Travis Kelce seems at Taylor Swift throughout Wednesday’s episode of New Heights, the podcast he cohosts along with his brother Jason Kelce.
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After days of anticipation, Taylor Swift revealed the duvet artwork and October launch date for her subsequent album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, in a wide-ranging podcast interview on Wednesday.
The singer, regardless of being famously forthcoming in her lyrics, has been comparatively quiet about her private life, together with her extraordinarily seen relationship with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce.
However she shared new particulars about their romance, her 21-month Eras Tour, her upcoming album and extra on a two-hour episode of New Heights, the podcast Kelce hosts along with his brother, retired fellow footballer Jason Kelce. It was her first look on their podcast — and a full-circle second.
“This podcast bought me a boyfriend, ever since Travis determined to make use of it as his private relationship app about two years in the past,” Swift stated, referring to the now-infamous July 2023 episode the place Kelce publicly expressed his curiosity after seeing her Eras Tour efficiency in Kansas Metropolis. Inside months, she was attending his video games.
The podcast can be what Swift used to announce her twelfth studio album, after teasing particulars on social media and organising a shock countdown clock. At 12:12 a.m. on Tuesday, New Heights posted a clip of Swift on the present, taking a blurred-out vinyl file out of a case emblazoned along with her initials.
The complete episode dropped on Wednesday night time, at which level Swift’s social media accounts shared the observe listing and album artwork.
Over 1 million folks tuned in dwell, forcing the stream to quickly glitch. The complete model was posted to YouTube, the place it had amassed greater than 10 million views as of Thursday morning. Listed below are a number of the largest takeaways from the episode.
What we find out about The Lifetime of a Showgirl
The Lifetime of a Showgirl will likely be launched on Oct. 3 — a date that followers observed occurs to fall on Nationwide Boyfriend Day and whose digits add as much as 13, Swift’s longtime fortunate quantity.
Swift confirmed on the podcast that she wrote the brand new album in Europe through the Eras Tour. It is the second album to return from the tour, as she additionally wrote 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division through the U.S. leg.
“I might do like three reveals in a row, I might have three days off, I might fly to Sweden, return to the tour. I used to be bodily exhausted at this level within the tour however I used to be so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating,” Swift stated, as Kelce added she was “actually residing the lifetime of a showgirl.”
Swift produced the album not with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff however with Swedish producers Max Martin and Shellback, whom she labored with earlier than on Purple (2012), 1989 (2014) and Fame (2017).
Swift additionally shared a picture of the tune’s titles, which embody “The Destiny of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Father Determine,” “Eldest Daughter,” “Damage the Friendship,” “CANCELLED!” and the titular observe that includes Sabrina Carpenter, who opened for Swift throughout a part of her tour.
The album’s orange and teal coloration theme, she defined, is as a result of “it appears like sort of energetically how my life has felt.”
“This album is about what was occurring behind the scenes in my interior life throughout this tour, which was so exuberant and electrical and vibrant,” she stated.
Swift described the songs as “bangers,” saying her most important objectives for the album have been “melodies that have been so infectious that you just’re nearly offended at it, and lyrics which are simply as vivid however crisp and targeted and fully intentional.”
And he or she promised there could be no additional songs or shock double album, as was the case with The Tortured Poets Division final yr.
“There’s not different ones coming,” she stated. “That is the file I have been eager to make for a really very long time.”
Swift shares new particulars of shopping for again her masters
The Lifetime of a Showgirl will likely be Swift’s first new album since she purchased again the rights to her grasp recordings in Might from Shamrock Capital — which she introduced in a letter to followers on the time however had not spoken publicly about till the podcast.
“It is at all times been an enormous factor for me,” Swift stated on the podcast. “Like since I used to be a young person, I have been actively saving up cash to purchase my music again.”
The personal fairness group acquired her masters from music government Scooter Braun, who purchased them in 2019 when he acquired Swift’s first music label, Huge Machine Label Group. That sparked her years-long quest to re-record her first six albums, releasing them as “Taylor’s Model” alongside beforehand unreleased vault tracks.
“It was so thrilling to get to have that chance, however … I considered not proudly owning my music day-after-day,” Swift stated.
After the Eras Tour, she stated, she despatched her mother and brother to fulfill with Shamrock Capital about probably shopping for again her masters outright. Swift, getting visibly emotional, stated her mother referred to as her just a few months later to inform her it had occurred.
“I simply very dramatically hit the ground, for actual, like truthfully simply began balling my eyes out,” Swift stated, including that the deal modified her life. “I take into consideration this day-after-day now however as a substitute of it being an intrusive thought that hurts me, it is: ‘I can not imagine this occurred, like how fortunate am I?'”
Swift’s sourdough period, and different takeaways
Swift and Kelce reminisced in regards to the early days of their romance, with Swift saying Kelce by no means reached out to her workforce after his podcast overture to attempt to meet her in Kansas Metropolis as a result of “he thought that ‘trigger he is aware of the elevator woman, that he may speak to her about simply getting all the way down to my dressing room.”
Whereas she joked that the transfer would not have labored, she did say Kelce’s heart-on-his-sleeve strategy made her really feel like she was in a John Hughes rom-com.
“I used to be like, ‘If this man is not loopy, which is an enormous if, that is type of what I have been writing songs about eager to occur to me since I used to be a young person,'” Swift stated.
Kelce responded: “And I used to be sitting there on the Eras Tour listening to each single a type of songs like, ‘I do know what she needs me to do.'”
The 2 say they bonded partially over the similarities of their careers.
“Our job is to entertain folks for three-plus hours in NFL stadiums,” Swift stated, with Kelce including they in contrast bodily remedy tales, particularly after Swift completed her grueling Eras Tour (“it was numerous being in a state of perpetual bodily discomfort”).
When requested how the couple deal with the general public fixation round their relationship, Swift stated she has realized not to have a look at what folks say about her on-line.
“I’ve so many pals or acquaintances or people who find themselves like, they will see one remark they do not like and it’ll wreck their day,” she stated. “And I simply wish to say to them, ‘It’s best to consider your power as if it is costly, as if it is a luxurious merchandise. Not everybody can afford it.'”
Swift stated she solely actually seems on the web “when Travis reveals me movies of otters on his Instagram algorithm” and for sourdough inspiration — a interest she stated she picked up at residence along with her mother and father as they recovered from their respective surgical procedures this summer time.
“The sourdough’s taken over my life in an enormous manner,” Swift stated. “I am actually speaking about bread 60% of the time now.”
