According to US Weekly, the multi-awarded singer wrote the song based on a blog about a four year old boy, who died from cancer in 2011.
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Taylor Swift knows how to get concert goers excited for her shows but during her Monday performance she brought everyone to tears.
“In my opinion, one of the bravest things that a human being could ever do is to go through something absolutely unbearable and then share their experience with the world”.
Maya, who is billed as the co-writer of the song, posted several Instagram shots of her family enjoying the concert, including Ronan’s sister Pearl dancing herself into exhaustion. There were no red flags and she felt perfectly fine, but she did it just to get me and my brother off her case about it. “[Maya] had this blog called ‘Rockstar Ronan, ‘” Swift told the audience, “and I would read it every night”. “And I think, the braver you are, the more completely honest you are”. “I love you @taylorswift”, she wrote on Instagram.
Fans who attended Taylor Swift’s Glendale, Arizona concert on August 17 may not have gotten to see a special guest like Fifth Harmony or Little Mix, but they were treated to what might be the most intimate moment of the 1989 tour so far.
That night marked Swift’s second time to have performed “Ronan” live. “I’d like to keep the details of her condition and treatment plans private, but she wanted you to know”.
“And in it was this account of what it was like to watch cancer take over your life”.
The 25-year-old has only ever performed the song in public once before, as part of a Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon.
Maya worked through her grief by continuing the blog, writing heartbreaking letters to her late son, whilst also raising money and awareness for childhood cancer causes. Growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, she was a long way from the life she leads now-complete with sold-out tours, hit songs and high-profile romances.
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All proceeds of the single’s release went towards cancer research.
