Taylor Swift’s Message During Game Sparks Debate

Taylor Swift cheered on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday as they beat the Baltimore Ravens 17-10 in the AFC Championship Game—and now people are debating what she said during the match.

Cameras often focused on the pop star as she celebrated in her luxury box suite following Kelce’s impressive touchdown catch in the first quarter. Following this, Swift was shown on CBS after Isiah Pacheco’s rushing touchdown in the second quarter.

The network also didn’t pass up the opportunity to use the 12-time Grammy winner’s presence to promote its broadcast of the Grammys. As Jim Nantz was reading off the promo for the music awards show, CBS camera showed Swift as it advertised its upcoming coverage.

At one point, Swift could be seen saying something in response, and some people on X, formerly Twitter, think that the “Cruel Summer” singer was telling the cameras to stop showing her. Newsweek emailed Swift’s publicist on Monday for comment.

“Taylor Swift telling CBS to stop showing her, ‘go away please.’ Love her!” X user @DanDanoDeege posted to the social-media platform alongside a clip of the singer. At the time of writing, it had been viewed more than 2 million times.

People took to the comments to agree with this lip-reading theory. “She even said please, bless her,” one person wrote.

“I can’t imagine what she goes through on a daily basis but the fact that she still said ‘please’. I have so much respect for her,” commented another.

A third added: “Can’t even blame her now. The network wants her ratings so they keep showing her. Even though she has nothing to do with the game. They don’t show every celebrity the entire Rams games.”

After various football fans—whom Swift calls “dads, Brads and Chads”—have complained about her presence in NFL broadcasts, this response from her could have made sense. However, others believe Swift was talking about the Grammys, as that was being advertised underneath when the cameras cut to her, and does seem more likely.

“She didn’t say go away she said ‘Oh, the Grammys’ when she realized why they were on her,” one X user posted.

“lol [laugh out loud] she actually says ‘oh, the Grammys’ – that’s what the announcers were doing a promo for,” another person wrote.

“She’s saying ‘oh the Grammy’s’ because she was confused why they were showing her but it was an ad for the Grammys,” a third commented.

A fourth added: “She was trying to figure out why they were showing her on the screen & said ‘oh, the Grammys.'”

The 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony is on February 4—and Swift is breaking records with her nominations.

She is the first person in history to have seven nominations for Song of the Year, thanks to her nomination for “Anti-Hero” from her 2022 album Midnights. Previously, Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie shared the record with six nominations each.

Midnights was also nominated for Album of the Year, meaning Swift has received six nominations in total in that category over the years. This makes her tied with Barbra Streisand. If Swift wins, she will become the first artist to win Album of the Year four times.

Swift’s appearance at the game on Sunday came after pornographic, AI-generated photos of her circulated on social media. Among the AI images of Swift being shared are some of her posing inappropriately while at a Kansas City Chiefs game.

While the images were eventually removed from X, it was reported that Swift is considering legal action.