Taylor Swift Liked Teletubbies Before They Were Cool

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It is often noted that Taylor Swift can play five instruments, so she evidently possesses a lot of talent. The next thing she should add to her résumé is her psychic ability to predict trends.

There are numerous things people brag about liking before it was cool; independent music, gritty television shows, Criterion movies, but a children's television show? Only T Swift could brag about that on social media.

In a topical Instagram post just in time for the holiday every continent but North America doesn't really care about, Swifty-tubby posted a black and white picture — to cement that nostalgic factor — of herself as a young girl in a homemade Laa Laa costume with the following caption.

"When you dress as the yellow teletubby for Halloween, but it's before Teletubbies got huge so all the kids at school ask you why you're dressed as a yellow pregnant alien."

When you dress as the yellow teletubby for Halloween, but it's before Teletubbies got huge so all the kids at school ask you why you're dressed as a yellow pregnant alien.

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Oct 28, 2015 at 3:09pm PDT

Even though she did look a little like a pregnant alien, she predicted a children's media frenzy, and that's an achievement that not even several Grammys can beat.