5 Times Taylor Swift Saved a Life
After crashing their car last week, three girls are now crediting Taylor Swift with saving their lives. Elizabeth Dazzio was reportedly driving her sister, Caroline, and a friend home from Swift’s 1989 world tour concert in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she fell asleep at the wheel. The crash knocked Dazzio unconscious and left the other two girls trapped inside the crumpled car. “You could smell the gas and smoke,” Caroline told the Baton Rouge radio station WBRZ. “I was just thinking, We need to get out of this car.” But under the cover of night, no one could see the girls in distress—until they turned on their 1989-issued concert bracelets, which had lights that were programmed to sync to the beat of T-Swift’s tunes, to act as an emergency flare. Their ingenuity paid off: Pᴀssersby pulled the girls from the car and called for help.
Amazingly, this isn’t the first time Swifties have credited the 25-year-old singer with saving their lives. Below, four more times Taylor Swift saved a life. The time she saved Florence Welch Florence Welch was on the cover of Billboard in May and revealed that her personal struggles, at times, felt insurmountable. “I was playing gigs nonstop since I was 21. When I was left to my own devices, I realized I was f—ing everything up. I was in and out of a relationship, in and out of drinking too much.” Then, her good friend Taylor Swift came along and offered her some life-changing advice. “Taylor said that you must sing about what’s happening in your life.” Swift’s encouragement enabled Welch to tackle her personal life in her last album, Ceremonials. “It’s about being honest. This could’ve been a breakup record, but it was much more about trying to understand myself.”The time she saved a fan’s life In 2013, a thirteen-year-old South African girl took to Taylor Swift’s fan forum and wrote a post enтιтled “Taylor Saved My Life . . .” The young girl explained how Swift’s songs became her personal anthem and enabled her to overcome all her struggles. “I just want you to know that you saved my life, you truly, honestly did and I swear if it wasn’t for you and your songs, I wouldn’t be alive today.” There’s even an entire Tumblr dedicated to stories about how Taylor Swift saved her fans’ lives.
The time she became an international seatbelt spokesperson In 2014, Swift teamed up with Toyota to promote seatbelt safety. The campaign is geo-targeted to Asian countries, where the seatbelt rate is at only 25 percent. “So please,” Swift says in the video, “be safe and fasten your seatbelt.”
The time Taylor’s music helped a man to lose more than 400 pounds Ronnie Brower reached his goal weight this month after dropping 425 pounds. How did he do it? With the help of his friend, Joe Bufano, and Taylor Swift’s music. Bufano said that the tunes inspired Brower to keep moving and elevated his mood. “The only thing that would give him the energy, or something to look forward to, during his deepest, darkest times were these upbeat songs. It kept him buying into life.”
