Taylor Swift Sends Guitar To Viral Neighbors Playing Her Song
This is so sweet! We’ve got an update on a viral story we told you about several weeks ago.
An 8-year-old Swiftie named Madeline heard her neighbor, 26-year-old Ethan Hayes, playing guitar and was too shy to ask him to play a song. So she sent a paper airplane request for him to play “Love Story.” He did, mom got video and posted it on TikTok, and a viral moment was born that got nearly 4 million views and 500,000 likes! Taylor heard about it and just sent them signed guitars and a handwritten note saying the clip “brought the biggest smile to my face” along with a signed acoustic guitar.
Hayes also received a guitar from Swift, calling the gesture “insane.” And that moment of kindness also boosted Hayes’ music career, gaining him thousands of followers with entirely positive comments. Madeline’s mother called it hitting “the neighbor lottery” in her TikTok caption.