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I took the miracle move -on drug. The effects were temporary.

And I love you. It's ruining my life.

I touched you for only a fortnight.

But I touched you.

I definitely think writing music is a form of therapy.

I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has

made me. Sorry.

Every record represents something different.

You look like Clare O 'Bow in this

life.

Remarkable. Tortured Poets album is like this purge.

of just like everything, everything bad that I felt for two years.

It was a really rough time in my life, so the songs reflect that.

That's the end.

Yeah.

That felt like I'm going to die.

Feeling like I'm not a person. I'm just this like big conglomerate that no one

sees as a real human being. And like, especially not men that I date.

And in the whole process, just being like, nothing, nothing works.

Nothing. There's no one for me in the world.

These dressing rooms are freaking massive.

Those are football players' locker rooms.

They're for a 53 -man roster.

That's actually the first time she ever heard of Travis Kelsey, but she didn't

know what we was.

My cousins were, like, taking pictures with one of the lockers.

We had no idea.

No idea.

Do you want to tell the story?

If you want to tell the story, then you should tell the story. I kind of do.

She wants to tell the story. I do, because I think it's a pretty cool

Mom, tell the story, please.

Okay. Okay, if you really want me to.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, I know you went to the Taylor Swift crowd shirt.

was it? Yeah, well, I was disappointed that she doesn't talk before or after

shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings.

So I was a little butthurt. I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made

for her. You made her a bracelet? Yeah.

There are friendship bracelets, and I received a bunch of them being there,

I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it. Not right now. Ooh,

number's in 87 or your phone number?

You know which one.

I'm looking at the headlines and perusing around what's on the Internet,

see that this guy came to your show, and he brought a friendship bracelet and

wants to meet you.

And so, of course, I call up my resident expert on Kansas City Chiefs, my cousin

Robin, and I go, tell me about this guy named Travis Kelsey.

And she goes, oh, my God, he's the nicest guy.

And you know what? He really loves his mom.

I went, ding, ding, ding, ding. And I said, now how in the world am I going to

get her to meet him or whatever?

I've been very non -athlete.

Because I'm not one. And I've always just been like, well, what would we talk

about? And so you call me up like with this tone of like, hey, so I know you're

going to not react well to this. But there's the guy.

He's really cute.

You said something to the effect of like, you got to start doing something

different.

Listen, it was so earnest. I thought it was the sweetest thing in the world that

he came to your show. He brought you something from your world.

To me, that really said a lot.

I thought that was really sweet, and I liked it. You know, on our first date,

literally had to explain football as if it were like violent chess, which helped

me kind of understand it, like high -speed, angry chess.

And then I just sort of became obsessed with him and therefore became obsessed

with learning about football.

Greatest surprise of my life.

Now I, like, know who's on the injured reserve.

I know who was in limited practice today for the 49ers.

I'm like, what does it mean? What's the extent of the injury?

Like, are we dealing with an Achilles thing or is it hamstring?

Well, right now we're just four days away until downtown New Orleans is

in glitter and friendship bracelets, all for the arrival of Taylor Swift.

More and more 50s are arriving by the minute. Elected officials and law

enforcement are using this upcoming weekend kind of as a test run ahead of

hosting the Super Bowl. Soon, the world's biggest pop star will perform

sold -out shows.

Today, the Taylor mania begins.

Night one of the Aris tour here in New Orleans.

These are from Travis.

Aww.

Oh, these are so beautiful.

I love that he doesn't even have to sign them anymore.

Being that we have a handful

of shows left, we decided at the first show of New Orleans that we should put

some of the swings in.

What a swing is, is a dancer who can do another track that's not theirs. So

today wasn't full -out rehearsal.

We're making sure that they know where they're going on stage so they can hop

in.

That's good, guys.

Lovely.

How'd that feel?

Music's fine? Everybody else feel okay staging -wise?

It's wild how these dancers are so talented.

The other dancers can fill in for someone else.

and do their choreography perfectly, hit their blocking perfectly. I don't

understand how they can do their jobs and also have the option of doing

else's.

Crazy. Whoever is not in ready for it or not potentially in ready for it can go

back to the dressing room.

A man wanted to rehearse different contingency plans.

And I jokingly said, oh my goodness, this is going to be one of the last

opportunities I might be able to have to do Ready For It.

And she called me out on it. She was like, do you want to do it? All the

love Ready For It, especially Wiley. And the boys begged to do it.

