Like, all the way back to the OG Fearless era. 🥹
Excuse me, hi, if you’re one of the Swifties who believes “When Emma Falls In Love” is about one Oscar winner Emma Stone, then this one’s for you. It’s not a far-fetched theory—especially since Emma playfully addressed it at the New York premiere of her movie Poor Things in 2023. The actor’s sweet friendship with Taylor Swift goes way back—like, all the way back to the OG Fearless era in 2008, which means they’ve been connected for 16 years (!!!).
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^ In the mood to be all like this? Let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit the most wholesome moments of Taylor Swift and Emma Stone’s friendship timeline.
April 27, 2008
Teenage Taylor and Emma first meet at Hollywood Life‘s Young Hollywood Awards in 2008, where they both match in purple dresses and pose for cute pics:
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Emma opened up about meeting Taylor at the event during an interview with MTV News in 2010, saying, “We met at the Young Hollywood Awards for Hollywood Life magazine. We met there three years ago, and then I listened to some of her music, and I wrote her an e-mail saying I liked her music, I swear. And then we started talking and hanging out.”
March 15, 2009
Taylor sends a tweet to Emma (you know, when that was the main way we all communicated with each other):
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Important to note that Emma’s old account, @ijustmight, is no longer in service. This is also the first of many Twitter interactions between them, so expect to see more of these later, ‘kay?
March 22, 2009
While T. Swift was probably dating Lucas Till or beginning to write Speak Now around this time… she was also doing whatever this is:
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Taylor catches a cool cat sweater during a shopping trip, which reminds her of Emma and her “hip-ness.”
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Really wishing we had Emma’s OG tweet for context here.
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Another day, another tweet for Emma.
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The girlies are starting to have inside jokes with each other, as proven by Tay’s tweets at the time:
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Emma wasn’t answering her phone and the result? Taylor tweeted that she knitted her a crochet hat (and I would like to see the hat in question, tysm).
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Emma and Taylor grab some ice cream at Baskin Robbins, according to pics obtained by Just Jared Jr.
April 5, 2010
Emma gushes about her friendship with Taylor during an interview with MTV News, saying, “She’s so great! We’re very different, but she has such a sick sense of humor.”
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“Nobody knows that. She’s so great. People know … how hilarious she is. They’ve seen her on SNL. People are seeing it more now, and she’s so funny and she’s exactly who you think she is, and I love that,” she continued. Emma also praised Tay for how she handled Kanyegate at the 2009 MTV VMAs, saying she was “so awesome and so gracious and fine” after the “ridiculous” incident.
September 13, 2010
Taylor pulls up to the premiere of Emma’s cult-classic teen flick, Easy A. The pair chat on the red carpet, share a hug, and pose for pics together.
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February 26, 2011
Taylor and Emma attend the Montblanc Cocktail Party in West Hollywood to celebrate that year’s Academy Award Nominees.
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The next day, the girlies pull up to the Vanity Fair Oscar party with their friend, Ashley Avignone.
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Emma and Taylor attend the 2011 Met Gala in New York City.
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Emma reveals that Taylor played Speak Now for her before it dropped in an interview with MTV News. “I was lucky enough to hear it pretty early on, so it’s so exciting for it to be out and own the songs instead of just be singing them [in my head],” she told the outlet.
She also noted that Tay is a “pretty normal girl” and “she’s not [like], ‘I am one of the world’s most popular singers.'”
Both Taylor and Emma had a huge night at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, where the singer snagged a few awards. Emma presented her with the surfboard for the teens’ Ultimate Choice of the year:
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And of course, they posed together backstage:
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Taylor and Emma meet up for lunch during Paris Fashion Week, according to pics published by The Daily Mail.
October 23, 2012
During her Red press run, Taylor chats with Access Hollywood and dishes about her sisterhood with Emma and Selena Gomez. “I’m definitely a girl’s girl,” she revealed. “I need to tell my friends everything I’m going through. We have these big group texts where I’ll just, like, text them everything that’s going on with my day and one of us in New York, one of us is in Los Angeles, one of us is in Nashville or Paris.”
She added, “It’s just so important to have people that you trust, and Emma and Selena and I, we’ve had so many things in our lives that have changed over the last couple years, but our friendship has stayed the same. So that’s really good.”
July 4, 2014
Taylor throws one of her iconic Fourth of July parties, and according to pics published by The Daily Mail, Emma and her boyfriend at the time, Andrew Garfield, were some of the many celebs in attendance.
December 9, 2014
According to Just Jared, Taylor supported Emma’s Broadway debut in Cabaret by attending a show with her mom. At the time, Taylor posted this sweet pic to Instagram:
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“Got to see Emma KILL IT in Cabaret last night!” she wrote in her caption, per People. “Every new project she takes on is even more excellent than her last, and it has inspired me since the day I met her 7 years ago.”
November 16, 2018
A few years later, Taylor’s boyfriend at the time, Joe Alwyn, starred alongside Emma in The Favourite. Taylor attended the premiere to support them, and according to a People insider, “She and Emma Stone were chatting up a storm. Taylor just stayed by Joe’s side the whole night.”