I have been a TSwift fan since I was in 6th grade and jammed to Teardrops on My Guitar on the reg. She was everything that I wanted to be; I looked up to her so much. Eight years have passed since Teardrops on My Guitar was my top played song on my iPod shuffle, and I look up to her just as much, if not more. Her kind heart and positive spirit is something that I strive for in my life. I love how she is one of the most famous people in the entire world, and is such a good influence on young people. There are too many celebrities that use their fame in a negative way, and don't make the world a better place when they have the ability to. Taylor Swift does make a difference, and that is why I have so much respect for her. (These are all reasons I love her besides the fact that her songs are so relatable and allow for constant dance parties.)
1989 was my third time seeing Taylor Swift in concert, and my sister and I were determined to meet her. We knew that her mom picked people throughout the concert to meet her after the show, and wanted to get noticed. We made light up 1989 signs that were cut out of reflective pasteboard material and wire battery powered christmas lights.
We hoped that with this killer sign we would be more noticeable. We also decided to make shirts, just in case we did actually meet her. You will see the shirts in the pictures at the end, but they said "I (cat face in place of a heart) TS" and under it said 1989 world tour. Taylor Swift has two cats that she is obsessed with so we thought is was only appropriate to have them printed on our shirts. We also wrapped ourselves with glow sticks -- well, we attempted.
I went to the concert with my mom, my sister and my friend Emily. We got to the Century Link and literally everybody had signs, huge costumes, light up shirts and pants and headbands, literally anything you could think of. I remember saying "Yep well at least we tried", before we even got to our seats. It was insane. Everybody wanted it just as bad if not more. We got to our seats, which were in section 104 row 3, and started trying to make ourselves more noticeable with glow sticks. Like I said earlier, I failed at this attempt, but Jessica and Emily killed it in this department. Vance Joy came on stage and we all turned our signs on in hopes that someone would see them. He is so talented and was a great start to the night. Not too much later, Taylor Swift finally came on stage. Everyone in our group knew every single word of every song she sings, so we sang and danced the entire night, kind of forgetting about Loft 89. We were just having fun and dancing and singing and so freaking happy that we were in the same building as TSwift. Right when all of us put the Loft in the back of our heads is when the most unreal experience of my life happened.
I don't remember what song she was in the middle of singing when I spotted her mom walking toward us, but I will never forget anything else about that moment. I am singing and dancing and all of a sudden I see her mom and like four security guards looking at our group. Her mom is laughing at us because my sister and I are freaking out -- we knew what this meant. This meant we were going to meet Taylor Swift. She walks up to our row, comes up to us and asks, "have any of you every met Taylor?" We all said no and she made us pinky promise that we haven't. I think I hugged her like 4 times. I was in complete shock. She gave us a yellow piece of paper telling us what we were supposed to do and gave us each wristbands that said loft 89 with the date. I took a quick selfie with her before she went off to make 18 other people's nights.
From that moment on, the rest of the concert is a blur. I know I have said it a million times, but I was in complete shock. I have talked about meeting Taylor Swift to so many people for so long, but I never actually thought it would happen. I seriously could not believe that I was going to meet her, the whole thing felt like a huge dream.
When the concert ended, we waited in section 104 until everyone else in the arena left, so the only people who were still there were the people who were going to meet her. There were 22 of us. We had to fill out a form on an iPad saying who we were. The girl running it told us the rules. She told us that we were allowed to take photographs of the room when we got in there until Taylor Swift came in. When she came in, we had to put our phones away. We could only get one picture taken of the group, and no individual pictures. Each of us were to get one autograph. And Taylor would come around to each group and talk to us for a little bit. After all of the rules were said, we were taken backstage into the room. The room had pizza and cookies and pop (no wonder TS is my fav), a couch with a Loft 89 sign over it, a photo booth, and a huge TV that played different music videos. We were in there for probably 30 minutes before she came in. I was so nervous about what I was going to say, what I was going to do, etc. I did not want to be one of those girls that was freaking out and crying and such. I wanted to be normal -- which is hard when you are talking to TAYLOR FREAKING SWIFT. Finally the girl running it told us to put our phones away because Taylor was on her way in. A few minutes later, she walks in. Just walks in to the room I am sitting in and says "hey guys!". What????? I think I died. We sat on the couch part of the room, so we were the second to last group to talk to her. In the meantime we got to talk to her mom some more which OH MY LORD she is the sweetest woman to ever walk the Earth. Seriously, she is so great. So down to earth, so nice. No wonder Taylor Swift is such a good person -- she was raised by one. Her mom told us that she loved watching us during the concert because we looked like we were having so much fun, which is why she picked us. What an amazing woman to do this for Taylor's fans.
Taylor talked to the other groups for probably 30 minutes before she got to us. When it was finally our turn, this is what took place:
She walked over and gave each of us a hug. I told her that I love how she's wearing tall heels like I was even though we are both tall to begin with. She saw our cat shirts and said that she loved them and they made her miss the cats, which were in the hotel she was staying at. She then said that she thinks that I am a little bit taller than her, which never happens. She asked if I was athletic and I said no, which she responded with telling the story about how she tried to play volleyball and it did not work out well, even though everyone thinks it would have gone great since she's so tall. SAME GIRL SAME. We bonded over being blessed with nonathletic height. I told her that I danced, (or maybe my mom told her that) and she said that was so non stereotypical because of our long limbs, and told us how awkward she was at dancing because of her long extremities. I then proceeded to kind of trip a little backwards (leave it to me) and I was like, "yep, see right there, obviously can't play sports." and she said "Oh no that was all part of your bit, it's fine." She saw our posters we made and said that she was really impressed with our electrical work that went into it. She complimented my sisters hair color. She then signed something for each of us, and asked us if we wanted to take a picture doing a cat pose or if we wanted to hug it out. We chose hug it out. After the picture was taken she gave us all another hug before she left. When she was walking away she said see you guys later, and I said "Yes, see you on instagram." And she said back to me, "Yes, and I will see you on instagram too." Dead.
I wish I could remember more details, more parts of the conversation, because I am sure I am missing things, but the whole night was a blur. I kept thinking I was dreaming, and honestly if I didn't have the picture evidence that it happened, I might still think that it was. Meeting Taylor Swift was my ultimate dream. The thing that I honestly never thought would happen in a million years. Well....obviously, dreams do come true.
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