Absolutely love this one, right? 绝对喜欢这个，对吗？
(audience applauds) （观众鼓掌）
This is sort of a, it's not a short speech. 这是一个简短的演讲。
So just, I don't want this to slip and break 所以我只是不想让它滑脱
'cause it's very important to me. 因为这对我来说非常重要。
- I got it. - 我知道了。
- Thank you so much. - 非常感谢。
(audience laughs) （观众笑）
She's so supportive, we all need someone like that. 她是如此的支持，我们都需要这样的人。
(laughs) （笑）
I'm Taylor, good evening. 我是泰勒，晚上好。
I wanna first thank Billboard from the bottom of my heart 我首先要衷心感谢Billboard
for this honor, for- - 为了这个荣誉
Whoa, this is going great so far. 哇，到目前为止进展顺利。
(audience laughs) （观众笑）
Excellent, okay. 很好，很好。
I wanna say thank you so much to Billboard 我想对Billboard表示非常感谢
for giving me this honor, 给我这个荣誉
for naming me as their Woman of the Decade. 把我命名为他们的十年女性。
So what does it mean to be the woman of this decade? 那么，成为这个十年的女人意味着什么？
Well, it means I've seen a lot. 好吧，这意味着我已经看了很多东西。
When this decade began I was 20 years old 当这十年开始时，我才20岁
and I had put out my self- titled debut album when I was 16, 我16岁那年发行了自己的同名首张专辑
and then the album that would become my breakthrough album, 然后成为我突破性专辑的专辑，
which was called Fearless. 被称为无所畏惧。
And I saw that there was a world of music 我看到有一个音乐世界
and experience beyond country music 和乡村音乐之外的经验
that I was really curious about. 我真的很好奇。
I saw pop stations send my songs Love Story 我看到流行电台发送了我的歌曲《爱情故事》
and You Belong With Me to number one for the first time. 和您属于我，第一次成为第一名。
And I saw that as a female in this industry, 我看到作为这个行业的女性，
some people will always have slight reservations about you. 有些人对您总是会有一些保留。
Whether you deserve to be there, whether your male producer 无论您是否应该在那里，还是您的男性监制
or co- writer is the reason for your success, 或合著者是您成功的原因，
or whether it was a savvy record label. 还是它是一个精明的唱片公司。
It wasn't. 不是。
(audience laughs) （观众笑）
I saw that people love to explain away a woman's success 我看到人们喜欢解释女人的成功
in the music industry, and I saw something in me change 在音乐界，我发现自己发生了一些变化
due to this realization. 由于这种认识。
This was the decade when I became a mirror 这是我成为镜子的十年
for my detractors. 给我的批评者
Whatever they decided I couldn't do is exactly what I did. 他们决定我不能做的就是我所做的。
- [Audience Member] Woo! - [观众]呜！
- Oh, I'll take it. (applauding) - 哦，我接受。 （鼓掌）
Thanks! 谢谢！
Whatever they criticized about me 无论他们批评我什么
became material for musical satires 成为音乐讽刺的素材
or inspirational anthems, 或鼓舞人心的国歌，
and the best lyrical examples I can think of 还有我能想到的最好的抒情例子
are songs like Mean, Shake It Off, and Blank Space. 是诸如Mean，Shake It Off和Blank Space之类的歌曲。
Basically if people had something to say about me, 基本上，如果人们对我有话要说，
I usually said something back in my own way. 我通常以自己的方式说一些话。
And this reflect dictated more than just my lyrics. 这反映出的不仅仅是我的歌词。
When Fearless did win Album of the Year at the Grammys 当Fearless赢得格莱美奖年度专辑时
and I did become the youngest solo artist to ever win 我的确成为有史以来最年轻的独唱艺术家
the award, with that win came criticism and backlash 该奖项的胜利带来了批评和强烈反对
in 2010 that I'd never experienced before 在2010年以前我从未经历过
as a young new artist. 作为一个年轻的新艺术家。
All of a sudden people had doubts about my singing voice, 突然之间，人们对我的歌声感到怀疑，
was it strong enough, was I a little bit pitchy? 它足够坚固吗，我有点胖吗？
All of a sudden they weren't sure if I was the one 突然之间，他们不确定我是否是那个人
writing the songs because sometimes in the past 写歌是因为有时候
I had had co- writers in the room. 我在房间里有共同作家。
