Taylor Swift was awarded the Taylor Swift Award at the Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) Pop Awards to honour her “artistic talent and influence”.
This is the second time in BMI history that an award in an artist’s name has been presented to the artist themselves. The first time was back in 1990 to honour Michael Jackson.
Addressing the audience, the pop-star said, “I’m really super relieved that BMI decided to give me the Taylor Swift Award because if they had chosen someone else to give the Taylor Swift Award to, I’d be kind of bummed about it.
“We live in an age where everybody has the ability to see your show online before they come if they want to,” she said, adding, “If you surprise them with a special guest, they actually get to feel that very unique in 2016 feeling of being surprised by something.”
