Taylor Swift Skipping Super Bowl Halftime Show Explained

Which seems antithetical, because wouldn’t the biggest sport in the United States and the producers of the most-watched live TV event of the year want to join forces and get the biggest pop star in the world?

The answer, as it turns out is, yes, in their wildest dreams. But Taylor revealed recently why she wasn’t ready to get in the game just yet. 

“Here’s the thing, Jay-Z has always been very good to me,” Taylor said of the musician, whose Roc Nation struck a partnership with the NFL in 2019, during her Oct. 6 appearance on The Tonight Show. “Our teams are really close. They sometimes will call and say, ‘How does she feel about the Super Bowl?’ And that’s not an official offer or like a conference room conversation—we’re really close, it’s like, ‘How does she feel about it in general?'”

But now that she’s rooting so hard for the guy on the Chiefs, it’s not on her Wi$h Li$t. 

As Taylor put it, “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 field. That is violent chess, that is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, the whole season, I am locked in on what that man is doing on the field.”