Trevor Noah tackled the challenging task of hosting the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, holding his own and earning the ultimate stamp of approval.
In a heartwarming backstage moment captured and shared on TikTok, Taylor Swift greeted the 39-year-old comedian with a hug, praising him for his successful night hosting the Grammy Awards for the fourth consecutive year. She commended the former Daily Show host, saying, “You did a beautiful job tonight, you did.”
“I don’t know how you do it,” Swift, 34, added.
After greeting Noah, she embraced another person standing beside him who she called “the best.”
“I’ve seen you running around all night, I don’t know how you do it,” she told him.
In his opening monologue, Noah gave a shoutout to Swift as she entered the Crypto.com Arena a few minutes late, accompanied by an entourage including Jack Antonoff and his wife Margaret Qualley.
“Are you seeing what’s happening right now as Taylor Swift moves through the room?” Noah asked the crowd. “The local economy around those tables improves. Can you see you get this magic right now? Look at this magic. Lionel Richie, now Lionel Wealthy. Look at that.”
Noah added a playful touch by poking fun at the camera time Swift receives during NFL games while cheering on her boyfriend Travis Kelce. He humorously quipped that every time the “Cruel Summer” singer is mentioned throughout the night, the cameras will focus on someone else — specifically, someone involved in football.
“I think it is so unfair how NFL fans have been complaining about the cameras cutting to Taylor Swift. Right? Like she’s controlling the cameras at the games.”
“I’m gonna get revenge. Every time someone says, Taylor Swift. I’m going to cut the cameras to someone who plays football,” he continued, and the cameras panned to Terry Crews.
The night was monumental for Swift, making history with her fourth Grammy win for Album of the Year for “Midnights” in 2022. She now stands as the only artist to achieve this feat, having previously won in the same category for “Fearless” in 2010, “1989” in 2016, and “Folklore” in 2021.
“I would love to tell you that this is the best moment in my life. But I feel this happy when I’ve finished a song or when I’ve cracked the code to a bridge that I love or when I’m shot listing a music video, or when I’m rehearsing with my dancers or my band or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show,” she said, teasing the 2024 start of The Eras Tour in Japan on Feb. 7.
“For me, the award is the work. All I want to do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much. It makes me so happy. It makes me unbelievably blown away that it makes some people who voted for this award too. All I want to do is keep doing this. So thank you so much for allowing me to do what I love so much.”
Earlier in the night, Swift secured another win for Best Pop Vocal Album and made a significant announcement during her acceptance speech: her 11th studio album, titled “The Tortured Poets Department,” is set to release on April 19.
Swift took to Instagram minutes later, unveiling the album’s cover art and sharing handwritten song lyrics on a piece of paper. The lyrics included lines such as “And so I enter into evidence / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink.”
Underneath the lyrics, Swift wrote, “All’s fair in love and poetry … Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department.”
