Young girls recite Taylor Swift’s 2016 female empowerment acceptance speech for this year’s Grammy Awards Promo..

With the 59^th Annual Grammy Awards just round the corner, The Recording Academy has released a moving promo advert which is part of a Grammy’s campaign called “Believe in Music”.

The promo video shows young girls as musicians, athletes and dancers repeating the acceptance speech that Taylor Swift famously gave after winning Album of the year for ‘1989’. The moving one minute ad then finishes off with the original footage of Swift’s impassioned speech. The aim of the campaign is to celebrate the different ways music influences, inspires and strengthens us.

Taylor Swift’s speech urges everyone, especially girls, to focus and keep fighting for their dreams and not to let people side-track you or put you down. The Recording Academy said they wanted their campaign to reflect what is happening in our society and use Swift’s speech to empower and motivate.

Evan Greene, chief marketing officer at The Recording Academy said, “Music both reflects and advances culture, so we try to do the same with our annual Grammy Award brand campaigns. I think our campaigns tap into the dominant theme of what’s happening in society, and this year, The Recording Academy felt it right to highlight music’s uplifting aspects.”

The speech, which may have been seen initially as a sly dig at rapper Kanye West after he infamously rapped “I made that b***h famous” has turned into an empowering girl-power ad.

– LilahKS