In case you want proof that Taylor Swift has modified her methods, look no additional than the distinction between the previous few days and her habits circa 2016. Amid rampant hypothesis about her relationship, friendships, and political beliefs, Swift spent the weekend having enjoyable in public.
On Thursday, Swift was in her now-customary VIP field at boyfriend Travis Kelce’s common season opener with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. On Friday the couple dined out at Lucali in Brooklyn. Come Saturday, the 2 attended supermodel Karen Elson and Electrical Woman Studios proprietor Lee Foster’s marriage ceremony (in an off-white Zimmerman dress, no much less), and on Sunday, Swift and Kelce headed to Queens for the U.S. Open, the place they had been something however inconspicuous. Swift, in a purple and white linen gown from Reformation, sang and danced with a Gucci-clad Kelce, and even caught up with fellow NFL WAG Brittany Mahomes for a fast, headline-generating hug. Swift, who’s famously adept at staying out of the highlight when she needs to, is defiantly dwelling her life, having a great time the place all of us can see it.
That is particularly notable when you think about what she’s stated up to now about feeling like she wanted to go darkish in response to public criticism. In her 2020 Netflix doc, Miss Americana, she described her 2016 disappearing act like this: “No one bodily noticed me for a yr. That’s what I assumed they wished,” she stated. “I needed to deconstruct a whole perception system, toss it out, and reject it. It woke me up from consistently feeling I used to be preventing for folks’s respect. It was happiness with out anybody else’s enter.”
A lot was made from Swift sitting individually from Brittany Mahomes at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday, opting as a substitute to root for the house workforce alongside Kelce’s mother and father, simply as Brittany has come underneath hearth for her political beliefs: She apparently appreciated after which unliked an Instagram submit from Donald Trump. The Republican presidential nominee took discover and thanked Brittany for her “help” in a current social media submit.
Swift has spoken out towards Trump up to now, endorsing Joe Biden in 2020 whereas accusing Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your complete presidency,” however has not voiced a stance on the 2024 election. Patrick Mahomes has declared himself the Switzerland of America, saying that he is not going to publicly endorse a candidate however as a substitute typically encourage folks to vote. Brittany, aside from her liking and unliking and subsequent obscure tweet pleas for everybody to simply be good, hasn’t issued an announcement.
A supply accustomed to the pair’s friendship famous to Vainness Truthful that folks can have completely different political concepts or beliefs and nonetheless be buddies.
Taylor Swift, Brittany Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes on the 2024 US Open.MediaPunch/Bauer-Griffin
