{"id":283872,"date":"2025-10-07T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283872\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:43:12","slug":"taylor-swift-explains-why-shes-not-playing-super-bowl-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283872\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Explains Why She’s Not Playing Super Bowl on ‘Fallon’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNot gonna lie, Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s interview with Jimmy Fallon on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d <\/a>broadcast Monday evening was on the lite side \u2014\u00a0at one point they talked at length about bread. However, the expanded interview on the show\u2019s website contains some actual news. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring one of Fallon\u2019s trademark games that he plays with guests, Swift was asked to say which of five rumors he\u2019d found online were true, and the first was that she\u2019d declined an offer to be the Super Bowl<\/a>\u2018s Halftime performer because she would not own rights to the performance footage. On the broadcast, she makes a face but is not seen saying anything about the issue.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, in the expanded version of the interview posted on the show\u2019s social media and website<\/a>, she speaks at length about why she\u2019s not performing at the big game, as had been rumored before Bad Bunny was officially announced<\/a> as the 2026 halftime entertainer.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter denying with a flat \u201cNo\u201d that footage rights were the reason she declined to perform, Swift explained that her management had only received unspecific questions about it from Roc Nation, which programs the Super Bowl\u2019s entertainment, rather than a formal offer. She added that regardless of whether or not an offer was official, she\u2019d be too concerned about her fianc\u00e9, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, to even think about performing in the middle of the Super Bowl (which does not necessarily mean she presumes that he or the Chiefs will be in the game: Halftime performers are announced too early in the season to know which two teams will be playing).<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of Roc Nation, which is led by Jay-Z, she said, \u201cJay-Z has always been very good to me \u2014 our [business] teams are really close. They sometimes will call and say, \u2018How does she feel about\u2026 [she murmurs something vague meaning \u2018whatever\u2019]. And that\u2019s not, like, an official offer or a conference-room conversation, more \u2018How does she feel about it in general?\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd we\u2019re always able to tell him the truth, which is that I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field,\u201d she explained. \u201cLike, [professional football] is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, [for] the whole season, locked in on what that man is doing on the field. Can you imagine if he\u2019s out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I\u2019m like [she puts on a ditzy voice and face], \u2018I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of \u201cShake It Up,\u201d into \u201cBlank Space,\u201d into \u201cCruel Summer,\u201d that would be great!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe laughed before adding, \u201cThis has nothing to do with Travis \u2014 he would love for me to do it. But I\u2019m just too locked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo \u2014 Swifties will have to wait for a Super Bowl Halftime performance\u2026 until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not gonna lie, Taylor Swift\u2019s interview with Jimmy Fallon on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d broadcast Monday evening was on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,21686,3571,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-283872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-super-bowl","10":"tag-taylor-swift","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115332710709491636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283872","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=283872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}