The response was quick with the singer giving the green signal in a tweet:

Taylor Swift is a global superstar with more than 61.5 million followers on Twitter, but her work was largely unknown to the cast of the Seventeen until they began rehearsing the play, which was written specifically for them.

"These actors weren't, until these rehearsals, familiar with Taylor Swift - or much pop music - so we introduced them to this track, they learned all the words - it was kind of a big process," Ms Sarks told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"So it was quite a big deal to get denied those rights at the last minute," she added and also stated on Twitter later that Taylor's support for artists was 'a thing to behold'.