Shake It Off: Taylor Swift Swallows Bug, Keeps Performing

In the event you’ve been hibernating and/or without wifi for the last three months, Swift is in the midst of making a quadrillion (more) dollars via her The Eras Tour. Sunday brought her to everybody’s favorite location for deep dish pizza and unpunishable crime, Chicago, Illinois. Taylor, though, opted to pass on a pie and chowed down on a “delicious” bug instead.

Moments from belting out her song, “Tolerate It,” Swift got a taste of nature, then provided fans inside Chicago’s Soldier Field with an instant food review.

“I just swallowed a bug,” Taylor Swift admitted to her fans.

Taylor Swift Bug Review

Once Taylor had a chance to digest, she shared her on-stage fine dining experience.

“Delicious,” Swift said through a smile. “Oh, God is there any chance none of you saw that?"

Nope. About 20,000 cell phones captured the moment and now it rests firmly on the internet. A Bug's Life gets the sequel we didn't know we wanted or needed.

And said bug couldn't have picked someone better to have snatched 'em up. That's soon to be one rich bug jet setting across the world hobnobbing with celebs via the belly of the musical beast, Ms. Swift.

Despite nibbling on a criter, Swift channeled her inner-Willis Reed and kept right on performing. She recognized she was in for a battle and she wasn't about to back down. “This is gonna happen again tonight,” Swift told the sellout crowd. “There’s so many bugs. There’s 1,000 of them.”

Bug be damned, she's not about to disappoint a Chicago crowd that skipped out on the mortgage in order to snag a few upper deck seats. Heroic stuff from a sometimes Anti-Hero.

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