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Business Insider
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- Business Insider
7 takeaways from Taylor Swift's appearance on the 'New Heights' podcast
Taylor Swift sent Swifties into a frenzy this week with the news that she'd be a guest on the "New Heights" podcast, which is hosted by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce. The nearly two-hour episode premiered on Wednesday evening and has racked up over seven million views at the time of writing. Her debut on the show was full of revelations, from the toll of touring to her Easter egg rules and even an album announcement. Here are seven standout moments from the conversation. 1. Swift said she was in a "state of perpetual physical discomfort" on the Eras Tour. Performing night after night onstage wasn't easy. The singer said that she was "in a state of perpetual physical discomfort" and had to undergo "a lot of physical therapy" while on the road. The Eras Tour consisted of 149 shows held across 21 countries. On average, each concert lasted about three hours and fifteen minutes. "It's really just prioritizing the fans' experience before anything else," Swift said. 2. She designed her Eras Tour shows to feel like "you're scrolling in an algorithm." Swift said she wanted to weave elements of musical theater, Broadway, ballet, and opera-style scenery into her Eras Tour, with the goal of showing fans "things they hadn't necessarily seen before, all in one concert." "But I wanted to do it at the highest intensity. Rapid fire. You are seeing something new every 15 to 30 seconds, and so it feels like you're scrolling in an algorithm," Swift said. The singer added that when she heard about the reports of her fans experiencing " post-concert amnesia," she took it as proof that the design of the show had worked. "I think we did it. Nailed it. That's genuine. I wasn't even shooting for that goal when they're like, 'I saw so many things and I experienced a state of euphoria that I now don't remember what happened to me.' I was like, oh my god," Swift said. 3. She has been saving up to buy her music masters since she was a teenager. Swift bought back her masters earlier this year. On the podcast, the singer said she had been saving for it for a long time. "Since I was a teenager, I've been actively saving up money to buy my music back and to ever own it in the first place because it's usually the label that owns it," Swift said. "I've always wanted this to happen." She added that she sent her mother and her brother to represent her during the meeting with Shamrock Capital, a private equity firm that owned her music masters. Billboard reported that she paid $360 million for them. 4. She explained the rules behind the Easter eggs she hides for fans. If you know, you know. But if you don't, all's good — Swift took the time to explain the rules behind her Easter eggs. "Well, I have some parameters," Swift said. "There are dos and don'ts, right? I'm never going to plant an Easter egg that ties back to my personal life." The singer said that it's "always going to be" related to her music. "Something that you don't know I'm saying for a specific reason that you'll hear later, and you'll go back and be like, oh my God," Swift said. Her favorite Easter egg moment came in the commencement speech she delivered in 2022 when she received an honorary doctorate from NYU. "I put so many lyrical Easter eggs in that speech that when the 'Midnights' album came out after, the fans were like, 'The whole speech was an Easter egg,'" she said, adding that she found it fun because her fans found it fun. She also said she loves numerology, math, and dates. However, they are just a bonus for those who want to find them, and they're not essential to the listening experience. 5. She and Travis Kelce learned key lessons from each other on how to handle media scrutiny. Swift said she's developed a thick skin over the course of her career. "I've been in the music industry for 20 years. It's pretty hard to hurt my feelings at this point," she said. On the podcast, both Swift and Travis Kelce noted that they've taken cues from each other in handling the intense public attention on their relationship. "Her being so calm, cool, collected, and so real and understanding about everything that's going on really made me grow up real fast in that aspect of things," Travis Kelce said. In contrast, Swift said that his sense of humour helps her stay unfazed. "If he's seeing things and he thinks it's funny, and it doesn't even affect his day at all, that's really completely bled into the way that I metabolize these things," Swift said. "It's at a point where something can be about me — my name can be in the actual headline — and it can still be none of my business," Swift said. "People might be out here doing too much, doesn't mean I have to do a damn thing." 