Taylor Swift has made her U.S. late-night return to promote her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n
The pop star stopped by Monday\u2019s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Swift, who was all blinged out in a sparkly silver dress, gave the host a big hug before sitting down to chat all things Showgirl. Fallon kicked off the show dancing to Swift\u2019s latest single, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d decked out in his own showman attire.<\/p>\n
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Swift chatted about her recent engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Fallon joked he was being \u201cblinded\u201d by Swift\u2019s ring, which she showed off to the host and camera. She joked that going on Kelce\u2019s podcast, New Heights, was a \u201cdistraction\u201d to not notice that the backyard was being decorated for the big proposal.<\/p>\n
Later, in a game about the many rumors that swirl around the pop star, she and Fallon put some things to bed. Swift clarified through the game that she didn\u2019t tell pal Selena Gomez that she \u201cbeat\u201d Swift to the altar during a speech at Gomez\u2019s recent wedding. \u201cI did not make it about me,\u201d she told Fallon.<\/p>\n
She also addressed the speculation that she turned down the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show because of a dispute over owning the footage. \u201cNo,\u201d she told Fallon when he asked her if that\u2019s why she didn\u2019t want to take on the job, adding that Jay-Z and his team have always been good to her.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The truth is] that I\u2019m in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field,\u201d she continued. Swift was frank about the fact that she was \u201ctoo locked in\u201d on Kelce\u2019s season to be thinking about that.<\/p>\n
The rumor \u2014 unfortunately for Ed Sheeran \u2014 that was true is that the Play singer found out about Swift\u2019s engagement online. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have a phone,\u201d Swift jumped in to clarify that it was nothing against Sheeran, who she emphasized is an important person in her life. She explained the elaborate way Sheeran can FaceTime, admitting that she forgot because he\u2019s not in her recent texts.<\/p>\n
In another game, Swift shared some of her \u201clasts\u201d with Fallon, giving some insight into her recent pop culture consumption. Her last text was Gomez, of course. She shouted out Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s awards contender One Battle After Another as the last film she saw \u2014 she got extremely excited about Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor, jokingly asking how they were going to be able to split the Oscar in half. \u201cWe are so lucky to be alive at the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson,\u201d she told Fallon and the crowd.<\/p>\n
She also gave pop star Tate McRae\u2019s latest single \u201cTit for Tat\u201d an endorsement as the last song she listened to. As for the last Taylor Swift song she listened to, it was The Tortured Poets Department; the singer explained her new album tradition is to listen to her last album in full.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s show marks Swift\u2019s seventh appearance on the show over the years. While the appearance was strictly billed as an interview \u2014 rock band The Format was the episode\u2019s musical guest \u2014 the singer and Fallon played tracks off of Showgirl and broke them down. The crowd sang along to \u201cOpalite,\u201d \u201cWood\u201d and \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia.\u201d Swift cheekily told the crowd that \u201cWood,\u201d her horniest track to date<\/a>, started off innocent.<\/p>\n \u201cI think this has been the most well-matched era in terms of where my life was when I wrote it and then where I am now when it\u2019s out in the world,\u201d told Fallon on Monday\u2019s show about the album as a whole. She noted that Tortured Poets was essentially the opposite.<\/p>\n Swift took some time during Monday\u2019s show to praise Fallon, telling the host that everyone loves coming on the show. Fallon took time to praise the singer right back.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s 12th album, produced and written by the singer herself along with hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback, was thought to be\u00a0a return to some of her most standard pop albums<\/a>, like\u00a01989, but it instead managed to be the love child of\u00a0Evermore\u00a0and\u00a0Midnights. The album sold 2.7 million copies on release day (Oct. 3), making that day alone her largest week ever, according to Luminate via Billboard.<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to the album, Swift released a cinematic companion over the weekend, which included a chance to see the music video for the album\u2019s lead single, The Fate of Ophelia, before its online release Sunday. Swift directed the video, which was filmed by frequent collaborator and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and features choreography from famed choreographer Mandy Moore, who worked on the singer\u2019s Eras tour.<\/p>\n The Grammy Award-winner\u2019s release event \u2014 not fully classified as a film or a documentary \u2014 earned an estimated $33 million at the domestic box office and an additional $13 million worldwide, bringing its grand total of $46 million globally.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has made her U.S. late-night return to promote her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,18040,1236,56940,22280,55887,4915,54275,4144],"class_list":["post-206749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-selena-gomez","tag-showgirl","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}