At that time I couldn't understand 当时我听不懂
why this wave of harsh criticism had hit me so hard. 为什么这股严厉的批评浪潮令我如此震惊。
I believe a popular headline back then was, 我相信当时流行的标题是
A Swift Backlash, which is clever, you gotta give it to 'em. 一个聪明的Swift Backlash，您必须将其付诸实践。
(audience laughs) （观众笑）
And now I realize that this is just what happens 现在我意识到这就是发生的事情
to a woman in music if she achieves success or power 对于音乐界的女性，如果她取得成功或力量
beyond people's comfort level. 超出人们的舒适度。
I now have come to expect that with good news 我现在已经开始期待好消息了
comes some sort of pushback. 出现某种回推。
But I didn't know that then. 但是那时我还不知道。
So then I decided that I would be the only songwriter 所以我决定我将是唯一的歌曲作者
on my third album, Speak Now, 在我的第三张专辑《 Speak Now》中
and that I would tour constantly, 而且我会不断巡回演出，
work on my vocals every day, 每天为我的人声工作，
and perfect my stamina in a live show. 并通过现场表演完善我的耐力。
I decided I would be what they said I couldn't be. 我决定我会像他们所说的那样。
I didn't know then that soon enough 我不知道那么快
people would decide on something else 人们会决定其他事情
I wasn't quite doing right, and then the circle 我当时做得不太好，然后是圈子
would keep going on and on and rolling along 会一直持续下去
and I would keep accommodating, over- correcting, 我会继续包容，过度纠正，
in an effort to appease my critics. 为了安抚我的批评家。
They're saying I'm dating too much in my 20s? 他们说我20多岁时约会太多？
Okay, I'll stop, I'll just be single. 好吧，我停下来，我会单身。
For years. 多年。
(audience laughs) （观众笑）
Now they're saying my album Red 现在他们在说我的专辑Red
is filled with too many breakup songs? 充满太多分手的歌曲？
Okay, okay, I'll make one about moving to New York 好吧，好吧，我将介绍一下搬到纽约
and deciding that really my life is more fun 并决定我的生活真的更有趣
with just my friends. 和我的朋友们在一起。
Oh, they're saying my music is changing too much 哦，他们是说我的音乐变化太大了
for me to stay in country music? 让我留在乡村音乐中？
All right. 行。
Okay, here's an entire genre shift 好的，这是整个风格的转变
and a pop album called 1989. 还有一张叫做1989的流行专辑
- [Audience Member] Woo! - [观众]呜！
- Ah! (applauding) - 啊！ （鼓掌）
You heard it? 你听到了吗
Sick! 生病！
Now it's that I'm showing you too many pictures 现在是我给你看了太多照片
of me with my friends, okay, I can stop doing that too. 我和朋友们在一起，好吧，我也可以停止这样做。
Now I'm actually a calculated manipulator 现在我实际上是一个有计划的操纵者
rather than a smart businesswoman? 而不是聪明的女商人？
Okay, I'll disappear from public view for years. 好吧，我将在公众视野中消失多年。
Now I'm being cast a villain to you? 现在我要对你坏人？
Okay, here's an album called Reputation 好吧，这是一张名为信誉的专辑
and there are lots of snakes everywhere. 到处都有蛇
In the last 10 years I have watched 在过去的十年中，我看过
as women in this industry are criticized 因为这个行业的女性受到批评
and measured up to each other and picked at 并相互测量并在
for their bodies, their romantic lives, their fashion, 为了他们的身体，浪漫的生活，他们的时尚，
or have you ever heard someone say about a male artist, 或您是否曾经听过有人谈论男性艺术家，
I really like his songs but I don't know what it is, 我真的很喜欢他的歌，但我不知道那是什么，
there's just something about him I don't like? 我不喜欢他吗？
No! 没有！
That criticism is reserved for us! 这种批评是为我们保留的！
But you know, I've learned that the difference 但你知道，我了解到
between those who can continue to create in that climate 在那些可以继续创造这种氛围的人之间
usually comes down to this. 通常归结为这个。
Who lets that scrutiny break them 谁让这种审查破坏了他们
and who just keeps making art. 还有谁一直在做艺术。
I've watched as one of my favorite artists of this decade, 我看过这十年来我最喜欢的艺术家之一，
Lana Del Rey, was ruthly criticized- - 拉娜·德尔·雷（Lana Del Rey）受到残酷的批评-
Yes! 是!
