Swift also sang the lyric “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me,” during the last song of the concert
Taylor Swift went “full throttle” to show her love for boyfriend Travis Kelce during the first London show of the Eras Tour — while he was in the crowd.
While performing “So High School” on June 21, the 14-time Grammy winner pulled out a surprise move that her boyfriend often employs during Kansas City Chiefs games: using an invisible bow to release an arrow.
“So High School” is a love song, with pointed lyrics about their relationship, in which Swift sings, “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle,” referring to his football talents and her songwriting prowess.
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— charly (@daylightlover28) June 21, 2024
In videos and photos captured by fans in the audience, Kelce, 34, can be seen dancing throughout his superstar girlfriend’s 46-song setlist and smiling when she pulled out the bow-and-arrow gesture.
Swift had previously used this move while performing “The Archer,” but that song was cut from the setlist earlier this year when she replaced older songs with tracks from her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
This is the first time the NFL star has seen her use the arrow gesture during “So High School.” Swift performed the song live in front of him for the first time during the May 12 show in Paris.
Another cute moment came at the end of the show, when Swift performed “Karma” as the concert’s closer. Swift, as she has done only a few times in the past whenever Kelce attends, changed the lyrics to, “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me.”
The sold-out show on Friday night attracted a star-studded crowd, including Jason and Kylie Kelce as well as Prince William and his children that he shares with Kate Middleton, among other stars.
This show, her first of three this weekend and eight overall in London this summer, was the latest in Swift’s long and often turbulent relationship with the English capital city.
As early as the singer’s Red era in the early 2010s, Swift name-dropped the city on the bonus track “Come Back…Be Here,” speculated to be about her British ex-boyfriend Harry Styles (“But you’re in London, and I break down / ‘Cause it’s not fair that you’re not around”).
Fast forward to Swift’s Reputation and Lover albums — which fans believe are about Swift’s six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn — and references to London were back in full swing. The city is featured as the backdrop for the music video for Reputation track “End Game,” and on Lover’s “London Boy,” Swift gives fans a taste of some of her favorite attractions, including Camden Market, Highgate and the West End.
The references continued into Swift’s latest studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, where she used city landmarks as metaphors to seemingly memorialize the end of her relationship with Alwyn (“So Long, London”) — as well as the months she was linked with British musician and The 1975 frontman Matty Healy in 2023 (“The Black Dog”).
On Friday, as part of the surprise song segment of the show, Swift performed a three-song mashup of “The Black Dog,” “Come Back…Be Here” and “Maroon.”
To celebrate Swift’s Eras Tour shows, the London Eye announced a “Taylor by Candlelight” show, where fans can listen to live orchestral performances of Swift’s music on the iconic Ferris wheel and take home an exclusive friendship bracelets afterward.
The city government also organized two public Swift-themed art installations, created an online guide for fans to find spots referenced in the singer’s music, and even designed a reimagined Tube map with train lines renamed to match each of Swift’s albums.
