Taylor Swift took the stage at the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday\u00a0in NYC still hoarse from cheering on the Knicks at MSG the night before.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe quality of my speaking voice is the product of two things that I am not sorry for\u2026 One is that I was lucky enough to go to a Knicks game last night,\u201d the \u201cShake It Off\u201d icon said croakily while explaining her raspy tone after accepting an award from presenter Steven Spielberg, whose latest film was about to open in a few hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cI screamed for 100% of it,\u201d she said of the Knicks game. \u201cAnd then I got home and was like, \u2018I gotta stop screaming\u2019\u2026 And then I got to witness the amazing performances I saw tonight. I just never stopped screaming, and so this is what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n
An insider exclusively told Page Six, \u201c\u201dShe\u2019s a huge fan of the Knicks and really wants to be there to support them,\u201d an insider told us. Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift attends the Songwriters Hall Of Fame 55th Annual Induction And Awards Gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. FilmMagic<\/p>\n
Swift did not mention that she\u2019d also arrived at Zero Bond earlier that morning at about 1a.m. flanked by Este and Alana Haim in a T-shirt that read \u201cStevie Knicks.\u201d The pop star trio were seen exiting at about 3a.m.<\/p>\n
Performers at the Songwriters gala included the contempo crooner Sombr, who did a rendition of Swift\u2019s 2020 classic, \u201cCardigan\u201d and her ballad, \u201cDear John.\u201d (Sombr had also been out at Zero Bond the night before.)<\/p>\n
Spielberg said that after accepting the gig as Swift\u2019s presenter for the show, he instantly fretted because, \u201cWhat could I possibly say about Taylor Swift that has not already been said? Just thinking about how much true, false and just plain crazy stuff has been written about you boggles the mind!\u201d<\/p>\n
So the \u201cA.I. Artificial Intelligence\u201d filmmaker asked AI, ironically, if it could tell him how many words have been written about Swift, and also how many words Swift has written. Both queries apparently stumped the bot. \u201cShe is such a force that the depths of her achievements defy AI,\u201d the \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d director said.<\/p>\n
The \u201cOpalite\u201d hitmaker attended Wednesday\u2019s Knicks game alongside Alana and Este Haim (above). T.JACKSON \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n
Sombr, Taylor Swift, and Jimmy Jam at the 55th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame. Kristin Callahan\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Also honored at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala were Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins, Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart, Kiss rockers Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, Walter Afanasieff and Terry Britten and Graham Lyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift took the stage at the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday\u00a0in NYC still hoarse from cheering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[10546,88,216,211652,111421,1677],"class_list":["post-700009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-page-six-hollywood","tag-page-swift","tag-songwriters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}