Taylor Swift receives support from Chile’s President-elect Boric over song writing tiff

Chile’s millennial president-elect Gabriel Burke has made a party to his first international event: support for pop music superstar Taylor Swift on social media credentials for her songwriting with Blair Frontman Damon Alburn.

Alburn, the British co-founder and songwriter for the Guerrillas, suggested that Swift did not write all her own songs in a media interview, which provoked an angry reaction from the American singer. Alburn later apologized.

Burke, 35, backed Swift in a tweet that went viral in his home country, a reflection of how former student protest leaders are shaking up politics in Chile, which has traditionally been southern. The United States is the most arid country.

“There’s a huge group of your supporters here in Chile who know you write your songs from the heart,” Burke, a self-made Swift fan, posted to his 1.4 million Twitter followers. This tweet received 66,000 likes.

“Embrace South Taylor,” said Burke, who will become Chile’s youngest democratically elected president when he takes office in March.