Shonda Rhimes took a second to mirror on assembly Taylor Swift for the primary time in her Gray’s Anatomy workplace earlier than her track, “White Horse,” was used in the beginning of season 5 of the hit ABC collection.
In a dialog with Folks for its particular Gray’s difficulty, the showrunner recalled when the Grammy-winning artist got here by her workplace and carried out her fashionable track, “Love Story,” in 2008.
“I bear in mind she was an attention-grabbing artist,” Rhimes advised the publication. “It’s so humorous as a result of, again then, she confirmed up in my workplace with naked toes. She went off and performed ‘Love Story’ and was like, ‘I actually love your present.’ I had no concept who she was. I used to be like, ‘This child’s lovable. Like, I really like this track. The track was actually good.’”
Gray’s govt producer Betsy Beers additionally chimed in on how a whole lot of the time on the long-running collection, they get to fulfill individuals earlier than they’ve their large break and are simply beginning their careers.
“I imply, Taylor Swift got here into my workplace with a guitar,” she remembered, “one of many loveliest individuals I’d ever met and began taking part in this track. And Taylor Swift has carried out extremely nicely.”
Elsewhere within the dialog, the Bridgerton creator went on to reward the cultural impression Swift has had since then, producing a lot music and serving as “type of the voice of what that era is in individuals’s heads.”
“You realize what I imply? How they’re perpetually like the identical emotional age someway,” Rhimes continued. “And in a great way. So I assumed, yeah, her songs do turn into woven in as a result of truthfully, that’s what all people’s listening to, but in addition they really feel good and so they work.”
Over time, Swift has turn into identified for being a fan of Gray’s. She cherished the present a lot that, in 2015, she named considered one of her cats after Ellen Pompeo’s title character, Meredith Gray. That very same yr, the actress starred in Swift’s “Dangerous Blood” music video. On the time, “The Tortured Poets Division” singer-songwriter advised Us Weekly she named the cat after Meredith as a result of she’s grey.