Taylor Swift Talks The Life of a Showgirl, Engagement, Super Bowl, and More on Fallon: Watch

Taylor Swift stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (October 6), making her first US late-night appearance since the release, on Friday, of The Life of a Showgirl. Below, watch her break down the themes behind several of the album’s songs, including an explanation of her much-maligned sex song “Wood.” She also chats about her friendship with Selena Gomez, the last film she saw (“We are so lucky to be alive at the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson,” she said of One Battle After Another), and her engagement to Travis Kelce.

Swift also took the chance to deny rumours that she turned down the Super Bowl halftime show over a dispute about owning the footage. “Jay-Z has always been very good to me,” she explained, adding that their business teams are close but there has not been “an official offer or a conference-room conversation.” She goes on, “We’re always able to tell him the truth, which is that I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field. Like, (football) is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous.… Can you imagine if he’s out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I’m like, ‘I wonder what my choreo should be?’”

The Life of a Showgirl has already broke the post-1991 US record for the most vinyl copies sold in a single week—a record Swift herself set with 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. The album is now vying for the overall sales week record, a distinction long held by Adele for 2015’s 25.

Over the weekend, Swift dropped a deluxe version of The Life of a Showgirlfeaturing acoustic versions and demos from the album. She also premiered the music video for the opening track “The Fate of Ophelia” at screenings of The Official Release Party of a Showgirla theatrical release that compiled together lyric videos and behind-the-scenes footage. Watch the video below.

Read “5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl,” plus Pitchfork’s track reviews of “Actually Romantic” and “Father Figure.”

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