(man mumbles) （男人喃喃自语）
Yeah. 是的
(applauding) Thank you. （鼓掌）谢谢。
We have similar tastes, I like it. 我们喜欢相似的口味。
She was ruthlessly criticized in her early career 在她的早期职业生涯中，她受到残酷的批评。
and then slowly but surely she turned into, in my opinion, 然后我认为她慢慢地但肯定地变成了
the most influential artist in pop. 流行音乐中最有影响力的艺术家。
Her vocal stylings, her lyrics, her aesthetics, 她的人声风格，歌词，美学，
they've been echoed and repurposed in every corner of music, 它们在音乐的每个角落都得到了回应和重新定位，
and this year her incredible album 而今年她令人难以置信的专辑
is nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys 获得格莱美奖年度专辑提名
because she just kept making art. 因为她一直在做艺术。
And that example should inspire all of us, 这个例子应该启发我们所有人，
that the only way forward is forward motion. 前进的唯一途径就是向前运动。
That we shouldn't let obstacles like criticism 我们不应该让批评之类的障碍
slow down the creative forces that drive us. 放慢驱动我们的创造力。
And I see that fire in the newer faces in our music industry 我看到音乐界新面孔中的火焰
whose work I absolutely love. 我绝对喜欢谁的作品。
I see it in Lizzo, Rosalia, Tayla Parx, 我在利佐（Lizzo），罗莎莉亚（Rosalia），塔伊拉·帕克斯（Tayla Parx）看到了
Megan Thee Stallion, Princess Nokia, Nina Nesbitt, 梅根·塞种马（Megan Thee Stallion），诺基亚公主（Nina Nesbitt），
And so many other amazing women 还有很多其他出色的女性
who are making music right now. 现在正在制作音乐的人。
Female artists in music have dominated this decade 音乐领域的女性艺术家占据了主导地位
in growth, streaming, record and ticket sales, 在增长，流媒体，唱片和门票销售方面，
and critical acclaim. 和好评。
So why are we doing so well? 那我们为什么做得这么好？
Because we have to grow fast. 因为我们必须快速成长。
We have to work this hard, 我们必须努力工作
we have to prove that we deserve this, 我们必须证明我们应得的，
and we have to top our last achievements. 而且我们必须超越最后的成就。
Women in music, onstage or behind the scenes, 舞台上或幕后的音乐女性，
are not allowed to coast. 不允许滑行。
We are held at a higher, 我们被视为更高，
sometimes impossible- feeling standard. 有时是不可能的感觉标准。
And it seems that my fellow female artists 好像我的女歌手们
have taken this challenge and they have accepted it. 已经接受了这个挑战，他们已经接受了。
It seems like the pressure that could have crushed us 似乎压力可能压垮了我们
made us into diamonds instead. 使我们变成了钻石。
And what didn't kill us actually did make us stronger. 没有杀死我们的东西实际上使我们变得更坚强。
But we need to keep advocating for women 但是我们需要继续倡导女性
in the recording studios, behind the mixing board, 在录音室的混音台后面，
in A and R meetings, because rather than fighting 在A和R会议中，因为不是战斗
to be taken seriously in their fields, 要认真对待他们的领域，
these women are still struggling 这些女人还在挣扎
to even have a chance to be in the room. 甚至有机会进入房间。
(audience applauds) （观众鼓掌）
We now find ourselves fully immersed 现在，我们发现自己完全沉浸其中
in a vast frontier that wasn't around last decade, 在过去十年左右的广阔领域中，
and that is the streaming world. 那就是流媒体世界。
In music, we're always walking hand- in- hand with technology, 在音乐方面，我们始终与技术并驾齐驱，
and sometimes that is so awesome, 有时候真是太棒了
like how now we're able to just drop a song 就像现在我们如何能够放下一首歌
that we made yesterday. 我们昨天所做的。
I've spoken out in the past about the future 我过去说过关于未来的事情
of revenue flow for creators and the songwriters 和创作者的收入流
and producers who are being left behind 和被遗忘的生产者
due to these rapid shifts and changes. 由于这些快速变化和变化。
I still don't think that record contracts 我仍然不认为唱片合同