6. She ignores social media chatter about her personal life. Swift said she rarely pays attention to online commentary about her. In today's social media-driven world, many people tie their identity to online feedback, but she values constructive criticism instead. "Give me constructive criticism all day. I will take it, it'll fuel me, it's helpful," Swift said. However, she has seen many people let a single negative comment ruin their entire day. "And I just want to say to them, you should think of your energy as if it's expensive, as if it's a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it," Swift said. "Not everyone has invested in you in order to be able to have the capital for you to care about this because what you spend your energy on, that's the day." 7. Swift revealed details about her new album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift unveiled her new album cover and tracklist during the podcast, sharing them simultaneously on social media. She said her new album is inspired by her experience while on the Eras Tour, and the tracklist includes 12 songs — one of which is a duet with Sabrina Carpenter.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Travis Kelce Says Dating Taylor Swift Still Feels Normal: ‘We're Just Two People That Are in Love'
Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift feels more like the 1989 deep cut 'You Are in Love' than the camera-flashing chaos of 'Blank Space.' When asked how they keep their romance alive while navigating being in the public eye, the Kansas City Chiefs player told GQ, 'Whenever I'm with her, it feels like we're just regular people. When there is not a camera on us, we're just two people that are in love.' Kelce and Swift began dating in 2023, when he was fresh off of his team's Super Bowl LVII win and Swift was in the early months of the career-spanning Eras Tour. Some believed they witnessed the couple hard-launch their relationship when Swift attended a Chiefs game after being publicly courted by Kelce, but of course, they had been dating privately for a while before then. 'It can be perceived as something else because of how much it is talked about and how much we are tracked whenever we do go out,' Kelce said. 'It happened very organically, even though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It still happened very organically.' More from Rolling Stone 13 Taylor Swift Books to Buy Before You Can Get Your Hands on 'The Life of a Showgirl' Swifties Uncover Years' Worth of Easter Eggs After 'The Life of a Showgirl' Reveal Taylor Swift Curates Spotify Playlist Ahead of New LP 'The Life of a Showgirl' He added, 'Nothing I've ever done has been a controlled, organized process. When I say it was so organic, we fell in love just based off the people we were sitting in a room together with. We are two fun-loving people who have the morals to appreciate everyone for who they are. We share all those values. It kind of just took the fuck off.' Their mutual understanding of how to navigate the media landscape is something Kelce values in their relationship. 'I hadn't experienced somebody in the same shoes as me, having a partner who understands the scrutiny, understands the ups and downs of being in front of millions,' he said. There was also overlap in the physical demands of their respective careers. 'That was very relatable, seeing how exhausted she would get after shows,' Kelce added. 'She may not think of herself as an athlete. She will never tell anyone that she is an athlete. But I've seen what she goes through. I've seen the amount of work that she puts on her body, and it's mind-blowing.' Kelce managed to catch a few shows on the Eras Tour, waiting in the wings as Swift tweaked her lyrics to shout out 'the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me.' He even joined her onstage in London as a dancer during 'I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.' He's witnessed firsthand how grueling those three-hour-long shows could be. 'To go out on a stage, on a computer, essentially, for three hours. The [Eras Tour] floor is literally—I've seen underneath that thing. It is a football-field-sized computer,' Kelce said. 'You take that into Singapore, where it is scorching hot, and all of a sudden you're feeling the fumes from the computer and you're feeling the fumes from the sun and you're doing a show for three hours with a lot of energy, bringing it every single song. That is arguably more exhausting than how much I put in on a Sunday, and she's doing it three, four, five days in a row.' Swift has been to her fair share of Chiefs games, now, too. 'I sort of made her a football fan,' Kelce said. 'She is the most engulfed fan now. She knows what the injury reports look like. She understands what special situations are, third and short—all these things because she just naturally loves to hear about my job.' He enjoys the balance of showing up for each other. 'I get to be the plus one,' he said. 