The New Heights episode that featured Taylor Swift suddenly went dark toward the end of the two-hour-long livestream that dropped Aug. 13
The podcast, co-hosted by Travis and Jason Kelce, explained the problem on X four hours after the episode cut out
Swift discussed everything from her love life with the Kansas City Chiefs star to her music, including details on her recently-announced forthcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl
Taylor Swift has the power to break records… and the internet.
When the 14-time Grammy winner, 35, made her long-awaited appearance on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, the YouTube livestream blacked out towards the end of the two-hour plus episode.
The episode suddenly stopped and went black nearly an hour and 45 minutes after it premiered at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 13. Specifically, the livestream — which attracted over a million viewers who watched in real time — cut out around 8:45 p.m. ET.
At 8:48 p.m. ET, the New Heights X account — which had been live tweeting throughout the episode — explained what happened.
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“We hit a glitch but will be back shortly!!!” the podcast account shared on the social media platform.
The account added, “Shoutout all the 92%ers and swifties for actually helping us break the internet.”
Approximately four hours later, New Heights shared an update on X at 12:37 a.m. ET.
“WE ARE BACK!!!!” the podcast’s official X account wrote. “Use this link to pick up right where we left off,” the page added, dropping the corresponding URL to direct viewers to the video.
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Quote tweeting the post, New Heights thanked YouTube for getting the podcast episode back up and running after the blackout.
“Shoutout to the amazing team at @YouTube for helping get this fixed!!!” the podcast account wrote on X.
Viewers poked fun at the New Heights X account’s choice of words, noting that the fix — which took approximately four hours from the time the episode cut out to the time the new podcast link was shared — wasn’t as quick as they made it out to be.
“‘Shortly’,” wrote one X user.
To which the New Heights X account replied, “😅 😅 😅 (But for real sorry about that we worked as fast as we could!).”
Earlier in the night, WNBA star Caitlin Clark — a self-professed “Swiftie” and longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan — predicted a glitch of sorts would occur.
“Are we sure YouTube isn’t going to crash tonight?” joked the Indiana Fever guard on X at 2:22 p.m. ET.
After the screen blacked out, Clark quote tweeted herself on the social media platform, writing, “Swifties so powerful we broke the Internet.”
During her appearance on New Heights, Swift covered a variety of wide-ranging topics: she emotionally opened up about regaining the rights to her music, gave a rare glimpse inside her romance with Travis, 35, and shed light on her forthcoming alum, The Life of a Showgirl (due Oct. 3).
The singer-songwriter’s debut on New Heights didn’t just break the internet, but it also set a new viewership record for the popular podcast hosted by the NFL brothers.
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Over 9.26 million people had watched the episode featuring Swift as of early Thursday, Aug. 14, according to Forbes, and the number continues to grow by the minute.
Her appearance smashed the old record held by Jason’s wife Kylie Kelce, whose spot on the podcast brought in 8.9 million viewers.
