The fan who Taylor Swift stood up for during her latest Eras Tour performance on Saturday has taken to TikTok to share her side of the story.
On Sunday night the fan, whose name is Caitlin Gabel, stitched a TikTok to explain what was going on in the crowd to make Mumma Swift stop belting out “Bad Blood” mid-song to yell at a security guard.
“Basically the guard had been harassing our group all night,” Caitlin explained.
“He just kept telling us not to touch the rail and anytime we did anything he was like on top of us. If we were dancing, having fun, he didn’t like it. And Taylor noticed that we were having fun and he didn’t like it and she didn’t like it.
“And then he basically got escorted out and they offered us free tickets for the night. It wasn’t this big crazy thing. It was just a bunch of girls having a good time and he didn’t want us to have fun,” she concluded.
Big kudos to Taylor for not only noticing this shit happening while she’s putting her entire swiftussy into her performance, but defending her fans without missing a damn beat.What an absolute pro.
@caityg33 #stitch with @Sonya (Eras 4/29) Its me, hi, im the problem @kellyinglis326 @Taylor Swift #erastour #lincolnfinancialfield #taylorswift #eras #badbloodtaylorsversion ♬ original sound – Caitlin Gabell
ICYMI: Footage emerged online of Taylor Swift pausing mid-performance to seemingly protect a fan from a security guard during her Philadelphia, Pennsylvania gig on Saturday night.
Miss Swizzle stopped singing “Bad Blood” and started yelling and pointing towards the audience. Quite an apt song, if I’m being honest.
“She’s fine,” the singer said.
“She wasn’t doing anything. Hey, stop! Stop!”
Swift then turned around and sashayed across the stage without missing a beat. Good for her!
Not sure what happened during Bad Blood but it was enough Taylor needed to get involved… #erastour #taylorswift #tserastourphilly pic.twitter.com/JcJMmi0dOJ
— Nicolle Bradford (@NicolleBradford) May 14, 2023
Twitter user Cheyenne (@jackandtaylor), who attended the show, claimed Swift was yelling at a security guard who kept “putting their hands” on fans to move them away from the barricade.
“Taylor was yelling at a security guard because they fully kept putting their hands on us to physically push us off the barricade instead of just telling us to move,” she said.
“It’s really scary how every single man had a power trip towards every single women [sic] who was standing on the barricades. All the men didn’t hesitate to touch us to move us and they were very, very aggressive when they were doing it.
“We weren’t throwing anything, we weren’t screaming anything insane, she was fully coming over to dance and sing with us and it resulted in security being extremely aggressive for no reason.”
https://twitter.com/jackandtaylor/status/1657590804951494658
Another fan in the audience, Briana Layfield, shared footage of the incident from another angle to TikTok.
“Hey Taylor Swift, THANK YOU from all of us on the floor for yelling at that security guard. He was a pain in the ass the entire night and the fact that this happened during ‘Bad Blood’ made it even better,” she captioned the vid.
@brilayfield hey @Taylor Swift THANK YOU from all of us on the floor for yelling at that security guard. he was a pain in the ass the entire night and the fact that this happened during #badblood made it even better 😆 PS show was PHENOMENAL 🫶🏻 Philly night 2 #taylorswift #theerastour #tswift #youneedtocalmdown #fyp #badbloodtaylorsversion
Biiiiiiig fucking yikes. Security calm down for five goddamn seconds challenge.
Swifties were popping off on Twitter celebrating their queen for reportedly sticking it to security mid-song.
“Someone said she was yelling at a security [sic] for being too aggressive with a fan? The ‘stop, she wasn’t doing anything’ makes sense then. If that’s true I think it is SO SWEET of her to be this attentive and defensive over the fans,” one said.
“Whatever happened, I remain impressed by Taylor’s confidence and professionalism—to be able to just… do that mid-performance, and then go back to performing. You have to know what you’re doing like the back of your hand and have faith in everything on stage. She is a Performer™,” another said.
“SHE WASNT [sic] DOING ANYTHING – imagine Taylor standing up for you,” said a third.
Others were basically like, “if Taylor Swift yelled at me in front of zillions of people I would melt into a puddle and never regain my human form” and you know what? Same. I’m honestly quite neutral about the lass (no offence to any Swifties reading this) but if I copped that spray I’d have no choice but to move to Europe and change my name.
“I would hate to be the security guard that got in trouble with her,” one said.
“Imagine getting yelled by [sic] Taylor Swift in front of 70k people. Embarrassing,” another said.
Waiting with bated breath to see if Swift’s supposed beau Matty Healy says anything about the matter. Not because he should (if anything, I prefer it when that man keeps his trap shut) but because it’ll simply add more spice to the dating rumours stew. Why should we stop at blurry ass pics of them holding hands, you know?
