Taylor Swift acquired candid in a virtually two-hour pre-recorded podcast along with her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce that at one level introduced more than a million viewers to a YouTube stream on Wednesday night.
Teasers launched forward of her inaugural look on “New Heights” revealed the singer could be speaking about her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl” and opening up about her historic Eras Tour, which concluded in December 2024.
She hit on each topics at size within the episode, however among the most enjoyable moments got here from conversations that had been much less anticipated – like when she acquired emotional talking concerning the second she learned she was going to as soon as once more personal her whole catalog of music or when she opened up about her mother and father’ well being struggles this summer time.
Here are among the highlights from their dialog:
“The Life of a Showgirl” will be released on October 3 and will include 12 tracks – a nod to this being the pop famous person’s twelfth studio album — together with a ultimate music that includes Sabrina Carpenter.
“This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,” Swift mentioned.
The album marks a reunion between Swift and legendary producers Max Martin and Shellback, who labored along with her pop-heavy hits “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation.” These albums additionally function a number of of her high songs, together with “Shake It Off,” “Delicate,” “Blank Space” and “I Knew You were Trouble.”
Swift mentioned her aim for the brand new album was to have “melodies that were so infectious that you’re almost angry at it” and lyrics that had been “just as vivid but crisp and focused and completely intentional.”
Swift mentioned the album’s theme is “everything that was going on behind the curtain,” later saying she needed the quilt to speak the identical thought. It’s “the life beyond the show,” she mentioned.
Asked of the importance behind the album’s orange iconography, Swift defined that it’s “energetically how my life has felt,” she mentioned, describing it as “exuberant and electric and vibrant.”
Jason Kelce, a retired heart for the Philadelphia Eagles and Super Bowl champ, then requested if he’d get to listen to the album forward of time, to which Swift mentioned no.
“We don’t trust you at all,” she mentioned.
He replied: “Honestly, smart.”
Travis Kelce’s method with phrases and Swift’s ‘green flag’ second
How Travis Kelce and Swift came to be one of the well-known energy {couples} round is now well-known lore, and Swift joked that the podcast “got me a boyfriend.” But her beau mentioned he truly offers the Eras Tour credit score for his or her relationship.
“If I never would have gone to that show and just been mesmerized and just been captivated and then left with such a desire to want to meet you, I would have never went on here and told everybody how butthurt I was (when he didn’t get a chance to give her a friendship bracelet he’d made for her). I had never been so engulfed in the curiosity of who you were,” he mentioned.
Swift made an audible “aww” and added “that’s really beautiful.”
His brother quipped in response: “The best part of that statement is that you didn’t know what the word ‘engulfed’ meant before you met Taylor.”
Swift and Travis Kelce appeared extremely snug with each other all through the episode, typically sitting with arms intertwined.
At one other level within the episode, Swift revealed the “green flag” she noticed early on as she acquired to know Travis Kelce was his capability to take care of friendships.
“Travis has had the same friends since he was probably four years old,” she mentioned. “He’s incredibly good at maintaining friendships and is so loyal and his friends are equally loyal and the funniest, most hilarious group of people.”
Swift’s mother and brother performed a significant function in serving to her purchase her masters again
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Travis Kelce described Swift’s “reclaiming” of her grasp recordings as one in every of his favourite things that occurred this summer time, launching Swift into an in depth account of the way it got here to be.
Swift mentioned she despatched her mom and brother to Los Angeles to debate buying her music catalog with the personal fairness firm Shamrock Capital that beforehand owned her music.
“They sat down with Shamrock Capital and they told them what this meant for me,” she recalled. “They told them the whole story of all the times we’ve tried to buy it, all the times it’s fallen through.”
Swift mentioned she acquired information that she acquired her grasp recordings a number of months after the Super Bowl.
“I get a call from my mom and she’s like, ‘You got your music,’” Swift mentioned whereas tearing up. “It’s literally been so long since this happened, and it’s every time I talk about it….I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real. Honestly, just started like bawling my eyes out, and I’m just like weeping.”
Travis Kelce admitted he began crying, too.
“You were weeping,” she echoed.
In May, Swift turned the proprietor of her whole catalog of music, roughly six years after she protested the sale of the grasp recordings of her first six albums by her former report label.
Swift introduced the information in a letter posted to her web site on the time, writing that “all of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”
The Grammy-winner specified that she owns all her music movies, live performance movies, album artwork and pictures, together with unreleased songs and that she bought her music “outright with no strings attached, no partnership, full autonomy,” from Shamrock Capital.
Her schedule would possibly seem perpetually packed, however Swift truly does have free time and hobbies, which embrace portray, cooking and “a different baking obsession every six months.”
Travis Kelce joked: “I’m the luckiest man in the world.”
“Right now, we’re very deep in a sourdough obsession that has taken over my life,” she added.
Travis Kelce says he’s very grateful to be operating and coaching as a lot as he’s proper now, as a result of “I am getting the caloric intake.”
Taylor Swift mentioned he requested her to ship him two loaves of sourdough at coaching camp.
“I’m talking about bread 60% of the times now,” she mentioned.
Meanwhile, she has been perfecting a “funfetti sourdough” for Jason Kelce’s kids “because they love sprinkles.”
“It’s gonna blow their mind,” Jason Kelce mentioned.
Work exhausting, recuperate tougher – that’s a precept each Travis Kelce and Swift appear to comply with dutifully.
Swift opened about concerning the grueling toll her three-hour performances would take on her.
“It was a lot of physical therapy and it was a lot of being in a state of perpetual discomfort,” she mentioned.
She informed Travis Kelce, “(It’s) kind of like when you’re in season. I’m not getting hit by huge 300-pounders, but the heels…”
Travis Kelce recalled seeing what he referred to as “the recovery station” on the lodge.
“S**t, I’m telling you, dude, the similarities were crazy,” Kelce mentioned. “I was like, ‘Oh my Gosh. She does more than I do.’”
He added: “We related on how much torture we put our bodies through.”