Taylor Swift did what she does greatest this week by breaking the web with the announcement of a brand new album. However this time she did it with the assistance of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Travis Kelce, her boyfriend of almost two years. The music famous person appeared on “New Heights,” the podcast Kelce does along with his brother, Tremendous Bowl champion and retired Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce.
The looks of a “particular visitor” for Wednesday’s episode was teased for days. And as Swifties do, they instantly started to analyze, in search of any clue to substantiate that this visitor was Swift herself. That affirmation got here Tuesday. After which at 12:12 a.m. Wednesday morning, the information of her new album — title and all — was confirmed with a preview of the episode, which included an excited response from Jason upon seeing the album’s cowl for the primary time.
The teasing of the album particulars solely elevated the anticipation for the premiere of the complete episode Wednesday evening. And Jason’s introduction of Swift on the episode matched that power stage.
Sporting a shirt along with her face on it, Jason rattled off a few of her largest accomplishments, together with being the one artist to win the Grammy for Album of the 12 months 4 occasions. He additionally made to incorporate her stats as a Chiefs fan.
“As a fan of that man on the Chiefs, she has 19 wins, two AFC titles and a Tremendous Bowl,” Jason stated.
Taylor Swift pronounces new album on Travis Kelce’s ‘New Heights’ podcast, her first interview since 2023
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Swift quipped in regards to the complaints directed her approach during the last two NFL seasons, joking about those that complain they see her on the display an excessive amount of when she attends Travis’ video games.
“You guys have a whole lot of male sports activities followers that hearken to your podcast and I feel everyone knows that if there’s one factor male sports activities followers wish to see of their areas and on their screens it is extra of me,” Swift stated, smirking.
This is a full breakdown of what was mentioned on the podcast, from how Swift started a relationship with Travis, to studying soccer, touring and her new album.
How did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce meet?
For these unfamiliar with the again story, the brief model of Kelce first expressing his curiosity in Swift entails making friendship bracelets along with his telephone quantity on them, wanting to satisfy the singer at her Kansas Metropolis present after which complaining on “New Heights” that they by no means met.
Swift credited the podcast with lots.
“This podcast has carried out lots for me, I owe lots to this podcast. This podcast received me a private boyfriend ever since Travis determined to make use of it as his private courting app about two years in the past,” Swift joked.
She stated she has by no means seen the unique friendship bracelets and laughed at Kelce’s try to satisfy her. Swift stated Kelce by no means contacted her administration crew and thought as a result of he is aware of the girl who runs the elevator at Arrowhead Stadium, he’d be capable of get down there to see her.
“It was such a wild romantic gesture to only be like, ‘I wish to date you,'” she stated, imitating how Travis was on the podcast after the Eras Tour present. “This dude did not get a meet and greet and he is making it everybody’s downside. If this man is not loopy, which is a giant ‘if,’ that is kind of what I have been writing songs about eager to occur to me since I used to be an adolescent… It was wild but it surely labored.”
Swift stated Kelce is “the nice form of loopy” and each relayed how immediate their connection was.
“I had by no means skilled one thing so mesmerizing on stage after which so actual and so stunning in particular person,” Kelce stated.
Taylor Swift ‘fell in love’ with soccer
On their first date, Swift requested Kelce what it was wish to play within the Tremendous Bowl towards the Eagles and see his brother throughout the road of scrimmage proper in entrance of him.
“Did not occur,” Jason, who performed on the offensive line and would by no means be on the sector concurrently Travis, chimed in.
“I now know what an insane query that was,” Swift stated, however famous that Travis’ nonjudgmental response to her lack of soccer data was one of many first “inexperienced flags” she noticed from him.
“I assumed everybody was on the sector on the similar time … I did not know what a primary down was. I did not know what the chains have been,” Swift stated. “I did not know what a good finish was.”
Travis thanked her for “diving into the soccer world wholeheartedly,” one thing he noticed firsthand throughout Swift’s first NFL Draft expertise as a Chiefs fan.
“I fell in love with [football], I turned obsessive about it,” Swift stated. “I turned like an individual who was operating by means of the halls of my home screaming ‘WE DRAFTED XAVIER WORTHY’ and my pals are like … ‘what do you imply?'”
Give her 16 months and Swift joked she’d be able to go within the broadcast sales space.
Taylor Swift remembers her first Chiefs sport
When you have been at Swift’s first Chiefs sport towards the Chicago Bears, you might have walked in along with her and did not realize it. She stated she went by means of normal admission with hundreds of different followers, sporting a hat and a masks and surrounded by Kelce’s pals.
