{"id":283844,"date":"2025-10-07T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283844\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:19:07","slug":"taylor-swift-tackles-news-rumors-and-explains-wood-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283844\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift tackles news rumors and explains &#8216;Wood&#8217; on Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The audience cheered so loudly during Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, it felt like an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/12\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-reporter-personal-journey\/76711565007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eras Tour<\/a> in Studio 6B.<\/p>\n<p>For three full blocks, Fallon asked about her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, speaking at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/selena-gomez\/\" data-autotag=\"2ed7e5a4-eb65-4814-b494-44846f75cf32\" rel=\"noopener\">Selena Gomez<\/a>&#8216;s wedding and the inspiration behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/03\/taylor-swift-wood-travis-kelce-sexual-new-song\/85978395007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Wood.&#8221;<\/a> And Swift answered the hard questions.<\/p>\n<p>Before she came out, Fallon did a bedazzled tap dance with Bob Mackie-esque showgirls. After the show&#8217;s intro rolled, his monologue was riddled with Swift jokes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the hottest ticket in town,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Today I was on the phone with Pope Leo and said, &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry your holiness there is no more room.&#8217; I just want to thank all the Swifites around the world watching us tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The jokes kept flowing: &#8220;Even though it&#8217;s October, like everyone else, I spent the weekend looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/05\/unlocking-easter-eggs-taylor-swift-music-video-fate-ophelia\/86538991007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Easter eggs<\/a>. I listened to the album so many times this weekend. I think that I&#8217;m in love with Travis. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/live-story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/02\/taylor-swift-new-album-life-of-a-showgirl-release-updates\/86447099007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;The Life of a Showgirl&#8217;<\/a> is full of Shakespeare references and math, at this point, Taylor is basically the Department of Education. &#8230; Taylor broke multiple Spotify records. &#8230; Shakespeare was like, &#8216;I doth slayeth again.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fallon&#8217;s band chirped in when he tried to make a non-Swift joke, &#8220;Just stop wasting time and bring her out already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the audience erupted, she emerged from the blue curtains glistening in a silver Giuseppe Di Morabito dress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting blinded; congratulations on your engagement,&#8221; Fallon said. As the camera zoomed in on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/26\/taylor-swift-engagement-ring-travis-kelce-photos\/85834286007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rock<\/a> designed by Kindred Lubeck, Swift explained how Kelce proposed after the taping for the Aug. 13 podcast when she announced her 12th era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had it for a really long time before he gave it to me,&#8221; Swift said flashing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/26\/taylor-swift-engagement-ring-travis-kelce-photos\/85834286007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;old mine brilliant cut&#8221; diamond<\/a>. &#8220;\u200aHe&#8217;s just my favorite person I&#8217;ve ever met. No offense to everyone else, but the fact that this is the person that I get to hang out with every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fallon transitioned into the rumor mill reading off five rumors that made gossipy headlines about the singer. At least one was true:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turned down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/29\/list-super-bowl-halftime-shows-performers\/86416184007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>, because the NFL wouldn&#8217;t allow her to own her footage.<\/li>\n<li>Your close friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/11\/ed-sheeran-teases-move-to-nashville\/86097411007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> learned of her engagement like everyone else did. (Which was true. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have a phone,&#8221; she said.)<\/li>\n<li>In your speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/06\/taylor-swift-at-selena-gomez-benny-blanco-wedding\/85971704007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Selena Gomez&#8217;s wedding<\/a> you joked that Selena beat you to the alter. (She mentioned she did speak about the way her and Gomez dressed in 2008 when they met.)<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve been spotted walking a mystery dog in Florida.<\/li>\n<li>Travis Kelce can be heard harmonizing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/03\/taylor-swift-opalite-travis-kelce-favorite-song-showgirl\/85978379007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Opalite.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of the commercial break, the two engaged in a rapid-fire game.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The last person you texted? &#8220;Selena.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The last movie you saw? &#8220;&#8216;One Battle After Another&#8217;&#8230; \u200aWe are so lucky to be alive at the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The last fall related activity you did? &#8220;I baked cinnamon rolls the other day.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The last song of your own that you listened to not on the new album? &#8220;\u200aSo I listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/04\/18\/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-album-release-updates\/73149372007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;The Tortured Poets Department&#8217;<\/a> to say goodbye to it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The last song of any artist that you listened to? &#8220;Tate McRae&#8217;s got a brand-new song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-HEopHeHb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Tit for Tat.&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>The last person you said, &#8220;And, baby, that&#8217;s show business for you?&#8221; Without having an answer, she said it to Fallon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To end her portion of the show, Swift sat at a round table with Fallon who asked about the inspiration behind some of her tracks. They started with &#8220;Opalite&#8221; and transitioned to her provocative song &#8220;Wood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u200aI brought this into the studio and I was like, &#8216;I wanna sort of do a throwback kind of timeless sounding song,'&#8221; she said of the song that has made listeners blush and clutch their pearls. &#8220;It really started out in a very innocent place. I dunno what happened, man, once I got in there, we started vibing and I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Fallon have shared more than a decade of memorable late-night moments.