{"id":139180,"date":"2025-10-22T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139180\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:06:13","slug":"taylor-swift-gushes-about-90s-popstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139180\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Gushes About 90s Popstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2025\/10\/22\/taylor-swift-wedding-guest-list-blake-lively\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong> recently caught attention gushing over a \u201990s pop star. A couple of days ago, <strong>Backstreet Boys<\/strong> singer <strong>AJ McLean<\/strong> posted a video on Instagram jamming to a track. It turned out to be a mashup of his boy band\u2019s 1997 hit \u201cEverybody\u201d and Swift\u2019s 2025 song, \u201cElizabeth Taylor.\u201d As the reel took over the internet, the 35-year-old soloist noticed it and couldn\u2019t hold back her excitement as she commented on AJ\u2019s clip enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift and AJ McLean\u2019s collaboration seemed to be a dream come true for all \u201990s kids and Swifties. Recently, the Backstreet Boys member uploaded a video in which he was seen lip-syncing and jamming to a mashup. The track consisted of the newly engaged musician\u2019s vocals over the boy band\u2019s instrumental.<\/p>\n<p>In the caption, AJ wrote, \u201cCome on now you know one of us had to! @taylorswift!\u201d Following that, the \u201cLover\u201d hitmaker responded, \u201cOH HI AJ OH MY GOD.\u201d His mention and her enthusiastic comment have received a positive response from fans. While Swift\u2019s remark received over 146K likes at the time of writing, the post garnered over 3.5 million views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, viewers shared their excitement as one user said, \u201cOne step closer to this collab happening IRL.\u201d Another stated, \u201cMY FAVORITE BOYBAND AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE POP STARS?! we need this colab asap!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the song \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d is one of the tracks included in the Grammy winner\u2019s new album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d During a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c7EJNq0sUmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Z100 radio<\/a> interview, the global pop sensation explained the meaning behind the song. She said that she wanted to express her \u201cemotions\u201d and her \u201cissues with fame\u201d by \u201ccosplaying the life\u201d of the Hollywood legend, Elizabeth Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is always someone that I\u2019ve looked up to as being this very glamorous, very beloved, but for some reason a polarizing figure \u2014 which, [I\u2019ve] found myself in that place, too,\u201d Swift added. Her \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d album was released worldwide on October 3 with 12 songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift recently caught attention gushing over a \u201990s pop star. A couple of days ago, Backstreet Boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[82300,6024,18,117,19,17,3521,41053,337,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-139180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-aj-mclean","9":"tag-backstreet-boys","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-lifestyle-news","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-taylor-swift"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}