Taylor Swift set fans into a tailspin after announcing her 12th studio album on Wednesday – but not all those who listened to the multi-hour podcast extravaganza were charmed by the singer.
The Eras Tour hitmaker, 35, released the cover and track list for her upcoming album, The Life Of A Showgirl, on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, with excited fans thrilled to see her collaborating with her beau.
The fiercely private star gave a peek into her relationship during the episode, as they packed on the PDA while sat next to each other, giving some insight into their high-profile relationship.
During the episode, the Grammy-award winning artist schooled her boyfriend, and his co-host and brother Jason Kelce, on numerology, Shakespeare and showed off her vocabulary.
However, some have slammed the artist for treating The Chiefs tight end like he was a child, taking to social media to share their thoughts.
‘The way Taylor speaks is unnatural like she’s a pretentious alien struggling to pass for human,’ one Reddit user declared.
Another compared her to a ‘my know-it-all friend’ they had in in middle school who ‘got a thesaurus for Christmas at 12 and suddenly discovered four syllable words that she would just inject into every sentence possible.’
‘This is giving me baby talking to my cat. “Oh, you’re so stupid! You‘re so cute and stupid! Just a tiny braincell! Such a cute stupid baby!”‘ someone else joked.
The singer released the cover and tracklist for her 12th studio album on Wednesday, while appearing on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s, 35, New Heights podcast
‘It’s giving him being slow, and her treating him like a dumb pet,’ declared another.
During the podcast, Kelce praised his girlfriend for using ‘big words,’ with the singer replying with a loving ‘you’re handsome.’
While the couple – who have been dating since 2023 – had plenty of people declaring their relationship ‘couple goals’ on the podcast, they also had some dubious responses.
‘Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are like if I were to picture my nightmare relationship that’s exactly how it would look. Beer pong? Bread puns?? Human exclamation point ? Numerology ?? Kill me,’ an exasperated user wrote.
‘I was trying not to scratch my eyes out when he asked what numerology was…you can’t like…critically think for two seconds at what that might have to do with?? Really? There is literally no way,’ someone else said.
‘Always knew the Swifties were insufferable because of Taylor Swift,’ snarked another.
Other people suggested that Swift was too intelligent for Kelce.
‘I think Taylor Swift probably is very smart but to be fair Travis Kelce probably thinks anyone who can read is a genius,’ a Reddit user wrote.
During the episode, the Grammy-award winning artist schooled her boyfriend, and his co-host and brother Jason Kelce , on numerology, Shakespeare and showed off vocabulary
The Grammy winner alluded to Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, with the opening song on her record, titled ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’, as well as her album cover
However, some have slammed the artist for treating The Chiefs tight end like he was a child, taking to social media to share their thoughts
‘Travis Kelce is actually King of the Himbos and simps and I hope he becomes a role model for every dumb white man,’ joked someone else.
‘She is just sooooo much smarter like incredibly smarter than them and I don’t know how she stands hanging out with them for more than 38 seconds at a time bc she’s had to explain herself about 113 times this whole show,’ said another.
The Grammy winner alluded to Shakespeare with the opening song on her record as well as the album cover. Swift also revealed that she had to give Kelce a crash course on the plot of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, as he’s never read it.
While showing off the vinyl to the Kelce brothers, the singer shared that the first track is titled ‘The Fate Of Ophelia.’
Ophelia is a character from Hamlet. She is the love interest of Prince Hamlet, and tragically dies by drowning in a brook.
After Swift announced the name of the first track on the podcast, her boyfriend jokingly asked his brother, ‘Do you know what Fate of Ophelia is?’
Meanwhile the singer looked at the athlete while smiling and asked, ‘You want to talk about Hamlet?’
‘I don’t want to get Jason all riled up,’ the Kansas City Chiefs tight end replied.
Swift then told Jason that her boyfriend ‘might not have read Hamlet’ but that she ‘explained it to him.’
‘Don’t tell my middle school English teacher I didn’t read it. Because I definitely was supposed to,’ the athlete quipped.
After his brother poked fun at him, Kelce replied, ‘It’s alright, I watched the Lion King.’
‘See, he knows what Hamlet is,’ Swift concluded, referencing how the Disney animated musical was inspired by the play.
The football star’s brother was surprised by this, asking, ‘Wait, Lion King is based off Hamlet?’
‘Yes!’ Swift exclaimed.
The hitmaker’s new album will see a huge change in mood after she revealed a very sexy cover for her upcoming album, one of which showed her posing provocatively as she bit her finger.
Swift confirmed that the album will be released on October 3 – just over a year and a half after the release of her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department.
In the cover, Swift flashed the flesh in a skimpy green jeweled bodysuit while submerged in water in what appeared to be a bathtub.