Unfortunately for me, it is all female.

I just remember watching it being created and...

just living in perpetual envy the whole tour.

That song is really Wiley's style.

He shines when he does that choreography.

I love flipping my hair.

I love being different characters on stage.

I just love performing doing really dope moves to really dope music

beautiful the feeling of the song and the lyrics it's just

it's a monumental number so from the beginning it was my favorite piece

and then why uh this foot goes out right away boom

to go down to go up that's it now i still have to ask taylor and

management if that's okay, because usually we have it be an all -female

He's actually going to try on my costume and see if it fits. And if it fits, I

would love for Wiley to do it because he's so passionate about doing it.

Thank you,

everybody.

You know with this tour we're not very like We're not trying to make any points

about gender, but we just don't really have any kind of restrictions

We got guys in heels and leotards and stuff and We

just don't really think too hard about it right like if you look at look what

you made me do you have?

Women and men dressed up in my former costume.

It's not like

We just don't really overthink it.

And I think that's kind of one of the most fun things about, you know, the way

we've approached this tour. We overthink certain things.

We let some things just kind of be naturally individualistic in terms of

casting and our dancers' expression.

Wiley's such a badass.

He's been doing this for so many years. He's a vet. For him to go in tonight

would be awesome.

Oh, she's on. That's it, right?

Yeah.

Wiley fit into my costume with ease, and if Wiley goes in tonight, it's up to

Taylor. She gets the final say.

Can I go to the game? Yes. Monday night game.

Um, oh.

So Wiley's dream is to do Ready For It.

Amanda's going to take... What do you mean?

He wants to dance Ready For It.

Okay. But Amanda sent me this video.

Does he have a wardrobe?

Yeah, he wants to be the swing tonight.

Yes, there she is.

Does he just fit in Amanda's wardrobe?

Yeah, I think so.

Yes,

100%. That's amazing.

Muscle memory is the first step in like brain atrophy for me.

That's why I love my acoustic set so much. I love being challenged to come up

with different things to do every night.

Preparing for the acoustic set is something that I do because I

don't want to just wing it. I want there to be a sense of quality.

I would never just get up there and be like, guess I'll try something that has

to be purposeful and it has to be well executed.

Like it is always a moment I'm somewhat unprepared for because I'm rehearsing

this a few times in my dressing room and then it's time to bring it to the

stadium stage.

So there's always a level of sort of like nervous anticipation of sort of

make sure you remember all these words, make sure you remember that this song

transitions into this song.

But there's also an element of detail that goes into it.

There were points in this tour when the tour was the only thing that was really

keeping me going in my life.

But there were never points in the tour where I thought, oh, you know what, I

want to quit the tour because the tour is hard. No, my personal life was hard.

I went through two breakups on the first half of this tour.

And that's a lot of breakups, actually.

The show was what gave me purpose and was what I could...

used to get me out of bed.

So the tour has never been the hard thing in my life.

The tour has been the thing that has allowed me to find purpose outside of

shit that was going wrong in my life.

Men will let you down. The heiress tour never will.

You know, it really kind of tells your story. It's so, so cool. It's so

different. And when you first met.

Who are we talking about now?

Travis, your boyfriend.

I'm talking, this is about, these are literally two breakup songs.

It's different as a breakup song.

It's about, it's about. I just hear the pretty parts of it. I mean, I'm glad

that that's, that you read that into it, because I read into it like.

that this person is going through a horrible breakup, and they're like, I

move on. And then they do, and they go to a big city, and they, like, find this

other sense of self.

I guess so.

Anyway, so is this... She can't believe it. She doesn't have to convince me to

be in love with someone who's good for me.

This one's easy.

All right. Do you need me? They need me in there. Okay, that's all I have for

you. Okay. Thank you very much.

My little lucky charm. Bye.

Bye.

What has Travis brought to the tour?

Well, first of all, he brought himself onto the stage on this tour, which was

one of the funnier moments I can ever remember.

How do I put this?

Travis is like, he's a real...

He's a real yes guy, like in terms of life itself.

Do you want to be center, in the middle, in the front of it, or behind it?

You're taking me. Boom. Whichever you want me to do. He's just up for

And when I wrote the skit for I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, where I had this

very dramatic idea where I want to be a soldier on a battlefield, and I'm

fatally wounded, and I die on the stage while singing.

And then we have this very sort of like cabaret, dramatic vaudeville kind of

skit where I have to perk up immediately to perform.

