Will Taylor Swift be able to attend the Super Bowl in between her ‘Eras’ world tour?
With the Chiefs now on their way to the Super Bowl, there’s only one question that needs answering, ‘Will Taylor Swift be there for kick-off in Las Vegas?’
Swifties and Chiefs fans are now united in that their favorite people are going to the Super Bowl. At least that’s what the mass amounts of fans of pop star Taylor Swift will be hoping. As you know by now, the Chiefs will take on the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl meaning star tight end Travis Kelce will be playing in the big game. The problem is that his hugely famous pop star partner will be performing in Tokyo, Japan the day before. That’s a lot of ground to cover in a short time. Can she make it?
Taylor Swift faces a tight turnaround
You would have had to have been hiding under a rock to have missed how the love story between pop sensation Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce took over both the pop culture and sporting worlds these last few months. What started as a viral fascination with the soon-to-be A-list couple, soon became a monstrous marketing behemoth all of its own which saw the NFL tap a new audience - that’s you Swifites - record historic highs in TV ratings, and even see a significant increase in the number of female viewers. That’s all to say Taylor Swift’s union with the Chiefs’ star has been very good for business in the NFL.
With that in mind, you can probably guess that to have Swift attend the league’s biggest game with millions around the world watching would be a very big deal. The only problem is, that Swift being one of the world’s major pop stars has commitments of her own, namely her ‘Eras Tour’ which is currently in Japan and set for the final performance of its eastern leg in Tokyo on Saturday, February 10th. As you likely know, the Super Bowl is scheduled to kick off on Sunday, February 11th, at 6:30 p.m. ET. With Swift’s show set for 6:00 p.m. JST the day before, that does not leave a lot of time to get state-side. If there is an upside, it’s that Japan is 14 hours ahead of the East Coast meaning Swift will effectively be doing a bit of time travel.
OK, so how will it work for Taylor Swift?
Well, it’s definitely going to be about timing. Typically, Swift does not go on stage from the start of her show. So, if we assume that she’s on stage at 8:00 p.m. local time and performs for more than three hours, something she typically does, then she will be saying her thankyous and goodbyes around 11:00 p.m. local time. Given who she is, we can also assume that she won’t be queuing at the airport or flying on a commercial airline such that she could indeed make it back to the U.S.A. in time. On the other hand, getting to the game itself could be a little trickier. To be clear, a flight from Japan to Las Vegas would be somewhere between 10 and 12 hours, meaning she would arrive at around 10:00 am JST which translates to 8-10 p.m. ET on Saturday. Now, again, while that gives her more than enough time to make the game, it doesn’t account for how exhausted she will be, coming directly from performing on stage.
Performing has taken a toll on Taylor Swift
As an artist known for going all out for her fans, Swift has spoken out in the past about how taxing going from performance to performance can be and even more so when you’re the kind of performer who gives everything. To that end, she often requires quite some time to recover in the days after. “I do not leave my bed except to get food and take it back to my bed and eat it there,” Swift told Time magazine. “It’s a dream scenario. I can barely speak because I’ve been singing for three shows straight. Every time I take a step my feet go crunch, crunch, crunch from dancing in heels.” Is a stadium full of screaming fans the ideal place for the Grammy winner to be following such a long haul? Perhaps not, but her boyfriend playing in the Super Bowl is probably a good enough reason to make the effort.