Taylor Swift Proves She’s the Ultimate Fangirl After AJ McLean Shares Backstreet Boys Remix of Her Song

Taylor Swift might be, well, Taylor Swift, but astatine the extremity of the day, she’s conscionable arsenic overmuch of a fangirl arsenic the remainder of us.

After AJ McLean posted an Instagram video of himself listening to a remix of her opus “Elizabeth Taylor” mashed up with the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” the popular superstar couldn’t incorporate her excitement successful the comments. “OH HI AJ OH MY GOD,” she wrote Monday (Oct. 20).

“Come connected present you cognize 1 of america had to! @taylorswift !” McLean had captioned the clip.

“Elizabeth Taylor” appears connected Swift’s caller album, The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped Oct. 3. The LP did historic numbers in its archetypal week, debuting astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 with a grounds 4.002 cardinal equivalent medium units sold.

“I person 4 cardinal convey you’s I privation to nonstop to the fans, and 4 cardinal reasons to consciousness adjacent much arrogant of this medium than I already was,” she reacted to the feat successful a connection astatine the time. “Thank you for going retired to observe this task successful the movie theaters, investing successful vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, speechmaking the poems I wrote wrong the packaging, and immersing yourselves successful The Life of a Showgirl. I’ll cherish this feeling forever.”

A existent millennial astatine heart, Swift has agelong been unfastened astir her emotion for ’90s lad bands. In 2023, she freaked retired when the members of *NSYNC reunited connected stage, soon aft which the radical presented her with champion popular video for eight-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 azygous “Anti-Hero.”

“I’m not doing good pivoting from this to this,” she said successful her acceptance speech, gesturing to Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, JC Chasez and Lance Bass lined up down her. “Like, I had your dolls … are you doing something? What’s going to hap now?”

McLean has besides antecedently shared his emotion for Swift. “She is, by far, successful my opinion, 1 of the astir grounded, humble performers ever,” he said of the 14-time Grammy victor connected the Getting Grilled With Curtis Stone podcast successful 2024. “She’s met my oldest [daughter] 3 times. The past clip she met her, she remembered her sanction … arsenic a dada alone, [that] catapulted her into the stratosphere for me.”

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