Taylor Swift DJ’d a Party at Paul McCartney’s House
Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney recently took their friendship to the next level. The Beatle hosted a party at his home that featured one of the most star-studded guest lists of all time. Attendees included musicians, talk show hosts, and movie stars. Austin Butler, who was at the party, spoke about what it was like to attend and watch Swift control the music.
Taylor Swift controlled the music at a party thrown by Paul McCartney
In a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Butler and Kimmel spoke about a party they’d attended at McCartney’s house.
“Last time I saw you was at maybe the craziest party I’ve ever been to in my whole life,” Kimmel said, adding, “It was one of those insane parties where like Tom Hanks is going, ‘Oh my God, can you believe who’s here?’”
People like Meryl Streep, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, and Taylor Swift were in attendance that night. Butler recalled that Swift took control of the music.
“Yeah, she was DJing at one point,” Butler said. “She’s DJing parties now.”
Unfortunately, Butler and Kimmel did not dig into the type of music Swift was playing at the party.
Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney have a friendly relationship
Swift’s presence at McCartney’s party is not all that surprising, as the two have had a friendly relationship for years. Swift is good friends with McCartney’s daughter, Stella. In 2020, Swift and McCartney met up for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians series. Before they began talking, Swift asked McCartney to write and sign lyrics from her favorite Beatles song, “Blackbird.”
“He makes a joke about me selling it, and I laugh because it’s something I know I’ll cherish for the rest of my life,” she wrote. “That’s around the time when we start talking about music.”
Swift later revealed that she framed the line, “Take these broken wings and learn to fly,” and hung it in her bathroom.
Austin Butler and Bruce Springsteen discussed Elvis at the party
As Swift kept the music flowing, Butler talked to some of the other artists at the party. Springsteen eagerly talked to Butler, who played Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrman’s Elvis, about the time he hopped the gates at Graceland.
“I had heard this sort of mythical story, and then to hear it from him, of him being a huge Elvis fan and then hopping the gates at Graceland,” Butler said. “He wanted to give Elvis a song. He somehow evaded the dogs — he’s a fast runner. I’m so bummed I didn’t get to hear that song.”
In 1976, Springsteen had a taxi driver bring him to Graceland after a concert and made the split-second decision to hop the gate.
“I saw there was some lights on in the house, ’cause you could see the house wasn’t far up the drive,” Springsteen said on The Graham Norton Show. “Gates were locked, [there was a] stone wall, and I looked at Steve [Van Zandt], I said, ‘Steve, I’m going in.’”
He ran up to the front door and was about to knock when a security guard stopped him. He informed the young musician that Elvis was out of town.
“Okay, well, can you tell [Elvis] … that Bruce Springsteen was here,” Springsteen replied. “And he may not know who that is, but I was just on the cover of Time and Newsweek [magazines].”
He said that this was the closest he ever came to meeting Elvis.
