Taylor Swift has made her U.S. late-night return to promote her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl.
The pop star stopped by Monday’s 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’s latest single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” decked out in his own showman attire.
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Swift chatted about her recent engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Fallon joked he was being “blinded” by Swift’s ring, which she showed off to the host and camera. She joked that going on Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, was a “distraction” to not notice that the backyard was being decorated for the big proposal.
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’t tell pal Selena Gomez that she “beat” Swift to the altar during a speech at Gomez’s recent wedding. “I did not make it about me,” she told Fallon.
She also addressed the speculation that she turned down the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show because of a dispute over owning the footage. “No,” she told Fallon when he asked her if that’s why she didn’t want to take on the job, adding that Jay-Z and his team have always been good to her.
“[The truth is] that I’m in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field,” she continued. Swift was frank about the fact that she was “too locked in” on Kelce’s season to be thinking about that.
The rumor — unfortunately for Ed Sheeran — that was true is that the Play singer found out about Swift’s engagement online. “He doesn’t have a phone,” 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’s not in her recent texts.
In another game, Swift shared some of her “lasts” with Fallon, giving some insight into her recent pop culture consumption. Her last text was Gomez, of course. She shouted out Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards contender One Battle After Another as the last film she saw — 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. “We are so lucky to be alive at the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson,” she told Fallon and the crowd.
She also gave pop star Tate McRae’s latest single “Tit for Tat” 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.
Monday’s show marks Swift’s seventh appearance on the show over the years. While the appearance was strictly billed as an interview — rock band The Format was the episode’s musical guest — the singer and Fallon played tracks off of Showgirl and broke them down. The crowd sang along to “Opalite,” “Wood” and “The Fate of Ophelia.” Swift cheekily told the crowd that “Wood,” her horniest track to date, started off innocent.
“I 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’s out in the world,” told Fallon on Monday’s show about the album as a whole. She noted that Tortured Poets was essentially the opposite.
Swift took some time during Monday’s show to praise Fallon, telling the host that everyone loves coming on the show. Fallon took time to praise the singer right back.
Swift’s 12th album, produced and written by the singer herself along with hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback, was thought to be a return to some of her most standard pop albums, like 1989, but it instead managed to be the love child of Evermore and Midnights. 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.
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’s 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’s Eras tour.
The Grammy Award-winner’s release event — not fully classified as a film or a documentary — earned an estimated $33 million at the domestic box office and an additional $13 million worldwide, bringing its grand total of $46 million globally.
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