Taylor’s Sweetest Friendships
Taylor Swift is one of the friendliest and most compassionate celebrities, and everyone in the industry wants to be her friend. Taylor’s had high-profile friendships that have lasted decades, but she’s also had lasting friendships from her personal life before she was the world’s biggest pop star.
Ed Sheeran
This is one of Swift’s most well-known friendships. These two incredible lyricists met in 2012 when Taylor asked Ed to write with her for a song that would be on her 4th studio album, RED. They wrote two songs, Run and Everything Has Changed. The second song on the album and Run became a vault track when Taylor re-released RED in 2021, when her masters were stolen from her.
Taylor then asked Ed to open for her 150.2 million-dollar-grossing RED tour. Ed opened up for Taylor 66 dates on that tour, and the two became quick friends. As an end-of-tour prank, Ed dressed up as a clown during We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, the finale song for the RED tour, and became a backup dancer on stage.
Since then, the two have consistently worked together and have remained friends for over ten years. Ed appears in two of Taylor’s music videos (Everything Has Changed (RED) and End Game (reputation) which Ed is also a featured vocalist and writer on.
Taylor is featured on a song called The Joker and The Queen from Ed’s album =. Taylor jokes that she is also the reason Ed Sheeran married his now-wife, Cherry Seaborn.
Taylor told Ed to invite Cherry to her annual 4th of July parties at her $17.75 million Watch Hill, Rhode Island house, and you could say the rest is history. Most recently, Taylor invited Ed to perform with her during the surprise song slot on the Wembley Stadium stop in London on August 15th, 2024.
Selena Gomez
This duo met in 2008, as they were both backstage at a Jonas Brothers concert. Taylor, at the time, was dating Joe Jonas, and Selena was dating Nick Jonas. Years later, Selena said during an interview that the best thing the two of them got out of those relationships was each other.
Taylor has made it a tradition to bring out Selena as a special guest on her tour. In 2011, Taylor brought Selena out during her Madison Square Garden stop of the Speak Now Tour to sing Who Says. In 2015, Taylor invited Selena out once again in 2015 during the 1989 tour to sing Selena’s song, Good For You during the L.A. stop. And, during the reputation tour in 2018, Taylor brought out Selena for the third time over the years to sing, Hands To Myself in L.A..
Taylor wrote a song about Selena Gomez, which can be found on her album, evermore. The song is titled, Dorothea. Selena attended Taylor Swift’s, The Eras Tour 2 times, bringing her little sister, Gracie in support of Taylor.
The two have called each other sisters, and fans have given them the name of Taylena because of their sweet and long lasting bond which has only gotten stronger over time.
Abigail Anderson
This might just be the most special friendship Taylor has, and it’s friendship goals for fans everywhere. Taylor and Abigail Anderson met in their freshman year of High School. Abigail has always been one of Taylor’s biggest supporters and has made appearances at award shows, in Taylor’s music videos, and also appearances on tv talk shows.
Taylor wrote a song about Abigail and is one of Taylor’s most famous songs in her discography because of its emotional lyrics and relatable message to younger fans on their first day of High School. The song is titled “Fifteen” and Abigail is even mentioned in the song by name. The song came out in 2008 and it is on Taylor’s second studio album, Fearless.
Abigail has appeared in multiple music videos of Taylor’s, “I’m Only Me When I’m With You”, “Fifteen”, “Picture to Burn”, “22”, “New Romantics”, and also appears in the 2019 Netflix documentary, “Miss Americana”. In 2008, Abigail appeared alongside Taylor on the Ellen Degenerous show when Ellen surprised the two friends with Justin Timberlake coming out to meet them. Abigail was also in the season of MTV’s Once Upon a Prom, where Taylor went to prom with a senior from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Hayley Williams
Frontwoman of rock band, Paramore and Taylor became quick friends in 2011 and the two have been friends and collaborators ever since. Hayley Williams appeared in the Bad Blood music video alongside dozens of other famous friends of Taylor.
The two met in Nashville as young artists and began to support each other and became each others first friends in the industry who got what the other was going through.
In 2022, Taylor announced that Hayley’s band, Paramore, would be opening up for her on the first two U.S. tour dates for The Eras Tour and the sole opening act for all of the UK/European tour dates on the same tour.
When Taylor announced the release of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) on June 5th, 2023, Hayley Williams was featured singing on a vault track called, Castles Crumbling. The two songstresses performed the duet during Taylor’s London stop of the Eras Tour on June 22nd, 2024.
Ashley Avignone
Taylor and Ashley met through mutual friend, Emma Stone, about 17 years ago. Avignone is a fashion and interior designer and an influencer. In 2010, Taylor, Emma, and Ashley were photographed on the Red Carpet for Stone’s film, Easy A.
Ashley starred in Taylor’s 2013 music video for 22 alongside other close friends of Taylor. Ashley’s name can also be found in the secret message for the song inside the RED lyric booklet that comes with the CD.
Most recently, the two have been spotted multiple times cheering on Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, at Kansas City Chiefs Games. In December 2024, Ashley was one of the attendees at Taylor’s surprise birthday party thrown by Kelce. Taylor, later that month, celebrated Ashley’s 40th birthday.
HAIM
Frequent collaborators and also best friends. The band of sisters opened for select shows on Taylor’s 1989 tour, which happened in 2015, and a forever friendship formed.
HAIM is featured on Taylor’s song, no body, no crime from her 2020 album, evermore. And Taylor is featured on their 2021 song, Gasoline. The three sisters, Este, Danielle, and Alana, make a cameo in Taylor’s 2022 music video for Bejeweled as the evil stepsisters.
The sister trio opened up for Taylor a third time on The Eras Tour for select dates, where they performed no body, no crime with Taylor. Taylor was a surprise guest at a HAIM show in London in 2022, where the friends performed Gasoline for the first time ever with Taylor live.
HAIM in frequently spotted in many photos with Taylor from award shows, parties, and dinners. The girls even took a trip to Catalina with Lorde, Jaime King, and Gracie Gold in 2015.
December 17th, 2023, Alana (the youngest HAIM sister) was spotted alongside Ashley Avignone and Brittany Mahomes with Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs Game.
Honorable Mentions
What started out as a collaborative friendship turned into an amazing and long friendship. Jack Antonoff and Taylor started working together on Taylor’s eccentric pop album, 1989. Jack worked on songs from that album, such as Out of the Woods, and I Wish You Would. Later in 2024, when Taylor released 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Jack produced all the Vault tracks.
The two have performed live together at award shows, too, such as the 2021 Grammys, where they were accompanied by fellow genius, Aaron Dessner. Dessner appeared in The Long Pond Sessions, a documentary directed by Taylor Swift, where Swift, Antonoff, and Dessner played the entirety of the folklore album where they orignally wrote it.
This friendship spans over a decade since the two first met in 2014. GiGi Hadid appeared in Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood music video and attended numerous shows of Taylor. The two are seen coming and going from restaurants in New York frequently.
It has been said that Taylor even made Hadid’s daughter, Khai, a handmade blanket when she was born.
What started as a professional relationship turned into an adorable friendship. Taylor took Shawn Mendes out with her on the 1989 tour in 2015, and later he came out as a surprise guest in Los Angeles in 2018 during Taylor’s reputation tour.
Mendes wrote a tribute to Swift when she had been put on TIMES list of the 100 most influential people, Mendes calling her “a wonderful person”. He has also come to Taylor for advice when it comes to music, performing, and the entertainment industry.
In 2019, Taylor released a remix of her ballad, Lover, in which Shawn Mendes sang on and even wrote his own verse.