I was like, oh, that's exactly the kind of drama I'm trying to put forth here on

this tour.

But I remember thinking about the skit and always just being like, if there was

ever a point to put Travis in the show, I think this would be the one. But I

obviously am like never going to suggest that because that's like.

I don't want to, you don't want to scare people, you know?

Yeah, like, she has to be head on the left side. I can't remember how it came

up. I think we were just joking around about, like, him doing it, like, him

going up there with Cam.

And it became very clear that he, like, wasn't joking. And I was like, oh, wait,

no, you would do that?

And he was like, yeah, it would be hilarious.

Come on, wake up.

Wake up.

I was like, if you're serious about this, I will send your measurements to

wardrobe and they'll get you a tuck.

Like, are you serious?

And he's like, put me in.

Like, I'm in.

The way that he just comes to life when the lights are the brightest.

People talk about that all the time with him. They're like, the moment's never

too big for Travis. The lights are never too bright for Travis. Like, I think

that's as a player. He can, like, slow down time in the most stressful moments.

And that's exactly what we saw on stage. He got out there and was the

most charming, delightful performer you could ever be on the stage with. Like,

his instincts, he's just so magically entertaining.

really is one of the happiest people I think I've ever met, which I adore.

He just brought a lot of happiness, which is, I think, what he does in a lot

his circles. He brings a lot of happiness to the room.

And that particular night, he brought a lot of happiness to a lot of fans.

It was hilarious.

I can safely say that that was...

That was the loudest it ever got on the air tour.

The

one

thing about death that made me

fall in love with it...

Growing up in Hawaii, I wasn't the typical masculine local boy.

I felt like I didn't fit in anywhere.

I found dance, or dance found me when I was seven and a half.

They planted a seed of passion in me that I didn't know would blossom into

something that would serve me.

till now in my life.

It gave me a huge sense of confidence and a huge sense of power and

belonging and purpose.

In 2007, when I got into the industry, you had to like fit into

a certain stereotype.

Male dancers, they look like this, they dance like this. Female dancers look

like this, they dance like this.

I do love dancing masculine. It's something I love to do. I also love

feminine, and I also love mixing the two together.

I was always told, Wiley, you're great, but you flip your hair too much, or

you're too feminine.

That stuck with me through different jobs, being told different things about

appearance.

This job, no one told me I needed to be buff.

Taylor never made me cut my hair.

I wear different color eyeshadows in different nights. It's been almost 150

shows, and Taylor has once said, Wiley, please stop doing that. Never.

I've never been filtered as a person of who I present myself on stage with her,

and neither has any of my coworkers, and that may

seem so small, but as a dancer who has been told to change, to filter herself,

For almost 20 years, it is one of the most meaningful things to me.

It is so empowering.

It is so loving.

It is so enriching and so much fun.

Why?

You should practice again.

Because you're doing it right.

You know, Wiley, as a dancer and a performer, he can really channel that

of, like, sexy femme side of himself.

Wiley wanting to be in Ready For It was just, like, so refreshing. So I was

like, of course.

I'm fully ready for it.

Crack.

So I'm going to do one of the fake outs where I, like,

I'm going to sing a chorus of her song and the crowd's going to be like, what?

What's going on? What's going on?

And then I'm going to stop and I'm going to do this phone call bit, which I'll

explain to you in real time.

And then

I'm going to be like,

God, that song is stuck in my head. That song has been stuck in my head for like

six months.

you guys know sabrina carpenter you know you know her album it's so good my

friend sabrina is coming tonight she was the opening act on the airs tour for

south america and australia so she was just on tour with us like six months ago

but since then her career has

skyrocketed. She's had the biggest song of the year.

The album has been number one consistently since it came out. She put

arena tour on sale. It sold out in like two seconds.

It's the dream scenario for how you would want your career to go as an

I'm going to go out on stage, start my acoustic set and be like, if you know

words to this one, like sing along.

I just, I have to, I feel like I can't ever get it out of my head until I sing

it. Okay.

So I'm just trying to, trying to just support me on this. Okay.

Now we.

The other day, Erika was like, oh, Sabrina and some friends want to come to

show in New Orleans. And I look up her tour schedule. She's got like a show

yesterday and a show tomorrow in different states. And I was like, is

child abuse for me to even ask her to perform on her one day off? I know she's

like 25, but still.

and they're going to be losing their minds the whole time. They're going to

like, why did she do that?

