Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

đŸŽȘ TayRewind: The NYU Speech That Predicted Joe, Matty & Midnights

Donnerstag, 9. April 2026 · 1 h 05

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We’re rewinding to Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech 2022 and reading it like a prophecy. At the time, it felt like a charming, self-aware victory lap. But in hindsight? It’s loaded with real easter eggs about everything that followed: the emotional architecture of Midnights, the meta-theatre of The Eras Tour, the unraveling of her long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn, and the chaotic re-entry of Matty Healy. We’re dissecting the language, the tone, the “mistakes” motif, the self-mythologizing — and asking: was Taylor already preparing us for the next era
 or trying to convince herself of it?

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