Taylor Swift’s two-hour podcast debut, on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s “New Heights,” was chock-full of sweet nothings and tales from the stars’ love story as well as other peeks behind the curtain of the world’s busiest showgirl.
The highly anticipated episode of Kelce’s podcast with big brother Jason dropped Wednesday evening and, as of Thursday morning, has been viewed over 9.5 million times.
Here are the biggest revelations shared by the 35-year-old Grammy winner outside of announcing her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Easter eggs only ever nod to the professional.
Swifties know all too well that the “cardigan” crooner has a penchant for dispensing clues to fans through every available avenue — be it day-to-day fashion, lyrics and music video visuals. But, contrary to the hopes of Swift’s ardent fans, she clarified that she’ll only ever lay so-called Easter eggs to refer to music or other projects, never her personal life.
She did confirm that the orange door she walked through on the last night of the Eras Tour was indeed a nod to the color scheme of “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Swift recorded her upcoming album between Eras Tour shows.
Swift didn’t come out of her hiatus to record her upcoming album. Rather, she reunited with “Red” and “1989” collaborators Max Martin and Shellback in Sweden amid the European leg of the Eras Tour to do so.
Swift confirmed that it was an “electric” time in her life — probably as much to do with the record-breaking tour as her then-nascent relationship with Kelce — and the album reflects just that.
Swift’s parents are both recovering from surgery.
Both Scott and Andrea Swift are nicely recovering from what Swift joked were “upgrades” this summer.
The pop star’s father underwent a quintuple bypass and is sprightly as ever — even if he did spend crucial recovery hours FaceTiming friends instead of sleeping, per the doctor’s orders — while her mom got a knee replacement and is similarly on the mend, though maybe with less zest.
Swift and Kelce all but confirmed they live together, multiple times.
Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, also 35, repeatedly referred to hearing each other from across the house or the other room, including when Swift finally regained the masters of her first six albums.
She recalls the Super Bowl champ was playing video games when she called out for him, announced the happy news and collapsed into his arms.
The battle for the masters was a family affair.
Swift detailed the intricacies of trying to buy her masters, a years-long plight that used to be a daily “intrusive thought.”
Though not necessarily a priority for all artists, Swift said procuring full ownership has always been a goal of hers and now that she finally achieved that earlier this year — thanks to her mom and brother appealing to the venture capital firm, Shamrock — she’s grateful every day.
Swift lurks on sourdough bread blogs
The pop superstar revealed that she has a new baking obsession about twice a year. Now in the thick of a devotion to sourdough bread, Swift confessed that she lurks on blogs devoted to it — one upside to the internet she’ll concede while saying she largely stays off social media and never reads her DMs.
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