--- title: Taylor Swift Song Promps Wild UK Response, Seismic Activity description: Taylor Swift’s crowd showed more than just enthusiasm during her three shows in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/6988264/taylor-swift-uk-tour-seismic-activity-recorded-fan-expert-comment/ author: Rebecca Schneid article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-06-13T17:10:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:43:23.851Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Taylor Swift's U.K. Crowd Generates Seismic Activity. 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One Key Song Prevails twitter:description: Taylor Swift’s crowd showed more than just enthusiasm during her three shows in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the weekend. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec8922eaa699f744/698a57c69862f52753895cf3/TSWIFT_edinburgh.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 07:27 video:published: 2023-12-06 section: entertainment topics: Taylor Swift fans, friendship bracelets, concert community, fan-run business, security work at concerts, marriage proposal, costume for music video, women's empowerment, stadium concerts, fan stories genre: profile, feature tones: warm, celebratory, emotional, admiring emotions: joy (high), love (high), belonging (high), gratitude (medium) sentiment: positive audience: Taylor Swift fans, music fans, general audience, concertgoers people: Taylor Swift products: friendship bracelets transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Taylor Swift's U.K. Crowd Generates Seismic Activity. 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Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse._ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary The video presents fans' accounts of how Taylor Swift's music and concerts shaped their lives. Speakers describe a community built around her songs, including friendship bracelet trading and a bracelet-making business that grew from a concert. Others describe working a concert as security, creating a costume for a music video, and planning a marriage proposal at a show. Fans say her music made them feel less alone and that she was present through their hardest and best days. ## Key points - Fans say Swift's music made them feel they were not alone and not crazy for how they felt, and that they grew up together with her. (00:16) - Exchanging handmade friendship bracelets is a big part of the tour, and the practice goes back to the Taylor song 'You're on Your Own, Kid'. (00:32) - A group had about 200 bracelets made for the tour, found it was too many to trade, and decided to sell the extras. (00:49) - After the group posted bracelets for sale, they woke to over 300 bracelets on order, and sales reached $19,000 when they ran the numbers. (01:12) - The bracelet-business friends live in two states, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the business keeps them in touch and meeting up to trade bracelets. (01:50) - A security guard met at the reputation tour told one fan about the job, and years later the fan worked a concert on the floor beside the stage edge. (02:14) - Working the floor, the security worker saw fans' faces light up when Swift came near, and asked audience members to text photos of him with her in the background. (02:39) - One fan planned to propose at a Taylor Swift concert, working out logistics, the ring, and exactly which lyric to kneel at. (04:54) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:32] Fans describe community and connection. Fans say Swift's music built a community, made them feel less alone, and makes stadium shows feel one-on-one. - [00:32 to 02:14] Friendship bracelets become a business. A group makes bracelets for the tour, sells the extras, and reaches $19,000 in sales. - [02:14 to 04:08] Working a Swift concert as security. A fan takes a security job to work the show and describes fans' reactions when Swift comes near. - [04:08 to 04:54] Costume work for the '22' video. A craftsperson is approached by Swift's team to create a costume for the video for 22 and speaks about empowering women. - [04:54 to 06:31] Planning a proposal at the concert. A fan plans a proposal at a Taylor Swift concert, working out the lyric, the logistics and the ring. - [06:31 to 07:27] Reflections on Swift's impact. Fans say Swift has been present through their hardest and best days and relates to so many people. ## Key quotes - [00:16] Fan: "It just made me feel like I wasn't alone and I wasn't crazy" - [01:12] Bracelet seller: "I woke up the next morning and we had over three hundred" - [06:56] Fan: "She's been there on the hardest days of my life and she's been" - [06:28] Fan: "I've never been a part of such a supportive Community" ## Questions this video answers - Why are friendship bracelets important at Taylor Swift concerts? [00:32] - How did a group of friends turn bracelet making into a business? [01:04] - How did one fan end up working security at a Taylor Swift concert? [02:14] - What did fans say Taylor Swift's music meant to them? [00:16] - How did a fan plan to propose at a Taylor Swift concert? [04:54] - What role did a craftsperson play in the video for 22? [04:08]  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Jun 13, 2024 5:10 PM UTC Taylor Swift fans attending the singer’s concerts in Edinburgh last week caused spikes in seismic activity detected miles away from the city's Murrayfield Stadium, where the performances took place.  