Taylor Swift Warns Against ‘Immediate Feedback’ on the Internet During Her 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards Speech

As she accepted the award for Artist of the Year at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards tonight, Taylor Swift chose not to further spotlight her hit album The Life of a Showgirl but, instead, offered some revealing advice to emerging artists. Perhaps her most poetic quote of the night soon followed: “I’m a firm believer that anything you feed your mind, it will internalize,” she told the crowd. “Anything you feed the internet, it will attempt to kill. And I don’t want that for your dreams.” Swift arrived at the ceremony this evening with nine nominations, and by the time...