Taylor Swift is likely one of the most well-known individuals on the planet, so it's no shock that generally she requires an additional little bit of secrecy when she makes an entrance.
Whereas there have lengthy been rumors about her hiding in a suitcase to extra simply go away her New York Metropolis house, the Grammy winner's most well-known stealth technique of transportation was the cleansing cart she used to enter the sector for her Eras Tour live shows. At first, followers may solely speculate that she was inside a mysteriously giant wagon that was rolled behind the stage earlier than every date, however Swift ultimately confirmed the rumors have been true.
“I kinda thought I would solely do it for evening one, after which I simply received hooked up to it. I used to be like, ‘I discover this enjoyable,'” the “Clean Area” singer defined throughout an August 2025 interview on fiancé Travis Kelce's “New Heights” podcast. “There's a bizarre little aspect of me that likes sneaking round.”
Maintain scrolling for a glance again in any respect of Swift's sneaky entrances:
The Suitcase
Within the 1989 period, Swift was typically photographed getting into and exiting her house in NYC's Tribeca neighborhood, however by the point Popularity dropped in 2017, she was famously fascinated with a bit extra privateness. In July of that 12 months, a paparazzi photograph confirmed two males carrying an infinite suitcase out of the house and putting it in a automobile. The snap circulated with the caption, “Taylor Swift being transported in an enormous suitcase,” however some web sleuths dismissed the concept as too loopy to be true.
One 12 months later, nevertheless, Zayn Malik — who was then relationship Swift's good friend Gigi Hadid — claimed the “Fortnight” singer actually was inside the baggage. “She was touring round in a suitcase,” he informed British Vogue in November 2018. (The outlet famous his eyes have been “agog” as he marveled at Swift's capacity to keep away from consideration.)
The Cleansing Cart
Swift initially determined to enter her first Eras Tour date through the now-infamous “cleansing cart” in order to not spoil the shock of the present for attendees.
“I didn't need them to see my first outfit and my first look, which might have given away what the primary period was earlier than — once I'm strolling up the ramp behind the stage, there's all these followers seated behind the stage at sure angles the place they might have been capable of movie it,” she defined on “New Heights” in August 2025. “I didn't need that to be the very first thing individuals noticed from The Eras Tour.”
John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Pictures Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour has made headlines not just for its record-breaking world success but additionally for its plethora of viral moments. Swift kicked off her most bold live performance tour but with back-to-back reveals in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023. Her second evening of performances gave followers one of many first […]
She continued, “I needed it to be the massive Lover motif, and so they're shocked and delighted by the truth that Lover is the primary period we're doing. It's the primary time they're seeing that Versace bodysuit all lit up. … As soon as the lights hit that factor — oh, I really like that outfit a lot — and so it was actually about preserving the sanctity of a shock second.”
Loads of Swifties finally noticed bits of The Eras Tour on-line for themselves earlier than attending in individual, but when they managed to remain off TikTok, the “cleansing cart” helped guarantee they wouldn't know what Swift's first look of the evening could be.
In her December 2024 Eras Tour ebook, Swift additionally shared a glimpse contained in the cart, which had sufficient house inside for her to sit down upright. It was embellished with cat posters in addition to a postcard picture of Cardiff, Wales, which led followers to wonder if she swapped out the framed image for every new cease on the tour.
Erika Goldring/TAS24/Getty Pictures Taylor Swift has formally wrapped her “beloved” Eras Tour, and he or she's nonetheless perplexing followers with the cleansing cart. Swift, 34, infamously arrived at each stadium's diamond-shaped stage through a nondescript cleansing cart. In a photograph round-up from her final three Eras live shows in Vancouver, Swift supplied a glimpse at her mode of […]
The Transferring Wall
After Swift started relationship Kelce in 2023, she grew to become a daily fixture at his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games, however followers have been left stumped when she didn't make her ordinary tunnel arrival at Arrowhead Stadium for the group's first dwelling recreation in September 2025.
Whereas she was by no means proven arriving or sitting in her suite, a supply confirmed to Us Weekly that she was there — and followers suppose they understand how she received in so quietly. In movies that circulated through social media, workers have been seen putting a transferring wall in a hallway as somebody, seemingly Swift, walked behind it. She wasn't seen within the clips, however her bodyguard was seen close by. Different movies confirmed her mother, Andrea, and brother, Austin, allegedly utilizing the identical technique to enter below the radar.
