{"id":63490,"date":"2025-10-07T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/63490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:05:07","slug":"taylor-swift-says-she-wont-play-super-bowl-halftime-show-because-of-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/63490\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift says she won\u2019t play Super Bowl Halftime Show because of Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation company has produced the Super Bowl Halftime Show since 2020.<\/p>\n
The Life of a Showgirl singer noted that watching Kelce on the field in a game of \u201cviolent chess\u201d means she wouldn\u2019t want to dilute the experience by worrying about her own gig.<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift says her decision was based on wanting to focus on Travis Kelce’s performance on the field. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThat 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you imagine if he\u2019s out there every single week putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I\u2019m like, \u2018I wonder what my choreo should be?<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018I think we should do two verses of Shake it Off into Blank Space into Cruel Summer, would be great.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Fate of Ophelia hitmaker also made sure to clarify that the decision was her own, and Kelce would support her if she wanted to play the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThis is nothing to do with Travis, he would love for me to do it. I\u2019m just too locked in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell insisted he would \u201cwelcome\u201d Swift performing at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
He told the Today show: \u201cWe would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent. And obviously she would be welcome at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation company has produced the Super Bowl Halftime Show since 2020. The Life of a Showgirl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17517,51237,156,51238,11209,111,139,69,1118,10538,520,312,20863,1305,313,11208,163,4942,102,14443],"class_list":["post-63490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-because","tag-bowl","tag-entertainment","tag-halftime","tag-kelce","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-play","tag-relationship","tag-says","tag-she","tag-show","tag-super","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-travis","tag-with","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}