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Travis Kelce may not have joined Taylor Swift on stage for her Dublin shows, but she paid tribute to him during her performance all the same.
Swift — who has been known to incorporate a few of her boyfriend’s dance moves both on stage and in real life — directly imitated the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s iconic bow-and-arrow touchdown move during her first Eras Tour show in Dublin on Friday, June 28. (Swift, who last performed in the Irish capital in 2018, plays her third and final Dubiln Eras show on Sunday, June 30.)
According to fan footage of the moment, Swift, 34, broke out the move — in which she stretched out her arm and shot an imaginary arrow into the air — during “Midnight Rain,” specifically while singing the lines: “And he never thinks of me / Except when I’m on TV.”
“Tayvis is strong in Dublin with Taylor doing Travis’ iconic archer pose during ‘Midnights,'” a Swift fan account captioned the clip via X (formerly known as Twitter), using a bow and arrow emoji.
While Kelce, 34, famously plays for the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium, one of Swift’s many fan-favorite songs is “The Archer,” off of her 2018 album, Lover. Though she performed it live for the majority of her Eras Tour run, she cut it from the setlist after incorporating her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, into her 46-song, 3.5-hour set.
Of course, Swift’s archer pose is not the first time she’s busted out a Kelce-esque move. During the Chiefs’ game against the Cincinnati Bengals on New Year’s Eve 2023, the “Guilty as Sin?” artist — who watched the Chiefs dominate from her private box in the stands — copied her boyfriend’s celebratory dance after he scored a touchdown.
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Last month, Kameron Saunders — one of Swift’s dancers and brother of Kelce’s former Chiefs teammate Khalen Saunders — incorporated Kelce’s motorcycle revving arm movement into the live performance of “So High School,” one of the TTPD tracks heavily theorized to be about Swift and Kelce’s romance.
The NFL star, for his part, has not only been dancing while in the crowd at any number of Swift’s Eras Tour shows — he showed off those dance moves on stage during London Night 3, when he made a surprise appearance during her “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” skit.
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