TOKYO (AP) — Will she make it?
Taylor Swift’s final track will nonetheless be ringing within the ears of hundreds of followers on the Tokyo Dome on Saturday evening when the singer is predicted to hurry to a non-public jet at Haneda airport that can take her on a time-zone-spanning journey to see her boyfriend, NFL star Travis Kelce, play within the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas.
The prospect of this race towards time, crossing 9 time zones and the worldwide date line, has fired imaginations, and hypothesis, for weeks.
At Saturday evening’s live performance, there was loads of proof of the distinctive cultural phenomenon that’s the Swift-Kelce relationship, a nexus {of professional} soccer and the massive star energy of Swift. Along with sequined clothes celebrating Swift within the packed Tokyo Dome, there have been Travis Kelce jerseys and hats and different gear celebrating his group, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Some in Tokyo spent hundreds of {dollars} to attend the pop celebrity’s live shows this week.
To name the worldwide scrutiny of Swift’s travels intense is an understatement.
Followers have tracked her jet. The planet-warming carbon emissions of her globe-trotting travels have been criticized. Officers have weighed in on her means to park her jet in Las Vegas airports.
Even Japanese diplomats have gotten into the act. The Japanese Embassy in Washington posted on social media that she might make the Tremendous Bowl in time, together with of their assertion three Swift track titles – “Converse Now”, “Fearless” and “Crimson.”
“If she departs Tokyo within the night after her live performance, she ought to comfortably arrive in Las Vegas earlier than the Tremendous Bowl begins,” it mentioned.
Workplace employee Hitomi Takahashi, 29, purchased matching Taylor Swift sweatshirts alongside together with her pal and was taking images simply outdoors of the dome on Saturday. “I hope she will return in time. It’s so romantic,” she mentioned.
She is conscious of the criticisms Swift is going through about her personal jets, however mentioned the singer was being singled out unfairly.
“Many different persons are flying on enterprise, and she or he is right here for her work. She faces a bashing as a result of she is known and stands out,” Takahashi mentioned.
Swift has been crisscrossing the globe this week already.
Earlier than coming to Asia, she attended the Grammys in Los Angeles, profitable her 14th Grammy and a record-breaking fourth Album of the Yr award for “Midnights.” The present was watched by practically 17 million folks. She additionally made a shock announcement that her subsequent album is prepared to drop in April.
Then the 4 live shows in Tokyo, and now apparently a rushed journey to attempt to make it to Las Vegas to look at Kelce, the tight finish for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, play within the Tremendous Bowl. She has adopted Kelce for a lot of the Chiefs’ season.
If all of it goes as deliberate she’s then anticipated to fly to Australia later this week to proceed her tour.
“This week is really the very best form of chaos,” Swift posted Wednesday on Instagram.
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Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.
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