Fans Predict the End of an HBCU Staple After Taylor Swift Swag Surfs at the Kansas City Chiefs Game

Pop singer Taylor Swift had the web in a frenzy when she was noticed on the first spherical of the AFC playoffs partaking in one in all Black America’s most beloved strikes of celebration — the swag surf.

The blond chart-topper was at Saturday night time’s NFL playoff recreation to assist her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 26-7 wild card victory over the Miami Dolphins.

Throughout the recreation’s closing minutes, Swift, Kelce’s mom, Donna, and Patrick Mahomes’ spouse, Brittany, could possibly be seen swaying back and forth in a vanilla model of the music’s signature dance transfer because the digital camera lower to their non-public suite at bitterly chilly — -7 levels — Arrowhead Stadium for just a few seconds. Your entire part vibed out, however Swift bought into it barely greater than everybody else.

Taylor, the primary and solely act to monopolize the Billboard Scorching 100’s high 10 and place because the Billboard year-end No. 1 artist in three completely different a long time (2009, 2015, and 2023), mouthed the phrases, grabbed her head and gave her meanest hip-hop look, seemingly in accompaniment to the hit music, though it was not audible on the only-on-Peacock broadcast of the sport.

Many individuals on social media took word, calling it “the gentrification of the ‘Swag Surf.’”

One social media person on X gave his evaluation of how swiftly the gentrification of the dance will unfold.

“The Swag Surf is Taylor’s now,” he declared. “By Monday, it’ll be on Good Morning America, by Thursday Gayle [King] can be sitting along with her discussing the best way she innovated crowd celebrations and by subsequent Sunday she’ll be main it with 60,000 followers earlier than the sport. It’s over.”

The Swag Surf is Taylor’s now. By Monday, it’ll be on Good Morning America, by Thursday Gayle can be sitting along with her discussing the best way she innovated crowd celebrations and by subsequent Sunday she’ll be main it with 60,000 followers earlier than the sport. It’s over.

— Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 (@Kazeem) January 14, 2024

One other X person proclaimed, “The least swag a surf has ever surfed.”

A Dolphins fan additionally chimed in, writing, “Seeing Taylor Swift swag surf after beating my workforce was not how I wished to start out my MLK weekend.”

“Swag Surfin’” by Quick Life Yungstaz (F.L.Y.) was launched in 2009 from their debut album “Jamboree.” The observe achieved vital success, reaching No. 62 on the U.S. Billboard Scorching 100 and changing into a staple at HBCU sporting and homecoming occasions. So common is the phenomenon that it has been integrated into exhibits by tons of different artists, together with Beyoncé and Lil Wayne.

The Swag Surf made headlines on the flip of the brand new yr when an Atlanta pastor used the music after preaching his watch night time service.

Video from Bishop William Murphy III’s The Dream Middle Church of Atlanta went viral, displaying the worshippers swag browsing forwards and backwards.

Although the gang was completely dedicated to browsing with all of the swag they may muster, individuals thought it was inappropriate for the church setting.

In response to his critics, the Gen X pastor stated that he tried to be “artistic” in how he engages the tradition, including, “It’s not your grandmother’s church.”