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Jun 13, 2024 5:10 PM UTC [Taylor Swift’s](https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/) crowd showed more than just enthusiasm during her three shows in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the weekend. The singer’s fans—commonly known as Swifties—also caused seismic activity during this stop on [the Eras Tour.](https://time.com/6900208/taylor-swift-eras-tour-anniversary-stats/) According to an emailed statement sent to TIME from the British Geological Survey (BGS), seismometers around Edinburgh were triggered by roaring crowds dancing at Murrayfield Stadium. The Grammy-award winner’s song “…Ready For It?” caused the most seismic activity, reaching its peak at 160 beats per minute (bpm). During the song from Swift’s 2017 album [_Reputation_](https://time.com/5017724/taylor-swift-reputation-explained/), the crowd’s activity generated approximately 80 kilowatts (kw) of power, which is equivalent to around 10-16 car batteries. Other songs, including “Cruel Summer” and “champagne problems,” also resulted in spikes in seismic activity throughout the singer’s set, which lasted over three hours. > [](https://twitter.com/BritGeoSurvey/status/1801191789690499450?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1801191789690499450%7Ctwgr%5E067113bac83b39bb058457f046583a54b4997f54%7Ctwcon%5Es1%5F&ref%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FBritGeoSurvey2Fstatus2F1801191789690499450id%3Dmntl-sc-block%5F9-0-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D8662705) BGS monitoring stations around Edinburgh recorded the seismic activity, the furthest station located 3.73 miles (6 km) away at BGS offices. Each of the three evenings, from June 7 to June 9, followed a similar seismographic pattern, but the 73,000 person crowd on Friday evening caused the largest seismic activity of the concerts. Based on the maximum amplitude of motion (the distance the ground moves), BGS says that the Friday night event was the most energetic by a small margin, recording 23.4 nanometres (nm) of movement. This can be compared to other notable concert tours that BGS recorded activity from recently, including 14.0 nm of movement at [Beyonce’s](https://time.com/6961069/beyonce-music-industry/) Renaissance Tour on May 20, 2023, 30.9 nm at Harry Styles’ show on May 23, 2023, and 13.8 nm of movement at Bruce Springsteen’s Show on May 30, 2023. Dr. Sophie Butcher, a volcanologist at BGS, attended two of the concerts in Edinburgh as a fan, not thinking of the science until she arrived back at work on Monday. In a phone interview with TIME, she said the excitement in the stadium was palpable, especially since the last time Swift performed in Scotland was in 2015. "Personally, I've been watching grainy Instagram live streams of the tour in the U.S. for well over a year," Butcher says. "It's really exciting that it was finally happening here in the U.K." Butcher said that for songs with beats with high frequencies like "...Ready for it?" and "Cruel Summer," the seismic activity was mostly caused by dancing, but for slower songs like "champagne problems," the movement is from the strong response after, as fans stomped their feet in celebration. “Clearly Scotland’s reputation for providing some of the most enthusiastic audiences remains well intact!” Callum Harrison, BGS Seismologist, noted in a press release shared with TIME. BGS noted, though, that unless someone was in the immediate vicinity of the stadium, they likely would not have felt the seismic activity. “It’s amazing that we’ve been able to measure the reaction of thousands of concert goers remotely through our data. The opportunity to explore a seismic activity created by a different kind of phenomenon has been a thrill,” Harrison said. ## Transcript [00:02] She's been this for the light in the world this year. [00:05] She brought to so many people together like a community [00:14] to it's not even just hurt. [00:16] It just made me feel like I wasn't alone and I wasn't crazy [00:20] for feeling the way that it was feeling we grew up together. [00:22] We all went through the same things together the stadium [00:26] and it feels like you're with her one-on-one. [00:32] Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the