Cat's Hilarious Reaction to Owner Singing Taylor Swift Song—'Airplane Mode'

A cat appears to have made her feelings about her owner's singing skills abundantly clear.

Pet owner Hayley from Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a big Taylor Swift fan and regularly enjoys belting out some of the "1989" singer's biggest hits in the comfort of her living room. Unfortunately, the sound of Hayley's voice is proving anything but a source of comfort to her senior cat, Zelda, who simply cannot look away. In fact, the pet makes a point of entering the room every time she hears Hayley start to sing, before reacting in a manner befitting of a feline Simon Cowell.

"Zelda loves to lounge around the house and chatter at the birds and comes down everytime I'm singing and dancing to Taylor Swift in the living room," Hayley told Newsweek. The cat owner has her own theories as to why Zelda looks so utterly befuddled by what she is hearing. One is that the noise interrupts her during her napping hours.

Proof of this was provided in a September video that Hayley posted to TikTok showing Zelda standing on the staircase, listening to her sing "Cruel Summer" at the top of her voice. The look on Zelda's face is one of blind confusion or, as one of the near-370,000 viewers viewer aptly put it, "airplane mode."

Zelda has been a part of Hayley's family for eight years, having been purchased as a surprise by her sister, following the death of a previous much-loved pet.

"I always seem to wake her from her cozy naps when I blast Taylor Swift on the TV," Hayley said. "As soon as the music begins, she runs down the stairs and just stares at me, all while her two golden retriever siblings are unphased on the couch."

Hayley added that the response may just be down to the fact Zelda is really responsive to her high energy and wants to have some input. Alternatively, she said it may be that she is "freaked out and just trying to figure out what is going on."

In any case, Hayley's decision to share the footage to social media proved a wise one with viewers suitably amused at what played out. "Cats have a beautiful way of just hurting our feelings daily," one user commented, with another writing: "My cat when I stop dissociating and start showing signs of feeling."

A third posted, "She's embarrassed on your behalf," while a fourth quipped: "This cat just learned what secondhand embarrassment is."

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