Taylor Swift recently made her debut podcast appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s “New Heights” show, where she announced her 12th studio album.
On the podcast, the NFL star was seemingly all over his girlfriend as he sat next to her, praising the “Bad Blood” hitmaker for using “big” words and being the “best songwriter in the world.”
However, fans have now slammed the Kansas City Chiefs tight end for acting like a “dumb pet,” while others suggested Taylor Swift was too smart for Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce.
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Travis Kelce’s Behavior During The Podcast Has Come Under Scrutiny
Swift joined her boyfriend Kelce on the Wednesday episode of “New Heights” podcast, where she revealed the tracklist for her upcoming album “The Life Of A Showgirl,” which she said would drop on October 3.
The lovebirds looked so smitten with each other as they took turns to share some insights about their relationship. At some points, they unabashedly flaunted some major PDA, with Swift maintaining a bright grin throughout.
During the show, the “Blank Space” singer talked about a variety of subjects like numerology and Shakespeare with her boyfriend and his brother, Jason.
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Kelce, seemingly in awe of the Grammy winner, praised her for using “big words” after she said the term “exoteric,” prompting Swift to clarify that he actually knows what the word means before late calling the football player “handsome.”
However, not all viewers were particularly pleased with how the pair behaved, with many accusing Kelce of acting “dumb.”
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Fans Scrutinize Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce’s Actions During The Podcast
Some Internet users took to social media to accuse Swift of treating Kelce like a child or, as one commenter colorfully put it, a “dumb pet.”
“This is giving me baby talking to my cat. ‘Oh, you’re so stupid! You’re so cute and stupid! Just a tiny brain cell! Such a cute, stupid baby!” a Reddit user wrote.
“It’s giving him being slow, and her treating him like a dumb pet,” someone else declared, while another compared her to a “my know-it-all friend” they had in middle school who “got a thesaurus for Christmas at 12 and suddenly discovered four-syllable words that she would just inject into every sentence possible.”
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“I was trying not to scratch my eyes out when [Jason] asked what numerology was…you can’t like…critically think for two seconds at what that might have to do with?? Really? There is literally no way,” another user penned.
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Netizens Claim The Singer Was Too ‘Smart’ For The Brothers
Amid the criticism, others just thought Swift was too smart for Kelce, and that the NFL star was just being a “simp” for her.
“Travis Kelce is actually King of the Himbos and simps, and I hope he becomes a role model for every dumb white man,” one user wrote.
Another added, “She is just sooooo much smarter, like incredibly smarter than them, and I don’t know how she stands hanging out with them for more than 38 seconds at a time bc she’s had to explain herself about 113 times this whole show.”
A third person wrote on X, “Travis really out here simping over vocabulary.”
Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Talked Shakespeare
During their discussion, Swift opened up on how she drew inspiration from Shakespeare with the opening song of her album. The singer then revealed that she had to give Kelce a rundown on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, because he had never read it before.
She revealed that the first track is titled “The Fate Of Ophelia,” with “Ophelia” being a character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
When she announced the name of the first track, Kelce asked his brother, “Do you know what Fate of Ophelia is?” The singer then looked at her boyfriend while smiling and asked, “You want to talk about Hamlet?”
“I don’t want to get Jason all riled up,” Kelce replied. Swift then told Jason that her boyfriend “might not have read Hamlet” but that she “explained it to him.”
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“Don’t tell my middle school English teacher I didn’t read it. Because I definitely was supposed to,” the Super Bowl winner joked.
After Jason laughed at him, the tight end replied, “It’s alright, I watched ‘The Lion King.'”
“See, he knows what ‘Hamlet’ is,” Swift excitedly chimed in, referencing how the play inspired the Disney animated musical.
Taylor Swift Recalls Awkward Football Question On Their First Date
Elsewhere on the show, Swift shared insight into what their first date looked like, applauding Kelce for not being “judgmental.”
The couple have been together since 2023, and have remained very public supporters of each other, with Swift often attending his games while the athlete stops by at her shows.
However, things were seemingly awkward on their first date as Swift admits she didn’t know anything about football.
“On our first date, I legitimately asked him what it was like when the Chiefs played the Eagles in the Super Bowl, and he looked across the field across the line of scrimmage and saw his brother standing on the other… five feet in front of him on the field,” she recalled.
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Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs previously faced the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022 when his brother Jason was still on the team before he ultimately retired.
“[Travis] didn’t even look at me. Like, I now know what an insane question that was,” Swift said, referencing her question. “He was like, ‘Actually, I’m on the offense and my brother’s on the offense, and I’m only on the field at the same time as the defense.’ I thought everyone was on the field at the same time.”
