Just because Taylor Swift sings about “feeling 22,” it doesn’t mean all her fans know what it means to be in their twenties…. As Giulia Leo reports when you’re a Swiftie age is just a number.

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LEO 1
Willa Himmelsbash is rocking a black sparkly outfit complete with a green bag to reference the colors of the Reputation album.

HIMMELSBACH 1
Taylor Swift has been a real life changer, and her Eras tour can change a lot of people’s lives.

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How? She’s not exactly sure… But, she’s only 9. And she’s among the crowd of other young Swifties at The Cutting Room in Manhattan, where Broadway stars are covering Swift songs.

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The majority of Taylor Swift fans might be millennials, but younger ones are just as into the 1989 singer as their moms. Some, like 10-year-old Nina, also have core childhood memories featuring Swift… Like, you know, from when they were reeeally young.

NINA 1
When I was like 2, my parents would put “Shake it Off” onto the TV, and I tried to follow the lyrics. Like, I tried to sing along and dance along. And it’s just so funny because we have all these videos of me trying to dance.

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40-year-olds Brooke Lewis and Cara Levy are at a Harry Styles cover show for kids at the Brooklyn Bowl.

They love Harry, but they love Taylor more. They have been Swifties since they were in their 20s, and now they share their love with their young daughters.

LEWIS 1
She sings about these really big feelings. Grown-ups and kids have those big feelings.

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Adam Roberts knows it. He is music director at The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a series of concerts dedicated to kids.

ROBERTS 1
Normally the concept is for the parents to get the kids into the music that they dig. But the Taylor Swift shows have been a whole other thing.

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Roberts planned a Taylor Swift cover show later this month. He says tickets sold out so quickly they had to schedule a second date.

ROBERTS 2
They already come here as huge Taylor Swift fans and they just want to hear the music.

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There’s one big difference between putting on a show for young fans and adult ones: attention spans. Roberts says they make shows fun for kids by interrupting performances with games like freeze dance, or a limbo competition.

ROBERTS 3
The Taylor Swift show is the only show where that sometimes throws off the people. Because they’re singing along, and we stop, and the kids just keep singing and singing. It’s just amazing how much they know that music.

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No matter if you’re 10 or 40

You can dance to Taylor’s beat forevermore.

Giulia Leo, Columbia Radio News.