Taylor Swift didn’t attend the iHeartRadio Awards in person yesterday, but she did make a virtual appearance to accept the Tour of the Century award for the Eras Tour. And while she gave her speech, fans noticed a major Easter egg.
Swift had on a snake necklace. The snake, of course, was a major symbol during the singer’s Reputation era. Swift has worn Easter eggs here and there teasing Reputation (Taylor’s Version), but this is her biggest hint that the project is coming up next. The rest of Swift’s outfit was relatively preppy: She wore a black top with a Miu Miu pleated tartan miniskirt and a Cartier watch.
The speech marks Swift’s first extended remarks since her Eras Tour ended in December. She spoke about how she has done “a lot of processing” during her time off and expressed her gratitude for the support Swifties have given her for decades. She said:
This is amazing. Hi! Thank you so much to iHeart, and thank you so much mainly to the fans. Tour of the Century, I really can’t tell you how much this means to me, because I accept this on behalf of all my tour mates, all my fellow performers, my band, everyone who toured with us, our crew. You know, this is actually the two-year anniversary of the first show of the Eras Tour, so I’ve been doing a lot of processing since I’ve been off the road these last few months. And you know, people often say that sometimes the greatest challenges in life end up being something you’re so proud of or end up being the most gratifying feeling in the end, if you can rise to the occasion, and this tour was honestly the most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my life. It’s a three-and-a-half hour show, more shows than I had ever done on a tour, and it really was the most gratifying thing I’ve ever done. I think about that tour constantly. I’m so proud of it. The only reason I was able to take on those challenges, among others—the ambition of the production, the length of the show, the amount of shows, all the different countries we played in—that’s all because of the fans. To the fans, you made these songs for the last couple decades into what they became so that we could do a three-and-a-half hour set list. You had the passion and the generosity to care about traveling to see us on tour in all these places all over the world. It blows my mind. I’m never going to stop being grateful for it, and I appreciate this more than you know. Thank you so much for honoring this tour and to kind of take us back, I want to just revisit the very first night of this tour and give you an exclusive performance from the first night of the Eras Tour two years ago.
