds ridiculous but at 22 years old I felt completely washed up. I felt like maybe the only thing that made me special was that I was this teen phenom whatever I was looked at as. So I wrote this song and it includes lines like how can a person know everything at 18 and nothing at 22? And then there was this big upheaval of no she doesn't, no she doesn't, she sucks actually and it was like, it really turned the tables on my perception. I love you so much, thank you for this, it's unbelievable. Criticism has been a huge fuel for me. It's been a huge jumping off point like a creative writing prompt or something. There are so many songs in my career that would not exist like Blank Space would not exist if I hadn't had people being like here's a slideshow of all her boyfriends. There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame but if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you. I loved the Reputation album. I was like you guys say what you want, I know what I did, I love it. Like go with God, sorry. Like you can come around if you want, it's okay if you don't. And then you know six or seven years later people are like oh my God, like ready for it. When I was making Reputation this album for a while there I felt really misunderstood by a lot of people and so I just want to say to the fans, thank you. And as for me, lately I've been focusing less on doing what they say I can't do and more on doing whatever the hell I want. Like almost as a method of self-control or self-preservation or something but for the Folklore album and everything like that it was really, it wasn't as a response to having a public life and the intrusions that come with that. It was really more of just wanting to challenge myself as a writer. I really have always just thought it would be so amazing to write books and it's so exciting to have the challenge of could I get enough plot points in in a three and a half minute song to where people felt like they read something after they heard it or just take you back to that bedtime story kind of tell me a story. I want to be able to put my own image on these characters and it was really amazing. It opened up my world. You guys met us in this imaginary world that we created and we can't tell you how honored we are forever by this. Thank you so much. In my songwriting sense and I hope it never goes to work because it's really fun. Kind of like being a narrator that's not the person I relate to. And then Antihero is a song that I'm so proud of still. That song doesn't exist if I don't get criticized for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever. I've been keeping from you for the last two years which is that my brand new album comes out April 19th. It's called the Tortured Poets Department. Basically you learn that like you're in this machine and they're trying to make you into a woman that they just idealized and then discarded. I feel like I'm reading my old diaries thinking about all the different girls I was until I was this one. This album isn't really about what happened to me on stage. It's about what I was going through off stage.