Taylor Swift once said women in pop are discarded in their 30s. Now she's 36 and bigger than ever.

""I get very depressed about pop culture's obsession with youth culture," Swift continues. "We designate extremely young people to be the ones who have to tell us where culture is going, and the idea that an artist had, in my case, the privilege of developing - to the point where you're in your 30s and you know yourself a bit more, and then you were able to make the thing that they'll know you for. There's something very special about that.""

""It's a lot to process because we do exist in this society where women in entertainment are discarded in an elephant graveyard by the time they're 35," she says. "Everyone's a shiny new toy for like, two years. The female artists that I know of have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male artists. They have to. Or else you're"

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour spanned 21 countries and grossed over $2 billion across a two-year run. She described the tour as the pinnacle and most important work of her career. She expressed frustration with pop culture's focus on youth and emphasized the significance of having the privilege to develop as an artist into her 30s. Swift recalled fearing that stardom might end by 35 and pointed to industry patterns that discard women in entertainment by that age, noting that female artists often reinvent themselves far more frequently than male artists.

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