Taylor Swift gave a surprise acoustic performance of her 2014 mega-hit Shake It Off at Tight End University.
The 35-year-old pop megastar might have wrapped her mammoth 149-date Eras Tour in December, but she hasn’t lost the urge to perform.
On Monday (23.06.26), Taylor gave an impromptu performance and made her red carpet debut with her Kansas City Chiefs tight-end boyfriend Travis Kelce at the three-day training event he co-founded.
Each year, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee gets renamed Tight End University as tight-ends network and tighten up their skills.
However, this year, the footballers were in for a treat, as the Grammy winner popped up and performance for them.
DJ Mike Fresh, who was behind the decks that night, shared to Instagram: “There are Monday fun days, and then there are Monday fun days when Taylor Swift is in the building partying to your set.”
The couple have been enjoying some lavish dates of late and recently celebrated Taylor buying back the rights to her original master recordings in a landmark $360 million deal.
Taylor shared the news via a message posted to her official website.
She wrote: “I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow.
“A flashback sequence of all the time I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell this news.
“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now. I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found that this is really happening. I really get to say those words. All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs… to me.”
She now owns her music videos, concert films, unreleased tracks, album art and photography.
Taylor also referred to the collection as encompassing “the memories, the magic, the madness, every single era, (her) entire life’s work”.
In 2019, music executive Scooter Braun acquired the masters of Taylor’s early discography — Taylor Swift, Fearless’, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation — for $300 million, a move the artist publicly criticised, claiming she was not given the opportunity to purchase them herself.
The rights were later sold to the investment firm Shamrock Capital.
Taylor began re-recording the albums under her own ownership after signing a deal with Universal Music Group and Republic Records in 2018 before her new ownership deal.