Taylor Swift's Management Sends Strong Message to Graduates
In the latest episode of Handmaid's Tale Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version) made a surprise appearance, stirring speculation that Reputation (Taylor’s Version) is finally on the way.
While Swifties around the world wonder when Swift's next public appearance will be, her management team is sending a different message. Back in 2022 the then-32-year-old singer-songwriter was the official guest of honor at New York University's spring graduation taking place at New York City’s Yankee Stadium.
After accepting an honorary fine arts doctorate, Swift delivered a 20-minute speech. "I’m…90% sure the main reason I’m here is because I have a song called ‘22’. And let me just say, I am elated to be here with you today as we celebrate and graduate New York University’s Class of 2022," she said in the beginning of the speech.
Fast forward three years later and Taylor Nation, which is run by her management team, shared a select quote from the speech in a strong message to recent graduates.
In their message, "Taylor Nation" referenced a meaningful excerpt from Swift’s NYU commencement speech, offering encouragement and perspective to this year’s graduates.
“congraTS to the class of 2025 grads!” Taylor Nation posted on X - former Twitter - before adding a quote from Swift: "We are led by our gut instincts, our intuitions, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I… We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it.”
congraTS to the class of 2025 grads! ????♥️
— Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) May 21, 2025
In the words of Honorary Doctor Swift: “We are led by our gut instincts, our intuitions, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I… We will recover. We will learn from it. We will… pic.twitter.com/G58g8hsXmH
Swift, who never got the college experience, joked about her honorary doctorate.
"I’d like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a doctor. Not the type of doctor you would want around in the case of an emergency, unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section," she said at the time. "Or if your emergency was that you needed a person who can name over 50 breeds of cats in one minute."