Taylor Swift Loves Those ‘Drunk Taylor’ Memes As Much As You Do
The internet has a new favorite meme—at least for the moment—and it’s called Drunk Taylor.
It all started with a few videos that popped up online from a party Taylor Swift threw at Beauty & Essex in Los Angeles to celebrate “her recent music success,” according to E!. She invited the collaborators and stars of her “You Need to Calm Down” video, including Laverne Cox, Hayley Kiyoko, the Haim sisters, and RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant A’keria Davenport, to the event.
And in a few behind-the-scenes videos from the party, Swift is seen dancing around to her own music as well as Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” She’s also overheard saying, “I fckking love Cardi B” in one video—which makes us long for a collaboration project.
Now, it’s not clear if Swift is actually intoxicated, but you know how the internet is. People took in her mussed hair and carefree dance moves and the Drunk Taylor meme was born.
Naturally, the Swifties were very into this version of their favorite singer. “The hair flip is a MOOD ?????????? #drunktaylor is the cutest and makes her even more relatable which I didn’t even know was possible but apparently it is,” one person wrote. “Taylor Swift drunk shimmying is my new aesthetic,” another tweeted. Others just took the footage and ran with it in all sorts of directions.
But lest you think any of this bothered Swift, she embraced the trending topic in her own social media posts. “Threw a party to celebrate with the people who made the ME! & YNTCD videos with me- and we had so much fun that ‘Drunk Taylor’ is trending on Twitter. CHEERS. ????,” she wrote.
Swift’s next album, Lover, arrives on August 23. But at least we have all these amazing dance moves to tide us over until then.