<\/p>\n<p>Early appearances<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 6 marks her seventh time on &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&#8221; Swift has been sipping coffee on the late night show since Aug. 13, 2014, when the 24-year-old told Fallon she would be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards. He pressed her to divulge details on an upcoming project she was teasing \u2014 her fifth album &#8220;1989&#8221; \u2014 but she remained tight-lipped. Swift also appeared on Fallon&#8217;s sketch &#8220;Ew,&#8221; where he played a teenager with braces who spelled her name Sara &#8220;with no &#8216;h,&#8217; because h&#8217;s are ew.&#8221; Swift had her hair done up in colorful scrunchies and wore a Scramble letter necklace with her character&#8217;s name Natalie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a drawing that I made of a pegacorn, that is a unicorn and Pegasus in one. That is my invention of a drawing I made,&#8221; Swift said showing a glittery mythical creature.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do feel this bond,&#8221; Fallon said gesturing to himself and Swift when she returned in February 2015. He held up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljybsB1LwVY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Vogue cover of the singer<\/a> posing with model Karlie Kloss and explained how the two women played a game where they drew each other&#8217;s faces without ever looking down for Vogue.com. He asked Swift if they could do their own version.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the interview, Fallon played a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-nkRBlqHzA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit where he and Swift<\/a> would dance on New York City jumbotrons. In the skit, a camera catches fans at a game dancing and cuts to the two who dump their popcorns, do the robot and then turn back-to-back and pose.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Swift returned for her &#8220;Reputation&#8221; era and performed an acoustic piano version of Fallon&#8217;s favorite song off the album, &#8220;New Years Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gjXrm2Q-te4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In his monologue<\/a> to open the Nov. 13, 2017, show, Fallon admitted that his mother, Gloria Fallon, used to hold his and his sister&#8217;s hand and squeeze it three times for &#8220;I love you.&#8221; Swift performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U8QV5fa7xa4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an acoustic version<\/a> of her song, invoking tears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My mind is alive&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 3, 2019, Swift&#8217;s mother, Andrea Swift, sent footage of Swift&#8217;s recovery from laser eye surgery to Fallon. Groggy, the singer almost cries trying to grab a banana to eat. The video cuts to her lying in bed chewing the banana. Her mom warns, &#8220;Don&#8217;t fall asleep eating it, OK?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swift hilariously responds, &#8220;I&#8217;m not asleep, my mind is alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to Nov. 11, 2021, when Swift teased the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Kr4JO9591c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Red (Taylor&#8217;s Version),&#8221;<\/a> explained her Easter egg process (and planted a clue for &#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221; three years ahead of time) and faced off in a round of &#8220;Box of Lies,&#8221; where they attempted to thwart each other about odd items concealed inside a mystery box.<\/p>\n<p>Her sixth appearance was on Oct. 24, 2022. Swift wore a black-and-white three-piece Dorothee Schumacher chevron-patterned suit. She announced that she would be touring soon (what became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/12\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-reporter-personal-journey\/76711565007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eras Tour<\/a>), discussed her music video turned short film for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tollGa3S0o8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;All Too Well (10-minute version)&#8221;<\/a> and previewed her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7QlX3yR2xs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Bejeweled&#8221;<\/a> music video.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-435ca9c3-a02d-4e8b-90d8-7ce3bfa29908\">Don&#8217;t miss any <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\/\" data-autotag=\"ec0ec3d6-8031-4775-9c6d-550a6d24919d\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> news; sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.tennessean.com\/newsletters\/this-swift-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free, weekly newsletter This Swift Beat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-0959cb53-57c4-42eb-a897-e6a563855ded\">Follow Taylor Swift reporter Bryan West on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bryanwesttv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bryanwesttv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanwesttv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X as @BryanWestTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The audience cheered so loudly during Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s introduction of Taylor Swift, it felt like an Eras Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[647,648,185,665,9958,3988,3040,407,171,122901,59985,628,1029,43940,425,666,975,1571,5382,1030,942,50,1232,1539,450,950,4000,4006,3997,12057,55017,31456,4370,3996,62,39567,18912,3571,448,16683,50442,1533,3572,173,4004,1439,17850,646,67,132,68,47051,146286],"class_list":{"0":"post-283844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","12":"tag-country","13":"tag-country-music","14":"tag-department","15":"tag-education","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-fallon","18":"tag-gomez","19":"tag-jimmy","20":"tag-jimmy-fallon","21":"tag-kelce","22":"tag-local","23":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","24":"tag-music","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-nbc","28":"tag-neutral","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-of","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-neutral","34":"tag-pop","35":"tag-pop-music","36":"tag-programs","37":"tag-selena","38":"tag-selena-gomez","39":"tag-shakespeare","40":"tag-show","41":"tag-shows","42":"tag-sports","43":"tag-swift","44":"tag-taylor","45":"tag-taylor-swift","46":"tag-the","47":"tag-the-tonight-show","48":"tag-tonight","49":"tag-travis","50":"tag-travis-kelce","51":"tag-tv","52":"tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","53":"tag-u-s","54":"tag-u-s-department-of-education","55":"tag-u0026","56":"tag-united-states","57":"tag-unitedstates","58":"tag-us","59":"tag-william","60":"tag-william-shakespeare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}