Taylor Swift is feeling the birthday love, and it’s coming straight from her interior circle. The pop celebrity celebrated her thirty sixth birthday on Saturday, December 13, and her “Eras Tour” household made positive the milestone didn’t go unnoticed. Swift’s longtime backup dancers and shut mates Kameron Saunders and Jan Ravnik each took to Instagram to honor the singer with heartfelt tributes, providing followers a uncommon glimpse into the bonds fashioned behind the scenes of her record-breaking tour.

Kam Saunders, who has labored alongside Swift for years, shared a rehearsal photograph of the 2 and mirrored on their rising friendship. “To my woman … my boss girl!” he wrote. “It’s been three years now that we’ve gotten to have this second. And annually my love for you grows deeper and deeper.”

He went on to reward Swift not simply as an artist, however as an individual. “You’re such an astounding human being!! I’m honored to be in your orbit. The laughs. The love. The affirming. The care. The generosity. I simply … thanks!” Saunders added, closing his message with, “Right here’s to a lifetime of extra of those moments collectively. Comfortable Birthday, beautiful! #SheProtectsTheFamily.”

Including to the second, Swift’s ex-boyfriend, Taylor Lautner, additionally popped up within the feedback, leaving a refined present of help with heart-hand emojis below Saunders’ publish.

Fellow dancer Jan Ravnik, who lately appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” additionally joined within the celebration, posting a montage of moments from the “Eras Tour.”

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY @taylorswift,” he wrote. “I’m endlessly grateful for you and for the three years we’ve shared collectively. You’re one in every of a form!”

The birthday love comes throughout what has already been a large 12 months for Swift, each professionally and personally.

On the music entrance, the Grammy winner launched “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” her twelfth studio album, in October. The undertaking shattered data, incomes the largest first-week gross sales ever within the U.S. and sending all 12 tracks into the highest spots of the Billboard Sizzling 100. She additionally gave followers an inside have a look at her historic tour with the primary installment of “The Finish of an Period,” a docuseries pulling again the curtain on the “Eras Tour” phenomenon.

Within the undertaking, Saunders spoke overtly about how working alongside Swift has helped create a uncommon sense of security and acceptance in an business that usually lacks it. “Areas like house that Taylor is curating on a night-to-night foundation, I want we had extra of that, even outdoors of entertaining,” Saunders stated. “It’s so necessary to be heard, to be understood. My background as a dancer, I had quite a lot of dancers and professors who had been not-so-kind, largely round my measurement and if I wished to be knowledgeable dancer.”

Probably the most highly effective moments in “The Finish of an Period” docuseries has nothing to do with sold-out stadiums or record-breaking charts. As an alternative, it occurs backstage on what Swift calls “bonus day.”

Within the second episode, Swift opens up about why rewarding her dancers, musicians, and crew members on the finish of every tour leg was non-negotiable for her. “Bonus day is so necessary as a result of setting a precedent with the ‘Eras Tour’ is basically necessary to me. As a result of individuals who work on the street, if the tour grosses extra, they get extra of a bonus,” Swift defined. “And these individuals simply work so onerous, and they’re the most effective at what they do.”

However the cash wasn’t handed out casually. Swift revealed she personally wrote handwritten notes to accompany every bonus, decided to make the grueling, almost two-year tour really feel significant for everybody concerned.