“I’d be breaking all my rules to see you,” Taylor Swift famously sang in “SuperStar,” a track from the 2009 album Fearless. It’s a line that seems prescient now, as the billionaire singer is reportedly preparing to break one of her firmest and most serious rules to attend Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9.
As you of course know, the billionaire singer has been dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce since the team’s 2023 season, with Swift making her debut in an Arrowhead Stadium box that September. While neither Swift nor Kelce confirmed they were dating at the time, Taylor Swift later said that while that game was the first time we saw the couple in public.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift said of a July 26 episode of Kelce’s New Heights podcast in which Kelce complained that he was unable to meet Swift after the Kansas City stop of her Eras Tour.
“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” Travis said of his July 2023 attempt to meet the star. “So I was a little butt hurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”
“We started hanging out right after that,” Swift said a few months later. “We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
What followed was a season of Swift appearances at nearly every Chiefs game that didn’t conflict with her Eras Tour schedule, and some that almost did. Who can forget Swift’s wild rush from her final Tokyo show to last year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas, which was capped with her on-field assertion that “jet lag is a choice.” (A choice, I should note, that’s easier to make when one is free from the life-sucking drudgery of commercial travel.)
While the Chiefs’ 2024 season replicated the previous year’s success, Swift was a less consistent presence in the stands. This time, the issue was sometimes the tour, which ended in December, but an increase in security concerns was likely also to blame.
Her safety worries aren’t anything to sniff at. Above and beyond the threats from troubled fans that many famous folks face, Swift was the target of a credible terrorist threat last summer. Since then, President Donald Trump has announced that he hates her, and Elon Musk, the alleged brains and power behind the Trump throne, has creepily offered to impregnate her and has spread a false and altered image of Swift making a white supremacist gesture.
Given all that, you can see why Swift has restricted her game-day attendance this season to matches the Chiefs play at home, where her security team knows the lay of the land. But all that will change on February 9, when the Chiefs attempt to be the first team ever to win three Super Bowls in a row.
According to Page Six, Swift’s attendance has been confirmed to the publication, though no official announcement has been made. (Vanity Fair reached out to a Swift representative for comment, but has not received a response as of publication time.) If correct, this will be Swift’s first non-Arrowhead game this season, as well as her first visit to the Superdome since October, when her tour played three shows in the arena.
Keeping Swift safe when she’s the main event is one thing, but securing the singer in the melee of the Super Bowl is another. But according to Kelce, the folks tasked to protect her are the best in the business. “If I would have pushed him, he probably would have turned around and tased me,” Kelce said in 2023 after onlookers suggested he’d butted up against her security team. “They’re great, they’re great, they’re good people.”
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