Taylor Swift stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (October 6), making her first U.S. 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 rumors 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 broken the post-1991 U.S. 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 Showgirl, featuring acoustic versions and demos from the album, on iTunes. She also premiered the music video for opening track “The Fate of Ophelia” at screenings of The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, a theatrical release that compiled together lyric videos and behind-the-scenes footage. Watch the video below.
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