{"id":285050,"date":"2019-12-13T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1102803"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:54:00","slug":"taylor-swift-rings-in-her-30th-birthday-with-fan-favorite-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-rings-in-her-30th-birthday-with-fan-favorite-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Rings in Her 30th Birthday With Fan-Favorite Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.854056902002\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.628029504742\">\n<p>It&#8217;s her birthday and she&#8217;ll perform if she wants to!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1102619\/every-taylor-swift-lyric-that-still-hits-us-right-in-the-feels?query=Taylor%20Swift%20birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officially 30 years old<\/a>, and what better way to ring in the start of her new decade than with a legendary performance on one of the biggest stages during the holidays at Jingle Ball in New York City. The singer took the stage at Madison Square Garden to perform a few of her greatest hit songs including &#8220;Blank Space,&#8221; &#8220;ME!,&#8221; &#8220;Lover&#8221; and of course &#8220;Welcome to New York&#8221; for thousands of adoring fans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a Christmas themed concert unless Taylor&nbsp;sang a little bit of festive music, and luckily, she added a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1099947\/taylor-swift-s-song-christmas-tree-farm-is-more-magical-than-you-ever-imagined?query=Christmas%20tree%20farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newly minted Christmas song<\/a> to her repertoire this year. She performed her new song &#8220;Christmas Tree Farm&#8221; live for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Taylor was in her element and enjoyed performing in front of the fans for her birthday celebration. She rocked out while wearing a dazzling sparkly gold dress and matching knee-high boots,&nbsp;with the swag to go with it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&#8220;We are at Madison Square Garden and just being here with you feels really special,&#8221; she told the crowd. &#8220;Especially playing here for these crowds in New York there&#8217;s really nothing like you. So I had a choice. Where would I want to spend my 30th birthday? The answer is you&#8217;re looking at it. This is the first show of my 30th year of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191113\/rs_1024x759-191213171736-1024-taylor-swift-30-birthday-jingle-ball.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Taylor Swift, 30th Birthday, Jingle Ball\" alt=\"Taylor Swift, 30th Birthday, Jingle Ball\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Manny Carabel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.472863741339\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.389145496536\">\n<p>The best part came at the end of her performance when she was honored with a &#8220;cat cake&#8221; to celebrate her birthday. Taylor was already having a pretty epic day so far, and many of her fans and closest friends have extended well-wishes on her birthday. Including her bestie and world renowned supermodel <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gigi_hadid\">Gigi Hadid<\/a><\/strong> who posted a throwback pic of the two to kick off the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My T ! An old soul celebrating 30 years here,&#8221; Gigi captioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6AwhR8H8fB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a cute pic of the pair<\/a>. &#8220;and what a phenomenon you are. It&#8217;s rare someone can be inimitable yet still make hearts feel at home with innate generosity. I love you and can&#8217;t wait to celebrate you sister !!!! HAPPY BDAY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor also spent her last day as a 29-year-old being honored at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1102450\/taylor-swift-demands-an-end-to-the-music-world-s-toxic-male-privilege-in-provocative-speech?query=Taylor%20Swift%20toxic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Billboard Women in Music event<\/a>. The singer was honored with the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1099729\/taylor-swift-speaks-out-about-not-using-her-body-as-an-exercise-of-control?query=Taylor%20Swift%20toxic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artist of the Decade Award<\/a> and gave an amazing speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>&#8220;So what does it mean to be the woman of this decade? Well, it means I&#8217;ve seen a lot. When this decade began I was 20-years-old. I had put out my self-titled debut album when I was 16\u2014the album that would become my breakthrough album, which was called Fearless,&#8221; she shared of the last ten years of her life.&nbsp;&#8220;I saw that there was a world of music beyond country music that I was really curious about. I saw pop stations play my songs &#8220;Love Story&#8221; and &#8220;You Belong With Me&#8221; for the first time, and I saw that as a female in this industry some people will always have slight reservations about you. Whether you deserve to be there, whether your male producer or co-writer is the reason for your success, or whether it was a savvy record label.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>The singer went on to call out the &#8220;toxic male privilege&#8221; in the industry and gave a speech that is sure to leave a mark on the music industry for years to come. After her birthday performance at Jingle Ball, it&#8217;s clear that this next decade will bring her to even greater heights and hopefully open more doors for women across the industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch the <i>2019: What E! Year<\/i> end-of-year special Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 10 p.m.! <i>E! News<\/i> returns Monday morning, Jan. 6 at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1102803\/taylor-swift-rings-in-30th-birthday-at-jingle-ball-in-nyc?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s her birthday and she&#8217;ll perform if she wants to!&nbsp; Taylor Swift is officially 30 years old, and what better way to ring in the start of her new decade than with a legendary performance on one of the biggest stages during the holidays at Jingle Ball in New York City. 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