🎂 HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY: Taylor celebrates first birthday as fiancée - we love you!

0:03 Calarugashawk Media. Hey Swifties, Welcome back to Taylor Swift Today. It's Sunday, December fifteenth, our regular weekly episode, and we have so much to cover, including Taylor celebrating her thirty sixth birthday yesterday as an engaged woman, her incredible late show appearance revealing everything from ghost nightgowns to bread obsessions, heartbreaking docuseries, footage of her meeting Southport families, mysterious reputation lyric changes, and she's taking legal action over bedding. This is a packed episode, so let's dive in. First, and most importantly, Happy thirty sixth birthday to our Queen Taylor Swift. Yesterday, December fourteenth, she officially celebrated her first birthday as a fiancee, thirty six years of changing the world, breaking records, and giving us the soundtrack to our Lives. We love you, Taylor and hope your birthday was as magical as you are.

1:00 Now let's talk about her amazing Late Show with Stephen Colbert appearance Wednesday night. She was absolutely stunning in a velvet burgundy one thousand, six hundred ninety five dollars David Koma mini dress with a bardo neckline and these incredible structured winglike off the shoulder sleeves, dark red pointed toe heels, sparkling necklace, blonde hair and a chic updo, dark red lip and cati liner. Pure showgirl glamour. The revelations from this interview were incredible. First, she admitted performing even with stomach flu multiple times during the eras tour, I make a decision at the beginning of the tour that there is no option to not go on stage even if you have the stomach flu, which I had multiple times during the tour. My goal was to never let them know. She explained, there is something bigger than you.

1:50 These people have saved up their money, rearranged their schedules, arranged transportation, They've had parties, created costumes, made friendship bracelets. I'm doing. There's the show, the dedication. Her post show routine is adorable. I'll go back to the hotel, get out of the costume, into the bath immediately mermaid time. Then she orders the most amount of room service possible, everything I want on that given night. She needs to power up for the three and a half hour show and afterwards signs like two thousand CDs the funniest revelation her home esthetic. I've got like an old Victorian nightgown on. I prefer to look like if you see me in the window, I'd like for someone to think they saw a ghost. She doesn't want any music paraphernalia at home. I don't want any plaques or a studio. I don't want there to be any evidence that a music person lives here. She revealed she's bread girl now and does cross stitching.

2:47 This isn't going to cross stitch itself. She called herself passionate, hyperactive people, saying I can't slow down the fact that I need to get up and do a lot of things today, but I can change what those things are. Her audiobook preferences are hilarious and specific. She wants an old rambling shambles, British mansion covered in moss, or ivy, a mysterious relationship he may not be what he seems, a murder in the past, whispers of it, the idea of a ghost or an actual ghost, or a family compound on an island off Maine with secrets, or a marriage that isn't what it seems. Plot twist, unreliable narrator. She is the Psycho. She talked about her incredible friendship with Stevie Nicks, being able to talk with her and hear what she's been through. She paved the way for me and any other artist. I feel very lucky that she's lended her very magical, wonderful, wise approach to life to me. She also revealed she travels everywhere with her cats. Colbert showed a photo of her sleeping with Benjamin Button literally perched on her head. He's really really attached to my pillow, wherever that may be, in whatever country that is. When discussing the Seattle earthquake during her show, she said, the entire tour there were just these out of control, out of body experiences. Most of my band has been with me since I was sixteen.

4:06 We'd look at each other and go, this isn't normal. She talked about joy blackouts. Medical professionals are diagnosing fans who came to the Era's tour with post concert amnesia. They were getting joy blackouts. I was like, oh, man, I think this one is different. Colbert shared a backstage video of them swaying to Haystephen before she mouthed the opening line while waving at him. He also shared how he'll love Taylor Swift till the day I die for how nice she was to his daughter. Now for the heartbreaking docuseries Revelations, The End of an Era shows Taylor breaking down in tears after meeting Southport attack victims families. The footage shows her sobbing in her glittering orange outfit minutes before going on stage at Wembley. Her mom, Andrea is seen comforting her, I know you helped them. I know it doesn't seem like it, but I know you help them. Taylor's struggle to catch her breath wipes her eyes, then is wheeled to stage with no time to process.

