Bill Maher sees The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. Noam Galai/Getty Images
Bill Maher made the vibrant selection of dissing Taylor Swift on his Club Random podcast today, badgering every little thing from the 34-year-old pop celebrity’s Eras Tour to her love with Kansas City Chiefs limited end Travis Kelce.
While speaking with visitor Haliey Welch– much better referred to as the viral “Hawk Tuah” lady– on his Sunday (July 28) episode, the 68-year-old comic was the very first individual to raiseSwift “I liked her more when she was country,” he claimed. “I love ‘Sparks Fly.’ I love it.”
That was basically where the flattery quit, however. “I’m sure she’s a lovely person, but the whole thing with the football player … it just felt like 35 is a little old to be like, ‘My boyfriend’s a football player, and I wear his jersey to the game with his number on it,’” Maher proceeded, referencing the 14-time Grammy champion’s prominent check outs to Arrowhead Stadium throughout the 2023-24 NFL period.“Right? I mean, come on.”
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The political analyst took place to claim truthfully that Kelce is “gonna dump her.” “With her, it’s like the Gatorade at the Super Bowl,” he included.“You know you’re gonna get dumped — you just don’t know when.”
Welch after that mentioned that Swift’s following cd would certainly be next-level if a Tayvis separation did take place– “It won’t be f–k John Mayer no more, it’ll be f–k Travis”– to which Maher wondered about, “Is she still singing about [Mayer]?”
“Her tour is the Eras Tour… it must’ve had the songs about all the people that she wrote songs about,” the Real Time host proceeded, concurring with Welch that it’s “very tacky” for Swift to still be singing regarding her previous ex lovers. “You can’t control what the muse dictates to you — she’s a songwriter. I can’t fault her for that. But [her breakups] seem like such a recurrent theme.”
That’s when Maher finished the Swift conversation with a rather out-of-date joke: “At some point, you just want to say, maybe you should write a song called, ‘Maybe It’s Me.’”
Billboard has actually connected to Swift’s representative for remark.
Though Maher obviously disapproval that the artist does her older songs on the Eras Tour, countless Swifties would possibly plead to vary. In 2023, the Eras Tour produced roughly $900 million in ticket sales– a number that’s no question dramatically greater when considering the 4 months she’s been exploring in 2024 given that it was computed..
Swift has actually additionally been open regarding just how quips regarding her dating life and songwriting subjects impact her. When the Netflix collection Ginny & &Georgia consisted of the line, “You go through men faster than Taylor Swift” in 2021, for example, she fasted to place it on blast.
“Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” she tweeted at the time. “How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse s–t as FuNnY.”
As for the “Karma” vocalist’s connection with Kelce, the pair seems doing simply great (although a few of Maher’s remarks do resemble problems from NFL followers that really did not such as seeing Swift on their television displays throughout Chiefs games). Now taking place a year of dating, they were most lately identified at the celebrity’s Eras receive Gelsenkirchen, Germany, July 18, cozying up alongside each various other as they left the backstage location.
Watch Maher go over Swift listed below.
