A video featuring a baby-faced Taylor Swift is making us feel all kinds of patriotic this week.
In 2002, at the tender age of 12, Swift — decked out in an American flag blouse and red accessories — took to the court before a Detroit Pistons and Philadelphia 76ers game in Philadelphia to belt out the national anthem. A cappella, no less.
Watch a young @taylorswift13 perform the National Anthem in 2002: http://t.co/eYEhHrbRu9 pic.twitter.com/sfIKop4Lgk
— Vulture (@vulture) November 11, 2014
The video of Swift’s cherubic performance has been making the rounds on the Internet this week, inducing major “awwws” everywhere. (Watch the throwback clip above.)
T. Swift-related nostalgia has been plentiful in recent days. Just last week, to celebrate the success of her new album “1989,” the 24-year-old star posted a photograph of her 12-year-old self on Instagram.
“I was … going through my braids phase.’ #nofilternecessary,” she wrote.
A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Nov 11, 2014 at 1:59pm PST