R1 Taylor Swift Just Confirmed a Major Late-Night Appearance Ahead of Her Eras Tour Docuseries Premiere
NEED TO KNOW
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert revealed that Taylor Swift will appear as a guest this week in a Dec. 8 announcement video on Instagram
- In the video, Colbert danced to Swift’s “Opalite”
- Swift last appearance on the show was in 2021
Name a more iconic duo than Stephen Colbert and Taylor Swift.
On Monday, Dec. 8, the official Instagram account for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert revealed that Swift will be interviewed on the talk series on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
The video, set to Swift’s hit song “Opalite,” featured a compilation including clips of Colbert, 61, energetically dancing and wearing a sparkling red, white and blue outfit.
The announcement video concluded with a throwback clip of Swift, 35, picking up the phone and saying, “Hey Stephen,” with a big smile on her face. The video is from her appearance on the talk show in 2021, when she proved that her 2008 song “Hey Stephen” wasn’t about the talk show host.
“‘Hey Stephen”s got to be about me,” he said at the time.
“No, Stephen. I first recorded that song in 2008. I think I was like 18,” Swift said at the time, after he asked if the song was about him. Then, Swift played into the joke and whipped out a mood board featuring several photos with Colbert’s face on them.
“Don’t flatter yourself. ‘Hey Stephen’ is not about you — anymore than my album 1989 is about the year you spent waiting tables on the lunch shift at Scoozi, an Italian restaurant,” she said sarcastically.
“If you really want to know who it’s about… I’ve never revealed this to anyone else but ‘Hey Stephen’ is about Stephen King,” she added.
At the end of the video, Swift gets a call from the author — also known as the King of Horror — and picks up the phone to say, “Hey Stephen.”
The singer-songwriter’s appearance on the show will come two days before the premiere of her new docuseries The End of an Era.
The End of an Era will detail “the development, impact, and inner-workings that created the phenomenon that was The Eras Tour,” per a press release. The project will also offer “an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world.”
The first two episodes will air on Dec. 12, and two new episodes will release each week with six in total.
The same day, she’ll also premiere Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show — a live recording of her final Eras Tour performance on Dec. 8, 2024 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada. The film, featuring feature the full The Tortured Poets Department set, will air on Disney+.
Earlier this week, Swift attended the Chiefs-Texans game with best friend Selena Gomez to cheer on fiancé Travis Kelce.
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