5:05 She said, it's my job to handle all these feelings and then perk up immediately to perform. That's just the way it's got to be. She compared herself to a pilot. You're like a pilot flying a plane through turbulence. You just have to have a calm, cool, collected tone, like welcome to the Era's tour. You lock it off three and a half hours. They don't have to worry about you. The docuseries also shows her telling Ed Sheeran she feels hunted and tracked like an animal amid her romance with Travis. I just need to do this show, remember the joy of it. I need more than I've ever needed. I'm just going to go somewhere no one can find me. When Ed suggested people forgot she's human, she said one hundred percent yeah. After the first Wembley show, she immediately called Travis.

5:51 It went so great. I'm so happy. Maybe the crowd knew I needed to pick me up. I was so happy that I thought I was going to forget how to play guitar and sing. She also revealed keeping the Tortured Poets Department secret. I love having a good secret. She would sing the lyrics instead of playing recordings to keep it hush. Major News reputation lyrics have been changed on Apple Music's Dollby at Miss version. I did something bad now says if a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing, and if he calls me a bitch, then he had it coming, instead of the original Delicate changed oh damn to goddamn. Taylor previously said in May about REPTV Full Transparency, I haven't even re recorded a quarter of it. The reputation album was so specific to that time. All that defiance that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood. But now these changes suggest it might be coming incredible achievement. The Life of a show Girl is the number one album on Billboard's twenty twenty five Year and Chart, with only one week of eligibility. It debuted October eighteen, the final week of the chart year, with four million units.

7:04 She's the first act to have year end. Number one albums in consecutive years with different titles since Elton John in nineteen seventy four to seventy five. She's now had five year and number one albums, the only act to do it more than three times. Previous wins Fearless two thousand and nine, nineteen eighty nine, twenty fifteen, Reputation twenty eighteen, TTPD twenty twenty four, and now The Life of a Showgirl twenty twenty five. The Tortured Poets Department also finished at number six. Legal drama Alert Taylor's taking action against Cathay Homing for their Swift Home betting line.

7:44 The battle dates to twenty fifteen, but reignited after they filed for a new logo with a bird wing. They even posted on Instagram. Using her album to promote their products Current Mood, Blanket Forts and Missus Swift on Repeat. Taylor's hired Rebeccah Libowitz from Venable LP, the same firm from her Jack Sweeney jet tracking case. She has until December twenty twenty six to file opposition documents. Ironically, she showed herself with a coop pillow eighty five dollars while talking about Benjamin sleeping on her head. She's also gone. After other trademarks, successfully canceling Taylor Talk Podcast trademark from Adam Bromberg, who ran two hundred episodes claiming to be the biggest, Baddest Taylor Swift podcast.

8:30 More in a moment. Looking at this week, from birthday celebrations to emotional docuseries reveals to potential reputation TV hints. The Colbert appearance showed us ghost tailor in Victorian nightgowns, cross stitching breadgirl who gets joy blackouts from her own shows. The vulnerability in. The docuseries paired with her professionalism is incredible. The fact she performed with stomach flew multiple times, met grieving families, then immediately performed for three and a half hours. Felt hunted, but still delivered the tour of a lifetime, This is Why We Love Her and getting year end number one with one week legendary. Taylor Swift Today now has an official Facebook community. Share your birthday wishes for Taylor, thoughts on the emotional docuseries, moments, and theories about reputation TV.

9:25 Search Taylor Swift Today on Facebook or check out Instagram. The End of an Era docuseries and the final show are streaming now on Disney Plus while we get more reputation hints, is the betting lawsuit going anywhere? Make sure you're following on your favorite podcast player. This is Ali celebrating Taylor's thirty sixth birthday, crying over the Southport footage and ready for Ghost nightgown Era. Stay strong, stay bred, obsessed, and stay fearless, Swifties,