Travis and Taylor Go Instagram Official: Love Conquers All

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episode or show notes Caalaroga Shark Media. Welcome to Taylor Swift Today. A

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short roundup of all the headlines around
Taylor's music, tours, movies and life.

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Taylor and Travis have officially hard launched
their relationship on Instagram. This isn't

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just casual PDA anymore, folks.
We're talking grid posts and on stage appearances

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during the Eras tour. It seems
they're saying, yes, we're together and

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we don't care who knows it.
This marks what's commonly known as the hard

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launch period in celebrity relationships. Of
course, when it comes to stars like

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Taylor, fans have been combing through
countless breadcrumbs trying to find proof about their

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lives since the first whispers hit the
tabloids, So it's that much more significant

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when Taylor posts or even brings Travis
on stage with her during the Airas tour.

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And it's not just Taylor and Travis
embracing the hard launch. Pop star

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Sabrina Carpenter recently featured her rumored bo
Barry Keowen in her music video for the

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number one hit Please Please Please.
Plus, Keowan is only following one person

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on Instagram, Carpenter. It seems
we're in the era of the hard launch

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summer, and therapists say celebrities have
various reasons for taking this step. Jeff

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Gunther, a licensed professional counselor and
author of Big Dating Energy, explains every

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aspect of the relationship can become fodder
for public consumption and scrutiny, putting a

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spotlight on the couple and creating pressure
to be seen as a healthy match.

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You're also leaving yourself open to increased
criticism, whether it's a carefully curated moment

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or an impulsive expression of love.
Once that bell is rung, there's no

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turning back. Speaking of the Era's
tour, fans are buzzing about a sweet

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moment in Dublin. Taylor's face lit
up mid performance, apparently spotting Travis in

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the VIP tent. Swifties caught footage
of him being escorted in with his pal

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Ross Travis while Taylor was singing August. Her reaction pure joy. Fans captured

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the moment when Travis was led to
the VIP tent inside a Viva stadium,

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where Julia Roberts and Stevie Nicks were
also seated. Just moments later, Taylor

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seemed to notice something or someone in
the audience. In numerous videos posted on

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social media, Taylor's face visibly changes
as her eyes light up and her mouth

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drops open. Footage from another angle
shows Travis, presumably at the same moment,

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smiling and waving with both hands towards
the stage. One dedicated fan even

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went the extra mile, editing together
a collection of angles and setting the sweet

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footage to Taylor's so High School,
a track from the Tortured Poet's Department,

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the anthology that's rumored to be about
the Kansas City Chief's Star. But that's

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not all the VIP tent drama.
Some fans raised eyebrows at Julia Roberts's interaction

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with Travis. The actress was seen
getting a bit handsy, rubbing his shoulders

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and tickling his chest. While some
found it inappropriate, others defended it as

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motherly affection or just friendly banter.
In the video circulating on TikTok, Roberts

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is seen rubbing Travis's shoulders and tickling
his chest as she chats and laughs with

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him. She then grabs his arms
as she says something that makes him burst

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out laughing. The interaction appears mutual, with Travis warmly rubbing the actress's arms

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and sporting a big smile. However, some social media users thought the encounter

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was inappropriate. One person wrote on
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he's uncomfortable. Another agreed, wtf
is wrong with Jr? Why is she

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scratching his chest and push herself into
him? He is so uncomfortable, trying

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to push her off and she holds
him up. This is uber strange.

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Others found the conversation endearing and defended
Roberts. She's old enough to be his

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mother, so I'm hoping she's treating
him more like a son. Kinda seems

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motherly, one fan wrote. Another
suggested, please, Travis is not uncomfortable.

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Julia is clearly gushing over TNT Taylor
and Travis. She has a great

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sense of humor, so she's probably
joking around with him. Another legend Grace

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the VIP section in Dublin Stevie Nicks
herself. Taylor honored her by performing Clara

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Bow from the tortured Poet's Department,
praising Nix as a mentor and guiding light

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for female artists. During the surprise
acoustic set, Taylor paid tribute to the

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Fleetwood Max singer songwriter. This one
is a pretty easy one because I've never

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played this one live before, Taylor
said in her sunset orange dress. The

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reason I want to play this tonight
is because a friend of mine is here

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who is watching the show, and
who has really been one of the reasons

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why I or any female artist gets
to do what we get to do.

