Brad Paisley Filled Taylor Swift's Tour Bus with Crickets
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction gave Swift the public stage to finally settle an old score with affection.
Taylor Swift told the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame this week that Brad Paisley once filled her tour bus with live crickets — hundreds of them — and she's only just forgiven him. The prank happened years ago, early in her career, and she described it as the kind of thing that made sleeping impossible for months. Paisley was inducted into the Hall of Fame on the same night, which is apparently when she decided the statute of limitations had finally run out.
The story is now circulating as a format for long-held grudges and unhinged workplace pranks. Creators are using it to caption their own "I couldn't sleep for months" moments — the coworker who microwaved fish, the roommate who borrowed a car and returned it on empty, the friend who revealed a spoiler mid-binge. The cricket detail is doing the work: specific enough to be funny, extreme enough to justify years of resentment.
The cricket detail is doing the work: specific enough to be funny, extreme enough to justify years of resentment.