areas for these [00:37] bracelets are so important exchanging special handmade friendship [00:41] bracelet all goes back to Taylor song. [00:43] You're on your own kid. [00:49] So my friends and I got tickets to the arrows toward we had about [00:55] two hundred bracelets made. [00:56] We just couldn't stop you really just had a good time doing [01:00] it. [01:04] You realize 200 very slick was way too many for us to all bring [01:07] in trade can actually came up with the idea to put them on at [01:11] Sea until then. [01:12] I went to bed. [01:13] I woke up the next morning and we had over three hundred [01:15] bracelets on order. [01:20] It's like five six seven. [01:22] I'm going to have to make sure you got done with so many we [01:34] weren't expecting to get much money a couple hundred dollars [01:37] at the most this morning. [01:38] I ran the numbers and we're at $19,000 [01:41] in sales The Heirs to his my Roman Empire, [01:45] I think about it all the time every day. [01:47] I hear a song. [01:48] That's a great price that song. [01:50] That's a good thing to put on a bracelet this business definitely [01:53] keep us in touch two of us over Massachusetts the other two live [01:56] in Connecticut. Now, we have to meet up and trade bracelets [01:59] drop off talking with every single day. [02:01] Keep making more songs Taylors. [02:14] I went to the reputation tour. [02:16] I was right next to a security guard. [02:18] So we struck up a conversation and he told me about the gig they [02:23] have a couple years later. [02:24] I found some free time. [02:26] So I picked up that job ultimately to try and work the Taylor [02:30] Swift concert with working on the floor kind of right along [02:39] the edge of her stage after night one. [02:42] I made little pieces of paper that asked the audience if they [02:46] could take photos of me with Taylor Swift in the background [02:49] and text it to me. [03:03] When she came right behind me, there were a ton of fans and I [03:06] had to look at the fans by saw all of their faces light up [03:10] when she gets near them and it was just a sight even if I [03:13] wasn't looking at her on that date. [03:41] I think the squeal is Mom. [03:46] They had me Neil up on the stage and I see Taylor Swift coming [03:50] to a nice Knights worth fixing Young Band to give that hat tube [03:56] during the song 22. [04:08] I was already working with Taylor's water up team and they approached [04:12] me to do the classical order for the video for 22. [04:21] The connection could she have with her fan in the moment? [04:25] You are so emotional for me to see it was so beautiful. [04:30] Baylor's name power so many women with her music and to me and [04:34] be part of the always. [04:36] I'm trying to empower women with my Craftsman and be together [04:39] is so beautiful to me. [04:54] I always loved you from the moment. [04:57] I want to propose I wanted to do it at Taylor Swift concert. [05:00] I just never thought I would you do I water the logistics [05:05] of that. How long wait at the once-in-a-lifetime [05:08] set the thing I was like, okay, [05:09] I've got to figure out how is it going with the ring one? [05:14] I need to see where exactly in the lyrics I have to kneel down [05:17] to Nelly. All I could think of is what is the line? [05:21] I need to go down one. [05:38] Two to three weeks before the actual date of the score. [05:41] Yeah. I never told him I would play the song whenever I would [05:46] go to work and whenever I would come back just to make sure [05:49] it's okay. This is the part that I have to mail them. [06:11] You got so many different angles of the proposal and I have [06:14] some of those saved as like Swifty section 326 never seen so much [06:20] brightness and glitter up around all at once, [06:23] but I've never been a part of such a supportive Community [06:28] like that. [06:31] I just knew that when I proposed to Nick I needed a letter [06:35] to be a part of it because she's been such momenta simpactful [06:40] person predict his whole life and as much as I love her too, [06:45] it just felt like this is something I don't want Nick to remember [06:48] forever. I want everything. [06:49] He loves to be a part of the experience from [06:56] She's been there on the hardest days of my life and she's been [07:02] there for the best day of my life. [07:13] Bird be able to successfully relate to so many people in the [07:17] way that she has amazing. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6988264/taylor-swift-uk-tour-seismic-activity-recorded-fan-expert-comment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6988264/taylor-swift-uk-tour-seismic-activity-recorded-fan-expert-comment/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift's U.K. Crowd Generates Seismic Activity. 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