As she always is these days, Taylor Swift was the talk of the town at the 2025 Super Bowl. She has been a regular attendee at the event since last year when she started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Football fans weren’t happy to see her though, as the singer was booed at the Super Bowl by people in the stadium. However, Swift has been focused on other things, as a video of her tipping workers after the Grammys on February 2 has just surfaced.
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The singer may not have taken home any awards that night for her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department, but her outfit turned heads. She wore a red corset mini dress by Vivienne Westwood and red strappy heels. Appropriately she was dressed in Kelce’s team color (red, just without the gold) with a T marked on her leg. She made Guilty As Sin come true!
History of Taylor Swift’s tipping
But back to tipping. This isn’t the first time Swift’s acts of kindness have come to light. In December 2024, People reported that after The Eras Tour finished, Swift paid out $197 million in bonuses to her staff. In December 2023 she was spotted handing out tips to food workers at a Chiefs game.
While Swift may not be everyone’s cup of tea, you can’t deny that she is kind to service workers. Read on to find out the story on her post-Grammys tipping spree.
What did the video of Taylor Swift show?
In the video caught after the Grammys afterparty, Swift is seen in her Gucci Wool Tweed Mini dress. She is leaving the Grammys afterparty and is handing dollar bills to workers at the Grammys. Since the Grammys is the biggest award show in music, each year the carpet and the event is worked by hundreds.
After she hands the money to the staff, she thanks them and leaves.
The video has gone viral, with fans in the comments praising or criticizing Swift for her actions. What did they say?
How did people react to Swift’s tipping spree?
As a global superstar, people will always have negative opinions on what you do, even if it’s something nice. The 35-year-old singer is no exception! Many users on X claimed that the tipping video was set up and she was doing it for “PR”. Anyone who is a Swiftie knows that if she wants to be seen, she will be. Taylor’s publicist, Tree Paine, makes sure of that.
One user joked about the opportunity being set up, saying: “I’m gonna have wife film me next time we go out to dinner so I can get some good and cheap PR lol. And I’m not even a billionaire.”
And yes, Swift became a billionaire in October 2023 due to the success of The Eras Tour.
PR stunt
Another x user claimed the singer was doing a “positive PR run”. Swift has been the subject of PR allegations for years, but more so since she started dating Kelce.
One user accused her of the same thing: “Someone is trying real hard to paint a good image,” they claimed.
Money talks
Other users thought although it was a nice act, it was the bare minimum for a singer with so much money. One X user wrote: “She’s rich so she can do that. Much easier for rich people. The trick is to see if someone can do it who doesn’t have much to begin with like for charity as well.”
Meanwhile, others heckled the amount she gave, even though this wasn’t verified.
One user questioned the amount she tipped: “5 bucks or something? Even 100 bucks wouldn’t be that much, relatively,” they said.
Praise for Taylor Swift
On the other hand, many X users praised the singer for tipping Grammys staff. A user argued that she had planned this, but not for PR. It was because she had the cash ready and waiting! The user wrote: “She literally just walked by and handed them cash, meaning she planned on this no matter who was in her path. From Chappell Roan for Best New Artist to the workers making it happen, she stands and claps for everyone. I will always stan this queen”.
Agreeing that it was a positive act that Swift did, another user observed she “tips them herself” and doesn’t use her “entourage” to do it.
Simultaneously, others in the comments on X praised Swift’s generosity, with many users calling her a “classic act” and a “queen”.
Whether you like her or not, her acts of kindness towards the staff working for her and next to her are so classy. You can’t hate someone for that. The internet can and will, but we won’t.