or producers agreements have fully caught up, 或生产者协议已完全赶上，
and I hope that in the next decade, 我希望在未来十年内，
we can keep searching for the right solution 我们可以继续寻找正确的解决方案
for producers, songwriters, and creators. 面向制作人，词曲作者和创作者。
Don't you? 是不是
(audience applauds) （观众鼓掌）
Lately there's been a new shift that has affected me 最近发生了一个新变化，影响了我
personally and that I feel is a potentially harmful force 我个人认为这是一种潜在的有害力量
in our industry, and as your resident loud person, 在我们的行业中，作为您的居民，
I feel the need to bring it up. 我觉得有必要提出来。
And that is the unregulated world of private equity 那就是私募股权的不受管制的世界
coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate. 进入并购买我们的音乐，就好像它是房地产一样。
As if it's an app or a shoe line. 好像它是一个应用程序或鞋子系列。
This just happened to me without my approval, 这只是在未经我批准的情况下发生在我身上，
consultation, or consent. 咨询或同意。
After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, 在我被拒绝直接购买音乐的机会之后，
my entire catalog was sold 我的整个目录都卖了
to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings 踏板车博朗的伊萨卡控股公司
in a deal that I'm told was funded 有人告诉我一笔交易是有资金的
by the Soros Family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle Group. 由索罗斯家族（Soros Family），23 Capital和凯雷投资集团（Carlyle Group）共同出资。
Yet to this day none of these investors 到目前为止，这些投资者中没有一个
have ever bothered to contact me or my team directly. 曾经不愿意直接与我或我的团队联系。
To perform their due diligence on their investment. 对投资进行尽职调查。
On their investment in me. 关于他们对我的投资。
To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art. 问一下我对新的艺术品拥有者的看法。
The music I wrote. 我写的音乐。
The videos I created. 我创建的视频。
Photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs. 我的照片，我的笔迹和我的专辑设计。
And of course Scooter never contacted me or my team 当然，Scooter从未联系过我或我的团队
to discuss it prior to the sale 在出售之前进行讨论
or even when it was announced. 甚至宣布时。
I'm fairly certain he knew exactly 我可以肯定他很清楚
how I would feel about it though. 我对此有何感想。
And let me just say that the definition 我只说定义
of the toxic male privilege in our industry 行业中有毒男性特权的象征
is people saying, but he's always been nice to me, 人们在说，但他一直对我很好，
when I'm raising valid concerns about artists 当我对艺术家提出合理的担忧时
and their rights to own their music. 以及他们拥有音乐的权利。
And of course he's nice to you. 当然，他对你很好。
If you're in this room, you have something he needs. 如果您在这个房间里，您有他需要的东西。
The fact is that private equity 事实是，私募股权
is what enabled this man to think, 是这个人思考的原因
according to his own social media post, 根据他自己的社交媒体帖子，
that he could buy me. 他可以买我。
But I'm obviously not going willingly. 但是我显然不愿意。
Yet the most amazing thing was to discover 然而最神奇的是发现
that it would be the women in our industry 那将是我们行业中的女性
who would have my back and show me the most vocal support 谁会支持我，并向我展示最大的支持
at one of the most difficult times, 在最困难的时候之一
and I will never, ever forget it. 我永远也不会忘记它。
Like, ever. 就像，曾经。
(cheers) (applauds) （欢呼）（鼓掌）
But to conclude, I will say that in 10 years 最后，我要说的是10年后
I've seen forward steps in our industry, 我已经看到了我们行业的前进步骤，
in our awareness, our inclusion, 在我们的意识中，我们的包容，
our ability to start calling out unfairness and misconduct. 我们开始谴责不公平和不当行为的能力。
I've seen the advent of social media, 我已经看到社交媒体的到来，
