Taylor Swift Gifts 8-Year-Old Fan Who Went Viral for Paper Airplane Song Request

A paper airplane flying, flying over a neighbor’s fence made for an adorable moment that enamored millions of TikTok viewers — including Taylor Swift .

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As reported by People on Tuesday (May 26), the pop star recently sent an autographed guitar and handwritten note to 8-year-old Madeline, a girl who lives in Ohio and went viral in April after sending a song request to her musician neighbor. As captured in a TikTok posted by her mom, Madeline had heard Ethan Hayes singing and strumming guitar next door and decided to ask him to play a song by Swift in note, which she folded into the shape of a plane and threw it into his yard.

At the time, Hayes obliged and performed “Love Story” for the little girl. Now, she has her very own guitar to play any Taylor Swift song she wants, courtesy of the 14-time Grammy winner.

“I just wanted to let you know that it made me so happy that you asked your neighbor to play my song for you,” Swift wrote in her note to Madeline, which arrived alongside a signed acoustic guitar with a photo of the singer printed on the body. “You brought the biggest smile to my face. I’m sending you your own guitar in case you ever want to learn too!”

Billboard has reached out to Swift’s rep for comment.

Hayes also apparently received a guitar from the hitmaker, whose team reached out to him via TikTok. “They’re like, ‘Hey, Taylor saw your video. We want to send you something. Don’t tell anyone until it gets there,'” he told People . “I was expecting maybe a signed poster or something. And then she sent us guitars, which is insane.”

Madeline’s mom, Natalie Hulec, told the publication that her daughter decided on the paper plane idea because she was too shy to approach Hayes in person. After she tossed the note over the fence, the aspiring musician didn’t notice the note at first, but retrieved it after Madeline’s stepfather, Russell, called out to him through the window of the family’s house.

“I’m a musician, so I get requests all the time,” Hayes told the publication. “That’s one [‘Love Story’] I always usually keep in my back pocket.”

Swift last dropped music in October, spending 12 weeks atop the Billboard 200 with The Life of a Showgirl . The album spawned two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits: 10-week chart-topper “The Fate of Ophelia” and “Opalite.”

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-sends-gift-girl-viral-paper-airplane-video-1236257924/)._