Something's happening, and they're going to be punching each other and be like,

no, there's no way she's not here.

It's just going to be the craziest moment of the tour.

It's going to be cute.

And you can kind of start singing whenever you want because this is the

chord progression.

And I'm going to start with the chorus.

Yeah. I love you. Okay.

Now he's talking about me every night, oh, is that sweet, I guess so.

Say you can't sleep, baby, I know, that's that me espresso.

Move it up, down, let's ride, oh, switch it up like Nintendo.

Say you can't sleep, baby, I know, that's that me espresso.

I can't. Or do we go back? Oh, yeah. Do the chord progression. I want you on

stage for a million years. Okay. So I'll wait. I'll wait. And then that, isn't

that, isn't that sweet? I guess so.

Okay.

Sweet, I guess so.

I'm going to be like, can I please do the line?

Oh, yeah. You can do the line. I want to do the line so bad. Okay, everybody.

Taylor's going to do the line. I'm going to do the line.

I'm working late.

Cause I'm a singer.

Boy, that's so cute.

Wrapped around my finger.

My pussy humor.

Makes him laugh so often.

My honey bee.

Come get this call in.

Let's press forward to 300. Take out coffees later. I see your profile and

you smile on expecting waiters.

Baby, was it over when she laid down on your couch?

Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse?

Come here, I was living in your dream as you passed out. Baby, was it over when

she laid down on your couch?

And I'll be like, you know what I kind of want to do next? I kind of want to be

like, since you're here.

Please, please, please, don't prove I'm right.

Should I do a high one?

Do you want to?

I can't tell if I want to do.

Please, please, please, don't prove I'm right.

By the way, no one's going to hear anything. I know, because you're like

People are just going to be, like, freaking out.

I felt like a real big idiot because the first time you sent me the first

version, which was so genius, it didn't process the takeout coffee line. Takeout

coffee espresso. Really fits with espresso until I literally was in the

the way here, and I was like, you're so smart.

But, yeah, that was a big blonde moment for me. It took me a day. But what are

the chances it has the same rhythm and the same key?

And so I'm going to get past a phone. Stop.

And have it on speakerphone and put it up to the mic and it'll, like, ring.

And you'll be under the stage with a phone and be like, hello.

I'll say hey some way. Yeah. Some way that I do. And I'll be like, dude, I'm

performing right now. Aren't you playing a show right now? Yeah.

Aren't you in the middle of a show?

I'm, like, watching your live stream. This is so weird.

Just be like.

Aren't you playing a show right now or something in New Orleans?

I'll be like, yeah, about that. I actually just did like a chorus of

and the crowd sang it so loud that I just had to tell you about it. Oh,

so cool. Oh, my gosh.

What are you doing?

Why aren't you here with us? What are you doing right now?

Obviously, I'm on like a roller coaster.

I'm somewhere where everyone is screaming so loud.

Oh.

I'm somewhere where people are screaming really loud, too

Here's the thing Sabrina is there any chance you

could get off?

The roller coaster you're on and like put on some clothes and just like come

down to the stadium real quick

Ballpark

how long would that take you?

Okay,

see you soon. Love you. Bye.

Sabrina is just like a shooting star.

She's so smart. She knows exactly how.

to entertain people in the way that they want in the moment that she's in she's

like battling herself for number one on the charts all summer and when you see

that happen you're just like go fly higher and then it's even cooler when

like someone like this will circle back and like bless us with their magic

Don't bring me to tears when I'm toxic My makeup's on ice

Heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another But I bet you don't

embarrass me, motherfucker Please,

please, please Now he's thinking about

me every night, oh It's so sweet, I just know That you can't sleep, baby, I know

That's a me espresso And is it over

now?

That's a me espresso Espresso with two, three hundred takeout coffees later

That's a me espresso

I have to say that this job is pretty scary.

I mean that because of how big it is.

So many eyes on you.

Venues we go to have almost 100 ,000 people there every night.

I can't believe this is happening. I'm gagging. If I think too much about what

this tour is, and how big of an impact it has, I am riddled with anxiety and

fear.

All

I

want to do is represent

Taylor well.

We are extensions of her right now in this job.

I just want to continue the message of what she's trying to say.

And I want to give that integrity to it.

He was a killer the time that I saw him. Look at how many girls he has left and

left. Haunted, but if he's a boss then I can be a fan. Come, hold it in for him.

