New York Post Gets Shredded for Headline About Taylor Swift Not Thanking Travis Kelce During Grammys Speech
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Taylor Swift had a very good night Sunday, winning a record-setting fourth Album of the Year Grammy and announcing a new album, but not in the eyes of the The New York Post, which posted an article attacking her for not thanking boyfriend Travis Kelce during her acceptance speech.
Previously, Swift had been tied with Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, and Paul Simon for most Album of the Year Grammys, each taking home that trophy three times, until she surpassed that number Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Swift’s Album of the Year award for Midnights was her fourteenth Grammy, coming after she scooped up her thirteenth for Pop Vocal Album of the Year. Midnights also won Album of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, Pop Album of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, and absolutely dominated the charts after its release, earning multi-platinum certifications in multiple countries and making her the first artist to ever occupy all top ten spots on the Billboard Hot 100.
In her acceptance speeches for her two Grammys, she thanked several of her collaborators, including long-time producer Jack Antonoff and Lana Del Rey, who contributed vocals and songwriting to “Snow on the Beach,” one of the tracks on the album.
Swift also used her time on stage to announce her next album — not Reputation (Taylor’s Version) as many of her fans had speculated, but a brand-new work called The Tortured Poets Department.
Shortly thereafter, Swift posted the album artwork and a short poem on her social media accounts, quickly racking up millions of likes, comments, and shares.
But the Murdoch-owned Post seems to have gotten the memo that MAGA world has declared a “holy war” against Swift, and devoted two of the eight or so articles about the Grammys on its homepage Monday morning to bashing her, specifically calling her out for not mentioning Kelce, her boyfriend and Chiefs tight end, who will be playing in the Super Bowl this coming Sunday.
“Taylor Swift doesn’t thank Chiefs boyfriend Travis Kelce in Grammys 2024 win speeches” was the headline. On The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, reaction was swift (#sorrynotsorry for the pun) from the singer-songwriter’s defenders, many of whom pointed out that she had written and recorded Midnights before she ever met Kelce.
It should perhaps be noted that a scroll through the Post’s archive of articles about Kelce shows a lack of interest in him not mentioning her name during his on-stage celebrations after his team won the AFC Championship.
Bizarrely, the outlet’s Page Six gossip blog did devote an entire article to lauding Kelce for “supporting” Swift even though he couldn’t attend the Grammys (the Chiefs are already in Las Vegas for practice and preparation for the Super Bowl).
Headlined “How Travis Kelce supported Taylor Swift’s record-making Grammys 2024 outing,” the blog breathlessly reports that Kelce “kept up with all things Grammys via social media, where he couldn’t help but like a post by NPR on Instagram featuring the singer-songwriter posing on the red carpet.”
And the Post followed up Monday morning with a second Swift-bashing article, this time quoting a tweet calling her “Disgusting!” for “ignoring” Celine Dion while on stage, although, as the article acknowledged at the end, Swift and Dion shared a warm hug moments later backstage.
As many Swifties pointed out in response to these two stories, Swift literally wrote a song about this.
They’d say I hustled
Put in the work
They wouldn’t shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve
What I was wearing
If I was rude
Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves?And they would toast to me, oh
Let the players play
I’d be just like Leo
In Saint-TropezI’m so sick of running as fast as I can
Wondering if I’d get there quicker
If I was a man
And I’m so sick of them coming at me again
‘Cause if I was a man
Then I’d be the man
I’d be the man
I’d be the man
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This post has been updated to correct the order of Swift’s most recent Grammy awards.
