Taylor Swift has been healing broken hearts with her music for decades. But now with her latest hit “Wood,” she might be saving lives too.
In a Facebook post shared on Saturday, the American Heart Association (AHA) revealed that the controversial track from Swift’s newly released album The Life of a Showgirl, hits just the right beats to perform CPR on a patient.
“You don’t gotta knock on wood, because it ain’t hard to see that Hands-Only CPR can be the key to saving a life!” reads the caption.
“If you see a teen or adult collapse, call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest until help arrives to the beat of Taylor Swift’s new hit ‘Wood.”
The AHA website explains that for adults experiencing cardiac arrest, chest compressions should be delivered at a rate of 100 to 120 per minute and a depth between 2 and 2.4 inches.
Swift’s new song “Wood” happens to hit 100 beats per minute according to the AHA, which is just the right tempo for the life-saving maneuver.
The track had previously sparked controversy, due to its witty nods to Swift’s relationship with her fiancé, football player Travis Kelce, mentioning hard rocks, magic wands, and new heights of manhood.
When it was first released, last week, Rolling Stone criticized its “gauche lyrics,” which the BBC called “silly and unexpected.”
The AHA post has been reshared over 8,000 times on Facebook, and the surprising discovery has sent fans into a frenzy.
One user, Emily Wirth Bleistein, commented: “Wood’ is all about getting the blood flowing.”
Brooke Kelly said: “Just maybe… sing it in your head if there’s children around.”
On Instagram, users joked that patients would “have a heart attack listening to the lyrics,” and the AHA clapped back calling the song “life-saving.”
Many people may associate the Bee Gees’ hit “Stayin’ Alive” with chest compression, however, the AHA has shared an entire playlist of suitable songs with over 200 tracks on Spotify called “Don’t Drop the Beat.”
The life-saving playlist includes songs like Coldplay’s “Adventure of a Lifetime,” Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” and Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” among others.
Newsweek reached out to the American Heart Association (AHA) for comment.
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