Taylor Swift and Her New BFFs Have a Texas ‘T’ Party
Taylor Swift has once again made someone's day. Or, in the latest case, she made the day of 15 to 20 of her fans.
According to the Lufkin Daily News, recent Lufkin, Texas high school graduate Claire Brody and her friend Claire Cumbie were just two of the nearly two dozen super fans hand-picked by Taylor's mother, Andrea -- from the 19,000 in attendance at the Toyota Center in Houston, last week -- to join Taylor and her band for a "T Party."
Taylor's T Party -- a post-show event famous among fans for its exclusivity -- is set up to resemble a get-together with friends, where Taylor treats her fans to pizza, soft drinks and video games, while they lounge on couches and get to chat with the country superstar.
Claire Brody, who takes voice and piano lessons (both her songbooks are Taylor Swift), attend Taylor's concert in Houston courtesy of her parents, who gave her tickets to the sold-out show as a graduation gift. "I look up to [Taylor] as a performer," she says. " I would sit in my room and watch YouTube videos and pretend that one day I could see her perform."
It took over 20 hours of work and a giant neon cupcake to impress the powers-that-be to snag that special invitation to the T Party. Claire says her idea was to make some spectacular posters. "I knew we had to make the best of our night," she notes, "so I thought, why don't we do a huge cupcake and put 'T-cake' on it in neon?"
During Taylor's set, a woman with a clipboard came up to the girls and asked if they had ever met Taylor Swift before. The woman explained to them that Taylor's mother, Andrea, had liked the posters and hand-picked them to attend the T Party.
"We started screaming bloody murder," says Claire, who immediately sent a text to her mom -- all in caps -- saying, "WE'RE GOING TO THE T PARTY!'
After the concert, the girls were ushered backstage where they happily posed for a picture with Taylor and got an autograph. Taylor signed both girl's cowboy boots, and while she mingled with the other fans, the two Claires chatted with the band members and Andrea Swift.
The girls were deeply impressed by Taylor's devotion to her fans, as she even took the time to look at the gifts the Lufkin girls had brought: homemade headbands and decorated cooking utensils.
Now that she's met Taylor, Claire says she feels a special kinship to this "normal" superstar. "The more I learned about her, I realized she's such a normal girl," she says. "She's been to a high school prom, she knows the stuff we go through."
Taylor's Fearless tour, with Kellie Pickler and Gloriana, hits Gilette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., on Saturday, June 5.
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