Taylor Swift: Time Named Her 2023’s ‘Person of the Year’

People dubbed Taylor Swift as 2023's "Most Intriguing" person. And today, Time magazine is giving her the high honor of naming her 2023's "Person of the Year." The publication calls her an "extraordinary storyteller" and noted that she redeems herself time and time again. "I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,” she says in the feature story. "I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away." Now at 33 years old, the award-winning singer-songwriter feels like she is experiencing the "breakthrough moment" of her career all over again. "For the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that.”

The "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer's cultural, critical, and commercial success this year alone is what landed her Time's Person of the Year title. Time journalist Sam Lansky stated that 2023 was the year the billionaire pop star perfected her craft. He referred to her as the "master storyteller of the modern era." Swift, of course, had an incredibly successful year: from her Eras Tour, to her re-released music, to her concert film. Universities even began studying Swift and her songwriting. Swift knows this time is a peak, but she couldn't be prouder or happier than she's "ever felt." The highly decorated artist adds this is the best place she's been in as an artist. In the article, Swift asked Lansky: "Are you not entertained?"

Getting to this place of harmony with her past took work. Swift explains there is a dramatic irony to the success of her tour. “It’s not lost on me that the two great catalysts for this happening were two horrendous things that happened to me,” Swift says. “The first was getting canceled within an inch of my life and sanity,” she says plainly. “The second was having my life’s work taken away from me by someone who hates me.”