Watch Taylor Swift deliver NYU commencement speech: “Let’s keep dancing like we’re the class of ’22′”

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Taylor Swift delivered a commencement address at New York University’s class of 2022 today (May 18).The pop star was also awarded an honorary doctorate before she gave the speech at the city’s Yankee Stadium.

Watch video footage of the speech below.“I’m 90% sure the reason I’m here is because I have a song called ’22′,” Swift joked, adding: “Last time I was in a stadium this size, I was dancing in heels and wearing a glittery leotard.

This outfit is much more comfortable.”The speech was full of references to her hit songs, as well as jokes about her doctorate.

At one point she addressed out-of-town relatives and friends of the graduates with “Let me say to you now: Welcome to New York – it’s been waiting for you.”A post shared by New York University (@nyuniversity)“I’d like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a doctor,” Swift joked at one point in her speech. “Not the type of doctor you would want around in case of an emergency, unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section.