AMAs 2019: Taylor Swift Accepts Artist of the Year Award

Taylor Swift just won another award at the 2019 AMAs! Swift took home artist of the year Sunday night at the American Music Awards. This is the fifth time the “Lover” singer has accepted the coveted prize she won in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2018. While accepting the award, Swift acknowledged her bumpy 2019.

“I really don’t have anything articulate to say. Just the fact that the last year of my life has had some of the most amazing times, and also some of just the hardest things I’ve gone through in my life and not a lot of them are things that haven’t been public,” she said, referring to her mother’s battle with cancer. “This industry is really weird where like sometimes people who do what we do feel like, as I’m sure some of you feel like this too with your lives, like you feel like your stock is either up or down and people either like you or they don’t or you’re feeling bad about yourself. ” We're not crying, you're crying.

Huge congratulations to @taylorswift13 for winning #AMAs Artist of the Year! 👏 pic. twitter. com/A0OnN7hFJm — American Music Awards (@AMAs) November 25, 2019 “I don’t know what I’m talking about other than the fact that this was just like this year for me has been a lot,” she later added.

“It’s been a lot of good, it’s been a lot of really complicated, and so on behalf of my family and me — thank you so much for being there and for caring. ” Swift, 29, also praised Halsey, who joined her earlier that night to perform “Shake It Off” and seemingly took a jab at the Grammy Awards while accepting the award for favorite pop/rock song for “Without Me. ” Check out PEOPLE’s full AMAs coverage to get the latest news on one of music’s biggest nights. “I don’t even know what I’m saying because like literally speech of the whole night goes to Halsey,” she said about the “Graveyard” singer.

“The winner of the whole evening for that speech. ” Swift was also honored with the artist of the decade award and won favorite pop/rock album for Lover. Swift broke the record for winning the most AMAs, beating out Michael Jackson when she was awarded favorite pop/rock album for Lover.

““Any of the artists, or really anyone in this room wants, is to create something that will last.”