We All Wanted to Go to Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July Parties

To honor Taylor Swift’s latest rerecording, we’re celebrating 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. That means we’re throwing it back to 2014, to re-live everything that Taylor—and the rest of pop culture—was up to.

Taylor Swift knows how to throw a party, and she’s proud of it. But she’s not off hosting housewarmings—at least, not publicly. Her birthday parties have generated varying amounts of interest. (The only ones I remember are the party Selena Gomez stormed out of and the controversial bash Swift and Alana Haim co-hosted during the Delta variant outbreak.) It’s her very exclusive, very star-studded, Fourth of July hangs that have commanded attention for the last decade. And it makes sense! Who’s out here throwing a blowout for America’s birthday instead of their own? Also, how much money do you have to make to get on the guest list?

Since 2013, Swift has invited a select group of celebs to come hang with her on the beaches of Rhode Island over the holiday weekend. (Appropriately, her uber-expensive Westerly, R.I., estate was once known as the Holiday House.) Everything we’ve learned about what actually happens at these parties comes from social media, adding to the intrigue—and, yes, fits of jealousy.

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