'I get to go and be that fan. Because I am a fan. I'm a fan of music. I'm a fan of art. And it's so cool that I get to experience her being that plus one for me on the football field…. I feel that same enjoyment every time she comes to my shows.' Kelce is also learning the dynamism of performance from Swift. 'Whenever I get in front of a crowd, I feel like I've got to be like, 'Woooo!' Like, excited, bringing the energy. Then I saw that coolness and that calmness and that relatability that she is so good at presenting,' he said. 'I really grabbed that. Like, man, I can use that side of entertainment as well. It's not just always being the guy that brings the energy and creates these exciting moments.' 'People gravitate towards how she performs and how she makes it feel like the entire stadium is in this little room with her,' he continued. 'She is so good at mesmerizing everybody and making everybody feel like it's an intimate situation. I think that alone — there is so much calm and coolness. She's beautiful. She's up there making everyone feel at ease.' Later this week, Swift will appear alongside Kelce as a special guest on New Heights, the podcast he hosts with his brother Jason Kelce. In the teaser for the episode, the singer-songwriter announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Kicking off the rollout together, Kelce is getting another look into how Swift is always 'setting goals for herself and exceeding the expectations and really captivating the world in that regard.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
New York Post
2 hours ago
- New York Post
‘New Heights' podcast with Taylor Swift returns — hours after ‘glitch'
Wednesday's highly anticipated 'New Heights' podcast featuring special guest star Taylor Swift resumed late Wednesday night after a glitch interrupted its live premiere on YouTube. More than 1 million people were watching the 14-time Grammy winner discuss the theme of her new album, 'The Life of a Showgirl' — a 12-track album that will be released on Oct. 3 — when the livestream went dark about one hour and 44 minutes in. The show returned at 12:37 a.m. ET on Aug. 14 after the 'New Heights' X account shared the link to the show and said 'WE ARE BACK!!!!' with a heart on fire emoji. Advertisement 3 Taylor Swift was discussing the meaning behind her new album, 'The Life of a Showgirl,' on the 'New Heights' podcast when it suddenly stopped due to a glitch on YouTube on August 13, 2025. YouTube/New Heights When the show went down, the podcast account posted on X, 'We hit a glitch but will be back shortly!!!' 'Shoutout all the 92%ers and swifties for actually helping us break the internet.' Advertisement Fever superstar Caitlin Clark recognized the power of the Swifties and pondered the possibility of a crash earlier in the day. 'Are we sure YouTube isn't going to crash tonight?' Clark wrote on X Wednesday afternoon. Prior to the glitch, Swift revealed the cover art of 'The Life of a Showgirl' before sharing the track list. Advertisement Boyfriend Travis Kelce said he knows a lot about the album, teasing it's 'upbeat' and differs from her most recent album, 'The Tortured Poets Department,' which dropped last April. 'Life is more upbeat,' Swift said while smiling at the three-time Super Bowl champ. 3 Taylor Swift and Travis were adorably flirty during her guest appearance on the 'New Heights' podcast was discussing the meaning behind her new album, 'The Life of a Showgirl,' on the 'New Heights' podcast on August 13, 2025. YouTube/New Heights Swift explained that the album cover for 'The Life of a Showgirl,' which features a glamorous shot of the singer floating in a bathtub clad in a bedazzled stage dress, represents 'the end of my night' when she exits the stage following a physically demanding performance, a la her three-hour Eras Tour set. Advertisement 'So when I'm on tour, I have the same day every single day. … And my day ends with me in a bathtub, not usually in a bedazzled dress,' she said. 'I wanted to sort of like glamorize all the different aspects of how that tour felt. And that's how that felt to like be at the end of the night when all this has gone down. You won't be able to get to bed till four in the morning after this. But you had to jump through 50 million hoops in this obstacle course that is your show. And you did it. You got two more in a row. But you did it tonight. 3 Taylor Swift's new album, 'The Life of a Showgirl,' will be released in October. taylorswift Instagram 'And the reason I wanted to have sort of like an offstage moment as the main album cover is because this album isn't really about what happened to me on stage. It's about what I was going through offstage. So I didn't want to have like the lights are bright, I'm on the stage as the main album cover. It's just this. This, to me, tells more of what the actual content, lyrically, of the album are.' Swift said she worked on the album in Europe last summer as she performed the international leg of the Eras Tour. The performances concluded in Canada in December.