“There have been rumors that we had been seeing one another however I feel individuals have been like, ‘What would they discuss?’ Truthful,” Swift stated.
This was one of many first “inexperienced flags” Kelce noticed in Swift, as a result of it confirmed how shortly she was able to dive into being a member of Chiefs Kingdom. Jason even joked that he did not imagine Travis when his youthful brother first advised him about their relationship.
Taylor Swift on Andy Reid: ‘He is humorous, he is cheeky’
Chiefs coach Andy Reid has been pals with Swift’s father Scott for some time and even put in a very good phrase for Kelce when he first confirmed curiosity in Swift.
Swift stated Reid has been coming to exhibits for years, however she “did not actually know what the sports activities have been that he was doing … I now know that he’s actually essentially the most iconic, legendary coach of all time.”
She’s seen one other layer to Reid by means of courting Kelce.
“The way in which that you simply discuss him, his management fashion, I respect it a lot, as a result of I really feel prefer it’s carried out with out aggression or elevating your voice or shedding your composure, it is all very composed and targeted,” she stated, with Kelce including in that Reid will “rip you aside for positive.”
“It is not overdone,” she added about Reid’s fashion of operating a crew.
“When you get it from him, you already know you deserve it and also you gotta form up. That is what I heard from [Travis],” Swift stated.
“There’s a whole lot of coronary heart, he is humorous, he is cheeky,” Swift stated, saying that he coaches and lives in a really intentional approach. She famous that she has all the time tried to maintain composure in her life and calls Reid a fantastic position mannequin to that method, saying he is very targeted on doing the correct factor in the correct second.
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce discovered parallels between their jobs
At face worth, singers and soccer gamers could not appear to have related jobs, however as they got here out to help one another, Swift and Kelce discovered simply how alike their routines have been.
“I am not getting hit by 300 pounders, however the heels for that lengthy …” Swift stated when evaluating her tour to when Kelce is in season and the toll it takes on you mentally and bodily.
“The similarities have been loopy, I used to be like ‘Oh my gosh, she does greater than I do,'” Kelce stated. “We associated on how a lot torture we put our our bodies by means of.”
Why Travis Kelce believes Taylor Swift is an athlete: ‘I’ve seen what she goes by means of … it is mind-blowing’
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Swift was shortly capable of evaluate the pressures she faces with what athletes endure.
“I really like this new world that Travis has proven me. It is so enjoyable, it is so thrilling. There’s a lot stress on these gamers … the stress on sports activities is simply such a unique kind [than music] that I’ve a lot respect for everybody,” Swift stated.
They associated on the extent of dedication it takes to succeed at their respective craft as a result of it is one thing that begins from a younger age.
“On paper we even have a really related job. Our job is to entertain individuals for three-plus hours in NFL stadiums,” Swift stated. “Once I’m there it is known as a dressing room. When Travis is there it is known as a locker room. For me it is known as a rehearsal, for him it is known as a follow. For him it is known as his coach, for me it is my mother.”
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce glad to create new NFL followers
There are a whole lot of opinions on their relationship, however Swift and Kelce do not deal with that. Being within the highlight for thus lengthy, Swift has change into accustomed to ignoring the damaging feedback and the hate and is educating Kelce to do the identical. Swift famous that they are too busy having an “precise relationship” to speak in regards to the public notion of them as a pair.
“My title may be within the precise headline and it may well nonetheless be none of my enterprise,” Swift stated.
Swift and Kelce have been each shocked by the inflow of followers their relationship delivered to the NFL and have loved seeing new followers, particularly younger women, study to like the sport.
“I feel a whole lot of the ladies and women perhaps they watched one sport to see me cheer on my boyfriend, but when they stayed, which is what individuals are saying primarily based on the numbers, that is as a result of the sport is so nice and it is such a tremendous attention-grabbing factor to find out about,” she stated.
Travis Kelce critiques Taylor Swift’s new album
On the finish of the episode, Swift revealed the quilt and monitor itemizing for her new album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” which she wrote whereas on tour in Europe.
Kelce was astonished that she was capable of write and document a whole new venture whereas on the street. He gave it a rave overview, saying it’s “simply superior.”
Jason Kelce was unaware they needed to disclose the album on the podcast, so it got here as a shock to him. The older Kelce stated he needs to listen to the album earlier than its launch date, however they do not suppose he’ll be capable of hold it a secret.
“It is a lot enjoyable. I have been lucky sufficient to listen to each single music on right here, so I do know it is all 12 bangers,” Travis stated. “It is much more upbeat and it is much more enjoyable, pop, pleasure and I feel it is a full 180 from a whole lot of the songs on Tortured Poets for positive.”
