Maine Hosted Taylor Swift as She Filmed Music Video for "Mine"

Thirteen years ago, before she took over the world, before she was named Time's 2023 Person of the Year, Taylor Swift was in the 207.

Since Taylor Swift landed at Bangor International Airport for a brief layover last week and had everyone around here buzzing with excitement, we thought it would be a good time to jump in the time machine and take a look back at when she was in Kennebunkport, not only to the time she filmed part of a music video here but when she also came back again to perform a live show.

Back in August 2010, when she was strictly still a country artist, she came to Maine to make a video for the track "Mine." In the video, you can see her frolicking on Colony Beach, right here in the great state of Maine.

When she released the video to Country Music Television, she came back to Kennebunkport, to perform live outside St. Anne's Church on Aug. 27, 2010. We just happen to have found some fan-shot footage of the show. Back then, cell phone cameras were still a little primitive, to say the least.

Her surprise gig even made the local news.

In the 13 years since, she made the switch to pop music, and the rest is history. Check out this list of accomplishments:

200 million records sold globally
The most-streamed woman on Spotify and Apple Music
The highest-grossing female performer ever
On the list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
12 Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins)
A Primetime Emmy Award
40 American Music Awards
39 Billboard Music Awards
23 MTV Video Music Awards
111 Guinness World Records
Time's Person of the Year for 2023, announced on Dec. 6.

Wow.

PICTURES: Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs Game (Dec. 3)

Some have called Taylor Swift a good luck charm for the Kansas City Chiefs: They were on a 4-0 winning streak of games she attended, until now. Swift was in the stands to cheer on her boyfriend Travis Kelce, and although the team lost to the Green Bay Packers, Swift still stunned in matching black-and-red looks with Brittany Mahomes and Lyndsay Bell (two of the wives of Chiefs players) at the game.

Gallery Credit: Carena Liptak