Taylor Swift may have not performed at Coachella — but she and Travis Kelce were the talk of the music festival anyway.
"I love live music, man. I absolutely love live music. I don't get enough of it in my life," Travis gushed to his brother, Jason Kelce, on the Wednesday, April 17, episode of their New Heights podcast about his and Swift's weekend at the star-studded weekend of shows in the California desert. "I just like going to events, going to places where people are, seeing talents. I just like to experience that type of s***."
Travis and Swift were seen front and center in the crowd, dancing together and singing along to the performances. That was a deliberate choice, Travis explained, noting that instead of watching from the side of the stage, they purposely chose to "see it from the fans' perspective." (Swifties immediately took to social media over the weekend to point out the one moment — where Ice Spice was performing "Karma" and Swift was singing along in the crowd — that the Grammy winner was able to actually attend a Taylor Swift concert as a fan.)
While Travis acknowledged that he and Swift "probably could have finessed [watching the performances from backstage] … I think it's that much more of an experience if you're in the pit, in the madness with the fans," he said, while Jason later gave Swift a shout out for wearing New Heights merch — specifically, a green New Heights podcast baseball cap — at the event.
After Saturday's set, Travis and Swift took to the Neon Carnival after-party for more dancing and some highly-publicized PDA — which DJ and Vanderpump Rules star James Kennedy took full credit for.
"While I was playing @taylorswift x @killatrav were having a ball," he wrote via his Instagram Story on Monday, April 15, noting that he was "setting the mood" for the couple.
Kennedy was also "living for" Swift's viral reaction to his remix of "Cruel Summer," during which she abruptly stopped dancing and looked around confused after he abruptly switched up the music.
Of course, Coachella isn't the first time Swift and Travis have danced to remixes of her own music. The pair were famously filmed singing along to The Chainsmokers' remix of "Love Story" after Travis' Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in February.
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