Taylor Swift sat down for her first in-depth interview in years — and it did not disappoint. The 33-year-old superstar was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has paid attention to the news in 2023.
But what is surprising is how open the 12-time Grammy winner was during multiple sit-downs with the outlet, which perhaps is a nod to life with her new boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
“Over the years, I’ve learned I don’t have the time or bandwidth to get pressed about things that don’t matter. Yes, if I go out to dinner, there’s going to be a whole chaotic situation outside the restaurant. But I still want to go to dinner with my friends,” Swift shared. “Life is short. Have adventures. Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years — I’ll never get that time back. I’m more trusting now than I was six years ago.”
Swifties will have a field day with that last line as it likely references the singer’s ex-boyfriend of six years, Joe Alwyn. She all but disappeared from public life during their relationship but roared back into the spotlight in March with her “Eras Tour” and all that followed. Swift’s high-profile romance with Kelce seems to fit in nicely with where she’s at in her life, and she doesn’t hold back in talking about her beau.
The “Mastermind” singer’s Time cover story was filled with many delightful, shady and thought-provoking quotes. Here are the five standout moments.
Swift lifts the lid on Kelce timeline — and says it would’ve been ‘psychotic’ to have their first date play out on national TV, as some suspected.
In July, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end said he “threw the ball in [Swift’s] court” after attending her concert. Kelce revealed that he failed to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number and was bummed to learn she didn’t talk with people backstage.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift recalled. (For those wondering, “metal as hell” essentially means hard-core.) “We started hanging out right after that. So 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.”
The first game came in October when Swift was pictured in a box at Arrowhead Stadium to watch her boyfriend. She has been to five games in total, one in October becoming the most-watched Sunday game since the Super Bowl.
“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,” she added. Swift also said there’s nothing to hide with this relationship. (Cough, sorry, Alwyn.)
“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there, and we don’t care,” she declared. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”
Swift also “playfully” quipped: “Football is awesome, it turns out. I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
