The impact of being a Backstreet Boys fan on Taylor Swift‘s life has become a hot topic recently.

In a delightful twist, AJ McLean recently combined the iconic “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” with Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor,” to which fellow band member Nick Carter choreographed a new dance routine.

Their enthusiasm was evident in a post on Instagram from Thursday, October 23, which read, “EVERYBODY’s gotta love this mashup! We know we do @TaylorSwift.”

Swift, aged 35, was quick to notice the video. She expressed her excitement by being the first to comment, using all caps to convey her thrilled reaction.

Enthusiastically, Taylor Swift gave her seal of approval to the creative blend of her track “Elizabeth Taylor” with the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” After AJ McLean shared a clip of himself mimicking the original music video to this mix, Swift eagerly commented, “OH HI AJ OH […]”

“OH, THE SQUEAL,” Swift replied. “I JUST SQUEALT.”

Carter, 45, subsequently reposted the clip onto his Instagram Stories, screenshotting Swift’s kind remarks.

Earlier this week, Swift was similarly impressed when McLean, 47, shared footage of himself singing the mashup of “Everybody” and “Elizabeth Taylor.” (The combined song was originally created by Lydia Getachew on SoundCloud.)

“OH HI AJ OH MY GOD,” Swift wrote via TikTok comment.

McLean, Carter and their BSB bandmates — Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson — released “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” in 1997. The song was cowritten by Max Martin, who also produced Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor” and the entirety of her The Life of a Showgirl record alongside the pop star and Shellback.

The second track on Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, is named after iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor. “I wanted to sort of, like, glamorize the different aspects of how [The Eras Tour] felt … to be at the end of the night when all this has gone down,” Swift, 35, said during […]

Swift released Showgirl, her 12th studio album, earlier this month, featuring a track named after famed actress Elizabeth Taylor.

“I think one of the most random places I came up with an idea for a song for this album was the song ‘Elizabeth Taylor,’” Swift recalled in a TikTok video shared via Pandora’s account. “My parents sent me this clip of Elizabeth Taylor’s son saying something very flattering that, basically, if there was one person he might compare to his mother in modern day in terms of the personal and the whole chaos going on around us, he said he would say me.”

She continued, “When I read it, I just immediately started talking to Travis [Kelce, my fiancé] about it. I was just going on and on about Elizabeth Taylor, like, talking about all the things about her that I love [and] all the things that made her so glamorous and funny and witty and interesting, and how she kept challenging herself late into her life.”

While Taylor died in 2011 at the age of 79, her son Christopher Wilding has frequently praised Swift and her career achievements in the years since.

“I was, like, ‘One second, we’re parked [and] I have to get out of the car for a second,’” Swift recalled in the October clip, teasing how she told Kelce, 36, she needed to remember her song idea. “I just sang this melody into my phone, got back in the car and that’s what that’s like when that happens.”

Swift’s ode to Taylor is just one of the Showgirl songs that chart the Grammy winner’s romance with Kelce, who proposed in August.

“It’s got to do with fame, attention, love, notoriety [and] anxiety that this isn’t going to be forever, and how heartbroken would you be then?” Swift explained of the song’s origins during her “Release Party of a Showgirl” event. “The first line that I came up with was, ‘I cry my eyes violet, Elizabeth Taylor,’ and from that point on I was obsessed with this song. I wanted to tell a story that referenced some of the cool things about her life, but also are parallel to mine.”

She continued, “I used details from her life, but the feelings of what it conveys are things I’ve absolutely experienced time and time again. We really went in on this track, like, the production is something that I’m so proud of. It’s equally luxurious and feminine, and then goes really hard and really tough in the chorus. It’s one of my favorite songs.”