Taylor Swift joins Kelce brothers on “New Heights” podcast as she reveals upcoming album artwork
Taylor Swift appeared on the favored “New Heights” podcast alongside her boyfriend and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce and opened up about their relationship, shopping for again the grasp recordings of her first six albums, Easter eggs and her upcoming album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl.”
Swift appeared on the prerecorded podcast launched Wednesday, which is hosted by Travis Kelce and his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce. The episode marks the couple’s first complete media look.
“This podcast did loads for me,” Swift stated. “It gave me a boyfriend!”
Kelce attended Swift’s Eras Tour cease at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, in 2023. On the time, Kelce shared on the podcast, he tried to offer her a friendship bracelet along with his cellphone quantity; nonetheless, she by no means acquired it.
Swift stated Wednesday that the gesture made her really feel “like I used to be in an ’80s John Hughes film, and he was similar to, standing exterior of my window with a growth field being like, ‘I wish to date you.'”
Swift additionally spoke about shopping for again the grasp recordings from her first six studio albums. Swift described how she had needed to personal all her music after signing a file deal at age 15. She revealed that she despatched her mom and brother to Los Angeles to speak with non-public fairness firm Shamrock Capital, which owned the masters on the time, about shopping for them.
“A pair months after the Tremendous Bowl in Kansas Metropolis, I get a name from my mother,” Swift stated. “She’s like, ‘You bought your music.’ I very dramatically hit the ground for actual. Bawling my eyes out, weeping, like ‘Actually!?’ I stated to myself, ‘Go inform Travis in a traditional method,’ he was taking part in video video games, and he put his headset down. I used to be like, ‘I acquired my music again!’ And I used to be heaving crying. This modified my life.”
“I simply began crying, too,” Kelce stated. “I used to be simply so completely happy for you.”
Swift introduced her twelfth studio album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” on 12:12 a.m. Tuesday, after placing out the phrase on her web site. She revealed the duvet artwork on Wednesday and that the album might be launched on Oct. 3.
Since Swift started releasing music on the age of 15, she has snuck hidden messages, or Easter eggs, into her work, social media posts and movies that followers try to decipher on-line. Swift stated Wednesday that she is “by no means going to plant an Easter egg that ties again to my private life.”
“I’ve parameters. There’s do’s and dont’s,” Swift stated. “It factors to my music… It is one thing you do not know why I am saying for a particular cause, however then you definitely’ll look again and go, ‘Oh my God.'”
Swift revealed a latest Easter egg on the podcast concerning the descending orange door that appeared as a visible on the Eras Tour after the finale music, “Karma.”
“I would go away the stage each evening happening the elevator, raise,” Swift stated. “That is how each single Eras present ended — apart from the final one, the place I exited via a door, an orange door, to be particular. And that really was an Easter egg. Mainly the explanation why I selected to exit that method is as a result of I sort of needed to offer somewhat subliminal trace to the followers that I could also be leaving the Eras Tour period, however I used to be additionally getting into a brand new period.”
Swift stated her upcoming album “was one thing that I used to be engaged on whereas I used to be in Europe on the Eras Tour.”
“Actually residing the lifetime of a showgirl!” Travis Kelce added.
