Taylor Swift said she isn’t performing during next year’s Super Bowl because she is “locked in” on her fiancé, Travis Kelce, and his well-being while watching his games.
“I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field,” Swift said on Monday’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “Like that is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. The whole season I am locked in on what that man is doing on the field.”
She continued: “Can you imagine if he’s out there every single week putting his life on the line doing this very dangerous, very high pressure, high intensity sport, and I’m like, ‘I wonder what my choreo should be?’”
After Swift wrapped up her Eras Tour, the highest grossing tour of all time, fans immediately began speculating the next logical career step would be the halftime performance at the Super Bowl, especially because Kelce and the Chiefs have played in the last three Super Bowls.
Swift explained to Fallon that not performing at the Super Bowl has nothing to do with Kelce because he would love for her to do it.
The NFL announced last month that Bad Bunny will be the halftime performer.
Swift has been on a media tour promoting her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which came out last week. During her Monday night appearance, she showed off her engagement ring and explained that while she was recording her episode of Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, Kelce was having their backyard transformed to a luscious garden for the site of the engagement.
Swift announced her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end in August, sharing photos on Instagram with the caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Since the announcement, some fans have been concerned that Swift would not return to music after her wedding. She shot down that idea during her Monday interview on BBC Radio 2, calling it “shockingly offensive.”
“I love the person that I am with because he loves what I do, and he loves how much I am fulfilled by making art and making music,” Swift said. “That’s the coolest thing about Trav is that he is so passionate about what he does, that me being passionate about what I do ― it connects us. There’s no point in time where he’s going to be like, ‘I’m really upset that you’re still making music. The music thing that I signed up for that I knew you love, I thought you were going to stop doing that.’”
In the past, she has pondered the idea of retiring. In her 2019 Netflix documentary “Miss Americana,” Swift said her 2019 album “Lover” was “probably” one of her last opportunities to “grasp onto that kind of success.”
“As I’m reaching 30, I’m like I want to work really hard while society is still tolerating me being successful,” Swift, who is now 35, said in the documentary.
But that hasn’t been the case. Since “Lover,” Swift has released five new studio albums and four re-recorded albums in an effort to own her music. “Folklore” and “Midnights,” two albums she released after she turned 30, both went on to win Album of the Year at the Grammys, and “The Life of a Showgirl” broke multiple Spotify records in its first day, including the lead sing “The Fate of Ophelia” becoming “the most-streamed song in a single day in Spotify history.”
Swift’s film, “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,” which premiered last week and included the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” and lyric videos for the rest of the album, raked in $33 million domestically, leading the box office.
But even with all the success of her latest album, Swift said she has no plans to tour. Swift ended The Eras Tour in 2024 and said she is “so tired” when she thinks about touring again.
“I’m gonna be really honest with you,” Swift said on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday. “Like, I am so tired when I think about doing it again because I would want to do it really, really well again.”
