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Taylor Swift received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University on Wednesday and delivered the commencement address at the 2022 graduation ceremony at Yankee Stadium. In her speech, the Grammy winner joked, “I’m 90 percent sure that the reason I’m here is because I have a song called ’22.” Swift also poked fun at herself, saying, “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.”
Below is local TV coverage followed by the complete address she gave.