Lead singer of band speaks out after Taylor Swift is labeled 'cringe' for dancing to his song at US open

The lead singer of a band has spoken out on Taylor Swift being labelled 'cringe' after she was spotted singing along to one of his songs.

Being a millennial with creaking knees and a growing sense of general confusion about the world, my tricenarian understanding is that 'cringe' is generally a bad term.

For example, the sentence above is probably going to be considered cringe. Meta jokes, so 2010s, they most certainly did NOT understand the assignment.

So Swift being daubed with the label for singing along to The Darkness' song, 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love', can't be a good thing.

People took to Twitter after spotting the pair at the US open, with one writing: "Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are pure cringe at the US Open, this looks completely forced and unnatural."

Someone cancel the rest of The Eras Tour, we had a good run but we're done here.

That is, we would be if the lead singer of The Darkness Justin Hawkins hadn't responded with a TikTok video embracing the pair singing the song.

In the video he shared that he had gone to see Swift perform and praised the hospitality he was shown.

The pair sang along to 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love' at the US Open (Jean Catuffe/GC Images)

The singer described how he was 'dad of the year' after the concert, adding: "To make matters even more spectacular Taylor Swift actually sent me a lovely letter which was waiting for me in the VIP section talking about how much she loves the song 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love'.

"I was just dad of the year, maybe dad of the century."

He added: "I woke up this morning and everybody's forwarded me footage of 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love' being played at the US open and Taylor Swift and her partner Travis dancing along to it and really enjoying the music.

"It was a really heartwarming moment for me and my little girl can't wait to tell her friends at school, so thanks Taylor, thanks Travis!"

What's Travis saying? (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

And many Swifties took to the comments to evoke what I'm going to call 'Swift's Law' - when Taylor Swift shows she likes a formerly popular thing, her fans make that thing popular again.

One wrote: "Don’t underestimate the power of the Swifties. We may just put I believe in a thing called love back in the charts because Mother has summoned us."

Another commented: "Get ready Justin, the swifties have been summoned.. you’re about to get ALOT more plays."

Meanwhile, a third wrote simply: "Alright swifties. Time to get this song on the chart."