Taylor Swift actually is a mastermind as a result of her “So Excessive College” Eras Tour routine seems to be suffering from Travis Kelce references.
Swift, 34, added a snippet of “So Excessive College” — a Tortured Poets Division music that seemingly shouts out Kelce, 34, and their love story — to her live performance setlist on Thursday, Could 9. “So Excessive College” got here shortly after a efficiency of “However Daddy I Love Him,” as Swift and her backup dancers moved from middle stage to a set of stadium-caliber bleachers.
Swift’s followers have since identified that the dancers’ poses all corresponded to totally different reactions that the pop star had whereas attending Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs NFL video games this previous season. In keeping with a fan-made graphic circulating on X, every performer appeared to tackle a distinct pose of Swift’s.
One dancer down in entrance was seen pointing instantly forward and it has been presumed that she was mimicking Swift pointing at Kelce at February’s Tremendous Bowl. One other dancer leaned ahead, resting a hand on his chin. Swift had accomplished the identical at a 2023 Chiefs vs. Packers away recreation.
Different followers identified that two of Swift’s dancers even appeared to hug, very like how she embraced Brittany Mahomes (the spouse of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes) at a number of residence video games within the fall.
There additionally seemed to be extra soccer references within the “So Excessive College” set-up, with followers clocking that the stadium lights seemed like ones in a sports activities venue. Plus, Swift and her dancers’ choreography appeared to instantly reference a number of of Kelce’s landing dances and the “swag browsing” routine that Chiefs followers do to hype up the gamers. (Swift notably “swag-surfed” with Brittany, 28, throughout a January playoff recreation.)
As Swift started her European tour leg on Thursday, Kelce has been supporting her from afar. (He’s at present filming FX present Grotesquerie in Los Angeles.)
“LFG!” Kelce commented on Swift’s guitarist Paul Sidoti’s Instagram publish about resuming the Eras Tour reveals.
Swift and Kelce have been relationship since summer season 2023, incessantly supporting each other’s respective careers. Simply as Swift attended 13 of Kelce’s NFL video games, he has stepped out at a number of Eras live shows throughout his NFL offseason.
“Once you say a relationship is public, meaning I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re displaying up for one another, different persons are there and we don’t care,” Swift informed TIME in her 2023 Individual of the Yr profile. “The other of that’s it’s a must to go to an excessive quantity of effort to verify nobody is aware of that you just’re seeing somebody. And we’re simply pleased with one another.”
Kelce has since hinted that he plans to attend future Eras Tour reveals, which Swift will carry out throughout Europe and the UK all through the summer season. North American reveals resume in October.