Some, some, some boys are trying too hard. He's gonna try it all though.

than my ex, but he acts like such a man. So, I've seen nothing but stuff. I

treat them for a fuck. That stuff ain't that tough.

I cannot see how this is all got.

Touch me and you'll never be alone. I'm smiling, breathing down low. No one has

to know.

In the middle of the night.

You should say.

When I was given the opportunity by Taylor herself,

I was so honored. I was so honored that she would be down, that she even trusted

me to step in so last minute like that.

But I'm even more honored that I get to share the stage with someone who sees

me.

And not only sees me, she celebrates me.

She looks at me on the left.

Are you ready for it? And she has like the biggest smile on her face.

The signing sparkled in her eye.

It's not really that often where a male dancer can do a female swinging part and

even be allowed to flourish as much as he wants in that part.

I want to be that example for anyone, any person, male, female, non -binary.

I want them to feel seen just like how I felt seen by Taylor.

I can't believe that the cities would be completely transformed into really

revolving around and catering to the fans that were coming in for the shows.

It blows my mind.

There's definitely this safety net or bubble that we're sort of encapsulated

and inside of it is just this joyous phenomenon that we get to share.

People are having this special experience where...

They're singing and dancing, listening to songs that some people grew up with,

some people are just starting to love, and it really lets them have this moment

in time that they'll never forget.

This tour just cultivates, I think, just good energy.

It doesn't matter who you are, what age you are.

I feel like there's just a different type of floor.

Her kindness and joy she has brought to the workspace is unheard of, and it rubs

off on all of us.

Gracie texted me. She's like, I knew you were tall, but, like, check this out.

I'm, like, on the...

side of the hotel like a million feet tall used to have this joke and that's

part of why i wrote anti -hero was like i'm like a five foot ten woman followed

around by a 500 foot tall like monster shadow and it's like monster just like

knocks over buildings and and like wreaks all this havoc and

the me being that side tall and i'm on a hotel i'm like yeah that's That's kind

of how it feels sometimes.

We are playing indie three nights, and that'll be the last time

we do the Earth War show in America.

And it is like five days before the presidential election.

The one thing I can provide from people is an escape, like nothing could ever or

should ever bother any of us, and nothing will for three and a half hours.

I'm glad that I will have given just 100 %

girlhood and hope and belief and sweat and effort because

that's the job.

Am I good to say to Trav that I can offer him if he wants to sit with my

Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

As many as they want. Okay, I'll tell him the whole group or whoever he's

to.

What are the, um, songs for today?

Well, I was thinking I could do the prophecy into this love,

and I could do Maroon into Cowboy Like Me.

That sounds amazing.

Relationships on tour has always been something I've really struggled with

because it always felt like the tour was taking away from the relationship.

Somehow I was not able to do both and feel like I was... nurturing both at the

same time, even though I would try and try and try and try.

Somehow there's been this dynamic shift with Travis because it's shocking how

many similarities we have towards our jobs and how we view them and how we

each other.

We both have jobs where we go out in NFL stadiums and we entertain people for

three and a half hours.

His was considerably more violence than mine.

But he's not in heels.

But it's our passion. We've been chasing this since we were little kids.

So I don't think I ever thought I'd meet a guy who had that same trajectory.

Travis has three guys on him.

Well, yeah, because he's special. And I've realized that with this person in

life that just was the right fit for me, you can have the two passions coexist,

and they actually fuel each other.

Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Well,

that was fast.

Oh my God.

Come on.

Ultimately, we love cheering each other on.

It's so funny to be on stage and to see thousands of Kansas City

Chiefs 87 jerseys.

If you would have shown me, like, this is what your crowd's going to look like

in a year before I knew he was going to come into my life, I'd just be like, why

are there so many, like, football jerseys out there?

It's a discernible difference in the way the crowd looks. I swear to God, every,

like, 12th person has his jersey on.

The fans absolutely love Travis, and I think it's because they can tell that he

loves them too, and he just kind of loves all people.

Travis is just very comfortable with, conceptually speaking, a big life,

he has one.

It's not one that he has reluctantly. He's very comfortable with it.

I think ultimately it's the way he treats me. It's very clear.

And I think that's one of the reasons why the fans are so in love with him.

Because you should be, you know?

He's very lovable.

First of all, if you ever would have told me that, like, the most meaningful

relationship I would ever have would start with a man saying that he was

butthurt, that I didn't want to meet him, like, unbelievable.

Unbelievable.