Taylor Swift Helps Australian Senior Citizens to ‘Shake It Off’

The theatre company posted a video thanking Swift, who is now and shall forever remain the patron saint of Australian theatre.

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A bunch of Australian acting royalty have convinced the Devine Being Taylor Swift to give them permission to “Shake It Off”.

The cast and crew of the Belvoir St Theatre production Seventeen were granted a last minute reprieve by the songstress to use her hit single Shake It Off in a show-stopping number after the publishers denied their request.

Seventeen stars the Aussie actors, who “play a group of teenagers (!) drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing (!!) their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood”.

But with time running out and a lack of funds to pay the necessary publishing fees, Anne-Louise Sarks, the Resident Director at Belvoir, took to Twitter to try to solve the problem as soon as possible.

“As I was filming, someone held up a phone to me and showed me [Swift’s] tweet, and I saw she’d said yes!”

And unlike Swift’s own dance moves in the Shake It Off film clip, it was perfectly timed.

Using the hashtag #GreyGrey4TayTay Sarks sent the word out to anyone she could think of that may be able to help, tweeting Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and trying to get word to Nicole Kidman.

After seven hours of desperate campaigning, the Swifty goddess awoke from her slumber and came through with the goods. Like no big deal.