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She's paved the way for us,
and she's mentored so many artists that you

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don't even know she's doing it.
Taylor added how Nix has mentored her and

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many other female artists just to be
a guiding hand. I can't tell you

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how rare that is, Taylor said. She's a hero of mine and also

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someone that I can tell her any
secret, and she would never tell anybody.

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She's really helped me through so much
over the years. On the business

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side, Forbes reports that Taylor is
earning approximately thirteen point six million dollars per

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concert. The Heiress tour has already
become the highest grossing tour ever, crossing

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the one billion revenue mark by the
end, Taylor's total income from the tour

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could exceed four point one billion dollars. Taylor's massive earnings have recently boosted her

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wealth, making her a billionaire in
twenty twenty three, with an estimated net

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worth of one point three billion dollars. According to Capital UK, she pocketed

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over seven hundred million dollars in ticket
sales through the North American leg of her

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tour alone. Moreover, she was
reportedly paid fourteen million pounds to perform in

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Singapore during the South Asian sector of
her world tour, raking in close to

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two point three million pounds per show
for her six exclusive concerts in the island

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nation. The entirety of the Era's
tour comprises one hundred and fifty two concerts

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across five continents. As a result, Taylor is expected to make in excess

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of two billion dollars via ticket sales
alone. If other factors such as merchandise

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are also taken into consideration, her
total income with the Aras tour is speculated

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to exceed four point one billion dollars, as per a Washington Post report.

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More in a moment in collaboration news, Ice Spice is playing coy about a

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potential second duet with Taylor on her
upcoming album Why two k. When asked

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if Taylor would be returning the favor
after their Karma remix, Ice Spice teased,

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I think she did me the favor. I don't know. Let's see,

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let's see, let's see. While
walking the red carpet at the twenty

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twenty four BET Awards, the rapper
played koi when asked about her new album

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possibly featuring a duet with Taylor.
Though she ultimately kept tight lipped about Taylor's

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potential involvement, Ice Spice did reveal
that there's more than one all star collaboration

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on her debut LP. There's a
couple, she confirmed. This interview comes

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almost exactly a year after Karma ascended
to number two on the Billboard Hot one

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hundred thanks to Ice Spice's feature on
The Midnight's Till Dawn edition version of the

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track. The pair both starred in
a music video for the remix and performed

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it a few times together on Taylor's
Heiress tour. Taylor has previously expressed her

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acts admiration for Ice Spice, saying
in a Spotify audio snippet. I am

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blown away by her. In my
opinion, she's the one to watch,

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watching her work ethic and how thoughtfully
she approaches her career. She's like my

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new favorite artist, and I'm so
honored that she's on the song. Even

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Hollywood is taking notes from Taylor's playbook. Director Stephen Soderbergh praised her, saying,

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what she is doing, the way
she is doing it, nobody has

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ever done this before the amount of
control she has taken over. She is

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relentless. Soderberg continued. People laugh
that there's a college class being taught about

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her, and I go, there
should be these stories about doing the whole

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show on a treadmill, just to
make sure she can do it. It's

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a success story, and I am
fascinated by that. Screenwriter David Kupp took

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his daughter to see the show and
said, you cannot believe what it's like

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to be there. I would go
if I could. There aren't any tickets,

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but I watched the film. The
Heiress Tour is also on Soderbergh's mind

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when developing new work. I have
been thinking about a project in which I

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analyzed large scale cooperative endeavors that work
airports? Why do airports work or aa?

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He says, you look at the
Taylor Swift concert at this whole tour

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and it works, so why can't
we figure out Syria or any other conflict.

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Lastly, actor Joseph Quinn shared a
relatable moment about meeting Taylor. He

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recalled, I met Taylor Swift once
and I said, you're Taylor Swift.

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She was very funny. She said
something nice about like the show Stranger Things,

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and I said, oh, thanks, you're Taylor Swift. Quinn joked

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about potentially being featured on one of
her future albums, though he admitted Taylor

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hasn't actually reached out about it.
Quinn explained the encounter during an episode of

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the Happy, Sad Confused podcast.
I meant it as a compliment, he

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said. When host Josh Horowitz pointed
out that it is indeed a compliment,

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Quinn continued, It's definitely a compliment, and I remember thinking like that was

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stupid, but she was very good
humored about it. While Quinn didn't explicitly

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state where or how he met Taylor, they have a mutual connection in Sadie

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Sync. Quinn, who played fan
favorite Eddie Munson in season four of Stranger

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Things Start alongside sinc who plays Max
on the hit show. Sink, in

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turn, starred in Taylor's self directed
short film for All Too Well. And

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