All the revelations as Taylor Swift appears on Travis Kelce's podcast
The Super Bowl winner and his brother, Jason Kelce, interview the megastar on today's episode of their New Heights sports podcast, with Swift set to unveil her upcoming twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl.
But there'll no doubt be plenty more to discuss in the more than one-hour long episode, which will go live at 9am AEST.
In a brief teaser clip, we learn Swift is all too aware of backlash to her NFL takeover, with diehard football fans becoming incensed by the media frenzy her attendance at Kansas City Chiefs games has generated over the past two years.
'As we all know, you guys have a lot of male sports fans that listen to your podcast,' Swift says.
'I think we all know that if there's one thing that male sports fans want to see in their spaces and on their screens, it's more of me.'
After several months flying under the radar, the US megastar re-emerged with a bang on Monday, announced as a special guest on this week's podcast.
Shortly after, her official website was updated teasing big news with a cryptic two-hour countdown, which ultimately resulted in news of a forthcoming album.
But fans were left wanting, with no new imagery, no release dates, and no details about a track list. Swift's website instead directs users to pre-order a The Life of a Showgirl vinyl or cassette, with shipping set for October.
No doubt this was all a deliberate strategy for Swifties to tune into the Kelce brothers' podcast.
What we have deciphered, thus far, is it certainly looks to have a pop, theatrical flare, with plenty of sparkles, and colours of orange and mint green featured heavily.
It's been heavily reported Swedish producer Max Martin – who has collaborated with Swift on several of her biggest pop tracks – co-produced the upcoming album.
Martin is also the mastermind behind some of the most iconic pop songs of this generation, including Britney Spears' Baby One More Time, Katy Perry's Roar, The Weeknd's Blinding Lights and Backstreet Boys'
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