{"id":621520,"date":"2026-10-05T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621520\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:24:09","slug":"chrissie-hynde-praises-taylor-swifts-song-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621520\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissie Hynde Praises Taylor Swift’s Song ‘Cleveland!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn new song \u201cCleveland!,\u201d Taylor Swift<\/a> gives her critics express permission to hate all they like on her, but Chrissie H<\/a>ynde<\/a> has only positive things to say about the pop star and the track.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Friday (Oct. 2) post on Instagram, The Pretenders frontwoman gave fans an update, a chunk of which was devoted to Swift\u2019s loved-up Ohio-themed The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore track. \u201cI was thrilled to hear Taylor Swift\u2019s new song, Cleveland,\u201d Hynde wrote. \u201cNow there\u2019s a girl who stays on the cutting edge\u2026.in fact, she might be the only person in history who has actually written a song about Cleveland.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlthough come to think of it, I did commemorate Cleveland on my first album in the song, Precious,\u201d she continued. \u201cPerhaps Taylor is trying to get a leg up in her career by emulating yours truly\u2026\u2026 although I strongly suspect it has more to do with her new hunk of a husband, a Cleveland native.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCleveland!\u201d is indeed quite transparently about Swift\u2019s spouse, Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end was born and raised in the Cleveland Heights area, and the song\u2019s lyrics find the 14-time Grammy winner singing about exploring the city with him while blocking out the rest of the world\u2019s negative opinions. Plus, the \u201cCleveland!\u201d music video features home footage of the couple driving in the car together as Kelce gives Swift the grand tour.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track is one of four new songs Swift dropped at the end of September as part of her Showgirl deluxe, which propelled the project back to No. 1<\/a> on the Billboard 200<\/a> for its non-consecutive 13th week on the Oct. 10-dated chart. Regardless, \u201cCleveland!\u201d was always destined to be a smash hit in Kelce\u2019s heart, with the football player calling it \u201ca banger\u201d<\/a> on a recent episode of his New Heights podcast.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEither way, hats off to Taylor for commemorating Akron\u2019s main competition\u2026. Cleveland Ohio,\u201d Hynde added. \u201cI certainly have myriad recollections of adventures in Cleveland.. it\u2019s a hell of a town.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee Hynde\u2019s post below.<\/p>\n

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