The crowd is cheering. They’re chanting her name. She begins to sing, and the crowd goes crazy. To junior Katie Carson, the situation was beyond surreal.

“My heart was racing,” Carson said. “It didn’t feel real. It felt like a dream.”

Carson sang Taylor Swift’s part in the song “Two Is Better Than One” by Boys Like Girls at a concert on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. According to her, the situation was unplanned and spontaneous.

“They said they had a song they wanted to sing, but their good friend Taylor Swift wasn’t there, so they needed someone else to sing it with them,” Carson said. “They called me on stage, asked me my name and said, ‘tonight you’re going to be Katie Swift.’”

Carson was very nervous while singing.

“I was very jittery during the whole thing,” Carson said. “I couldn’t hear myself [singing, so] I thought I was going to suck. I was very nervous at first … I think I just freaked myself out.”

However, Carson said the crowd’s enthusiasm helped to calm her nerves and made the situation more enjoyable.

“When I first got up there, [the crowd was] chanting my name and it was very cool,” Carson said. “After I was done singing they were cheering so loud and it was like a dream come true for me … It was like conquering a fear.”

Even though she sang with Boys Like Girls, the concert was still a generally fun experience for Carson.

“It was a really cool concert,” Carson said. “It was very packed. I was pushed up to the front of the stage and probably had a few bruised ribs but it was a good show.”

Although her experience was extraordinary, Carson still thinks situations like this can happen to other people.

“You may think it can never happen to you, but it happened to me,” Carson said. “Things have a weird way of working themselves out.”