the way it can boost the breakthrough of emerging artists 促进新兴艺术家突破的方式
and I've seen fans become more engaged and supportive 而且我已经看到粉丝变得更加投入和支持
than ever before. 比以往任何时候都。
I've leaned on that support 我依靠这种支持
and it has kept me in a place where no matter what, 它使我无论身在何处，
I always wanted to keep making music for them. 我一直想继续为他们做音乐。
I was up on a stage in New York City in 2014 2014年，我在纽约市的一个舞台上
accepting Billboard Woman of the Year 接受年度广告牌女人
and I was talking about the future of streaming. 我在谈论流媒体的未来。
How we needed to make sure that the female artists, 我们需要如何确保女性艺术家，
writers, and producers of the next generation 下一代的作家和制作人
were protected and compensated fairly. 得到了公平的保护和补偿。
This was before my record deal with Universal, last year, 这是在去年我与环球唱片达成唱片交易之前，
that would contractually guarantee 通过合同保证
that the artists on their roster be paid 名册上的艺术家得到报酬
upon any sale of their Spotify shares unrecoupable. 出售其Spotify股份后将无法收回。
So thank you for that. 非常感谢你的帮忙。
(audience applauds) （观众鼓掌）
This speech I'm referring to was on my 25th birthday. 我指的是我25岁生日。
I'm about to turn 30 tonight, woo! 今晚我快30岁了，呜！
(cheers) (applauds) （欢呼）（鼓掌）
But my exact quote during the speech was, 但是我在演讲中的确切说法是，
"I really just feel like we need to continue to try “我真的只是觉得我们需要继续尝试
"to offer something to a younger generation of musicians, “为年轻一代的音乐家提供一些东西，
"because somewhere right now your future Woman of the Year “因为现在某处是您未来的年度女性
"is probably sitting in a piano lesson or in a girls' choir “可能正在上钢琴课或女孩合唱团
"and today right now we need to take care of her." “今天，我们现在需要照顾她。”
I've since learned that at that exact moment, 从那以后我就知道了
an 11- year- old girl in California 加利福尼亚的一个11岁女孩
really was taking piano lessons 真的是在上钢琴课
and really was in a girls' choir. 真的在一个女合唱团里
And this year she has been named Woman of the Year 今年她被评为年度女性
at the age of 17, her name is Billie. 她17岁那年的名字叫Billie。
(audience applauds) （观众鼓掌）
And those are the stories we need to think about 这些就是我们需要考虑的故事
every day as we do our jobs within this industry. 在我们从事该行业工作的每一天。
The ones where people's dreams come true 梦想成真的人
and they get to create music and play it for people. 他们就可以创作音乐并为人们演奏。
The ones where fans feel a connection to music 歌迷觉得自己与音乐有联系的人
that makes their day easier, makes their night more fun, 让他们的日子更轻松，让他们的夜晚更有趣，
makes their love feel more sacred, 使他们的爱情更加神圣，
or their heartache feel less isolating. 或他们的心痛感较差。
The ones where all of you in this room 你们所有人都在这个房间里的人
stand as an example for someone else in the next generation 为下一代别人树立榜样
who loves the same thing that we love. 谁爱我们喜欢的东西。
Music. 音乐。
And no matter what else enters the conversation, 不管其他什么进入对话，
we will always bring it back to music. 我们将永远把它带回到音乐中。
And as for me, lately I've been focusing less on doing 对于我来说，最近我一直较少专注于做
what they say I can't do and more on doing 他们说我做不到的，还有更多要做的
whatever the hell I want. 不管我想要什么
(applauds) Thank you for a magnificent, （鼓掌）谢谢您的精彩，
happy, free, confused, sometimes lonely 快乐，自由，困惑，有时孤独
but mostly golden decade. 但大多是黄金十年。
I'm honored to be here tonight. 我很荣幸今晚在这里。
I feel very lucky to be with you, thank you so much. 与您在一起我感到非常幸运，非常感谢。
(cheers) (applauds) （欢呼）（鼓掌）