Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ Quoted By Australia’s John Elferink After U.S. Teens Call Her A Hero

While her collaboration song “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar is on top of the charts, Taylor Swift was recently declared not only a hero by three teenagers in the United States but also a philosopher by a politician in Australia.

In an interview with WBRZ News 2, Elizabeth Dazzio told that she recently attended a concert of Swift with her sister and friend, who are both teenagers. When she was driving the two home from the concert, she fell asleep and wrecked near the I-110/Scenic Highway exit.

The car accident mangled the car and trapped her two teenage companions while leaving her unconscious at the time. Since two of three phones in the car were dead, the teenagers tried to find the third one but failed to do so. None of the passing cars stopped so the girls used bracelets from Swift’s concert as emergency flares to catch the attention of people driving by.

Programmed and synced to the beat of the music, the bracelets eventually caught the attention of a woman who said she knew someone was in trouble upon seeing the lights. With another man, the woman helped pull the girls out and called for help.

Days after the teens called Swift their hero, a politician in Australia referred to the “Bad Blood” singer as a philosopher. During a parliamentary hearing on June 3, Wednesday, a Northern Territory attorney general, John Elferink, quoted Swift's hit song “Shake It Off.”

Tackling questions about mandatory alcohol treatment programs, Elferink said, “I'm a very sensitive person, but I turn to the great American philosopher T-Swift. Some players are going to play, play, play. Others are gonna fake, fake, fake. Well I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake. Shake it off.”

“Shake It Off” is the lead single of Swift’s fifth studio album “1989,” which was released through Big Machines Records on Oct. 27, 2014. The album has several chart-topping songs including “Blank Space” and “Style.”

The most recent song from Swift’s “1989” album is “Bad Blood,” which is currently the number one song at the Billboard Hot 100 after dethroning Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth, a tribute song to the late “Fast and Furious” actor Paul Walker.

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