Taylor Swift, please welcome Kevin Bacon to the stage
It's Kevin Bacon's dream to perform with Taylor Swift
Aux News Bacon
Back on the 1989 tour, Taylor Swift would invite all sorts of random guests to join her on stage, so much so that it became a meme. Some of them were fellow musicians, but not always—there was Kobe Bryant, Julia Roberts, Ellen DeGeneres, and of course a whole gaggle of models, but never Kevin Bacon. And though he knows it’s a long shot, he would in fact like to be invited.
Appearing on SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight With Jessica Shaw, he mentioned that his recent performance with Billy Joel wasn’t a bucket list item so much as part of the “NFW List” (as in, “no fucking way”). Swift is also on that list of impossible dreams: “That’s obviously the right answer,” Bacon said.
“I’ve never seen her” in concert, but “I really need to,” he said. “I really do admire her though. I think she’s a great songwriter and I think that what she’s done with just her messaging and the messages she gives to young women, it’s just, it’s awesome.”
Bacon is a known Swiftie. On his very active social media accounts, he’s posted himself and wife Kyra Sedgwick dancing to the Midnights track “Karma” in support of the ACLU’s Drag Defense Fund. “Drag bans are bad karma. Right now, drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community need our help,” he captioned the post.
On another occasion, he posted a duet with daughter Sosie Bacon covering Swift’s tune “Anti-Hero”; they’ve also covered “I Bet You Think About Me,” Swift’s collaboration with Chris Stapleton.
Anyway, it seems like Bacon’s a perfect candidate to revive the old “Please welcome to the stage…” on the next leg of The Eras Tour. Or she could stop by his new podcast, Six Degrees With Kevin Bacon. “Hey, if you’re listening, come on,” he encouraged the Grammy winner.
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At this point Kevin Bacon has actually become a meme of himself.
We welcome the demise of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” and joyously receive the coming of our new Overlord, “Six Degrees of Taylor Swift”.
If it’s filmed and used in a movie, appearing with Kevin Bacon will give her a Bacon Number of one (down from the current two) as well! Everybody wins!
(Reads headline)Oh, really. How often does he go to her concerts?‘”“I’ve never seen her” in concert, but “I really need to,” he said.”’I see. Kevin, You can’t be invited on stage if you don’t go. So, first step buy some tickets to one of her concerts.Second, try getting into contact with Taylor Swift (or more likely her reps) see if you can relay your desire to be invited on stage at one of her concerts.Third, notify Taylor Swift (only after you have arrived.) that you’re there.
I’ve seen the Bacon Brothers in concert, and he would be a good duet partner with Swift. I’m glad he put the idea out there.
She is the only person on the planet who is seven degrees away from Kevin Bacon so this is going to be tough. There are uncontacted peoples who are closer to him.
Maybe he can get footloose and have a little apple juice.
He ain’t fakin’.