Swift has attended fashion\u2019s biggest night, the Met Gala, a handful of times over the years. Perhaps no appearance was more memorable than 2016\u2019s event where it was not her dress, but her hair that made an impact. Swift\u2019s bleached platinum bob at the star-studded fund-raiser that year was part of a short-lived era known as \u201cBleachella\u201d to some fans.<\/p>\n
Some fans believe the 2016 event, which both Swift and her ex-boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn attended, is where the couple might have first encountered one another. A moment Swifties think the songstress referenced in \u201cDress,\u201d singing \u201cflashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached,\u201d a line that describes how both stars looked that night.<\/p>\n
For her first time as host on \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d a then 19-year-old Swift arrived having already written the song she would sing as the opening monologue. Seth Meyers<\/a>, the show\u2019s head writer at the time, later recalled bringing Swift into Lorne Michaels\u2019s office, where she performed a \u201cperfect\u201d musical monologue and noted it was better than what the show\u2019s writers had concocted for her to deliver. Swift has served as host and musical guest on the sketch-comedy show over the years. She\u2019s also made repeated cameo appearances, including appearing alongside Kerry Washington and Betty White in a \u201cCalifornians\u201d sketch in 2015 for the show\u2019s 40th anniversary.<\/p>\n In 2023, Swift and Travis Kelce both made cameo appearances on the show. The same day, they were also spotted by tabloids holding hands in New York City, one of the earliest public glimpses of them as a couple.<\/p>\n The iconic arena in Midtown Manhattan will serve as the venue for a private, two-day event around the wedding of Swift and Kelce on July 2 and 3. The first event will reportedly be a smaller gathering of 100 people for a rehearsal dinner at the Infosys Theater, a venue inside the Garden, while as many as 1,000 guests are expected to arrive at the venue the next day for a larger celebration, with possible stage appearances. Swift has some history with the Garden, performing there several times over the years, as well as sitting courtside and cheering the Knicks to a win during a game earlier this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whenever the singer is spotted coming and going from the Greenwich Village recording studio \u2014 which was founded by Jimi Hendrix and has hosted icons like the Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry over the years \u2014 fans are immediately abuzz with whispers about new music. Swift has worked there with Jack Antonoff, her longtime collaborator, on albums including \u201cLover\u201d and \u201cFolklore,\u201d as well as re-releases of her older albums.<\/p>\n Swift has been spotted plenty of times at this Italian hot spot in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, most recently in May, celebrating Lena Dunham\u2019s 40th birthday. If you can\u2019t get a table, try your hand at making their famed \u2014 and delicious \u2014 salad dressing<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a period between 2016 and 2017, Swift rented a four-story townhouse in Manhattan\u2019s West Village. The pad appears to have inspired her 2019 track \u201cCornelia Street\u201d from the album \u201cLover.\u201d It\u2019s a road she\u2019ll never walk again, at least according to her lyrics.<\/p>\n Fans still regularly visit the house, even though it has been nearly a decade since Swift inhabited the home, which has an indoor swimming pool. In 2023, some Swifties made pilgrimages to the location after news broke on her split with the actor Joe Alwyn, whose relationship fans believe to be the inspiration for many of the tracks on \u201cLover.\u201d<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s residence in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan has grown over the years. She initially bought two penthouses from the \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d director Peter Jackson in 2014. A fan who once visited the apartment<\/a> recalled Swift\u2019s father saying that when his daughter first viewed the place, the actor Ian McKellen, who had been living there, was sitting in the kitchen. She has since purchased several adjacent properties.<\/p>\n Fans have seen glimpses of the home on social media over the years and, more recently, watched Swift use a fire extinguisher to put out a small candle blaze in the kitchen in a video posted<\/a> by Swift\u2019s recent musical collaborator Gracie Abrams.<\/p>\n Good luck getting a table here if you are not Swift or Kelce. The upscale American restaurant in SoHo is known for comforting dishes like a French dip sandwich<\/a> and an ice cream sundae, as well as its savory sour-cream-and-onion martini from the cocktail menu. Swift has visited several times \u2014 including outings with Gigi Hadid and Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n In \u201cDelicate,\u201d Swift sings of an unnamed \u201cdive bar on the East Side.\u201d Swifties believe this dark speakeasy on East Seventh Street is that bar. Fans also believe the song was written about Swift\u2019s ex-boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn. The pair broke up in 2023<\/a>; later that year she met Kelce.<\/p>\n This exclusive, members-only club in Lower Manhattan is frequented by plenty of celebrities, including Swift. The club bans photography and videos, as well as members of the media, and patrons are barred from identifying others in the room on social media or to the press.<\/p>\n Still, even with the privacy rules, there have been plenty of posts and photos documenting Swift coming and going from Zero Bond. There was a visit in 2023 with the actor Miles Teller and his wife, Keleigh, as well as a recent celebratory evening with the Haim sisters<\/a> in June after the group watched the Knicks win at Madison Square Garden in matching shirts. There have also been multiple visits with Kelce over the years.<\/p>\n Swift spent part of her 34th birthday celebration at this rustic American restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Wearing a black minidress bedazzled with a moon and stars \u2014 a nice nod to the visual themes of her \u201cMidnights\u201d era \u2014 she partied the night away at Freemans\u2019 upstairs cocktail bar with guests including Jack Antonoff, Blake Lively, Zo\u00eb Kravitz, the Haim sisters, Sabrina Carpenter and her childhood best friend, Abigail Anderson Berard, who was immortalized in Swift\u2019s song \u201cFifteen.\u201d The pop star was also seen dining here with Gracie Abrams earlier that same year.<\/p>\n People line up for hours \u2014 yes, hours \u2014 to secure a spot at this restaurant in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. The brick-oven pizza spot, which is B.Y.O.B. and cash only, is a favorite of pizza connoisseurs \u2014 though not those at The New York Times <\/a>\u2014 and celebrities alike. (Its owner has said he does not accept reservations<\/a>.) Beyonc\u00e9, Jay-Z, the Beckhams and, of course, Swift have all been seen dining here, though unclear if they had to sweat it out in the line like us mere mortals. Swift, who once sent her dad to hand out pizzas, though likely not from Lucali, to fans<\/a> camping out in New York to watch her perform on \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d has shared meals here with famous friends including Blake Lively and Selena Gomez, as well as a date night with Kelce.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn neighborhood where, if Swiftie lyrical interpretations are to be trusted, Swift left a now-infamous scarf at the home of one Maggie Gyllenhaal around 2010. Swift was dating Gyllenhaal\u2019s brother, Jake, at the time and their relationship is believed to have inspired Swift\u2019s \u201cAll Too Well,\u201d a 2012 heart-wrencher of a song beloved by many fans, which Rolling Stone once ranked as her best song<\/a>. \u201cYou keep my old scarf from that very first week,\u201d Swift sings. In 2017, Maggie Gyllenhaal told Andy Cohen on \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d that she was \u201cin the dark about the scarf.\u201d Swift later released an updated, 10-minute version of the track in 2021. A red scarf featured prominently as a thematic motif in \u201cAll Too Well: The Short Film,\u201d which Swift also released that same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swift has attended fashion\u2019s biggest night, the Met Gala, a handful of times over the years. 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