Taylor Swift literally stopped traffic.
The 24-year-old songstress shut down Hollywood Boulevard for thehighly teased performance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday in front of 15,000 fans.
The late-night host introduced Swift to the roaring crowd on the famous California street to sing her hit track, “Shake It Off,” off her upcoming fifth studio album, “1989.”
The singer, who bared her midriff in an all-black ensemble, then gave concertgoers a real treat when she belted out her latest single, “Out Of The Woods,” live for the first time ever.
Ahead of the outdoor show, the blond beauty sat down with Kimmel inside the studio for an interview.
Kimmel decided to tell his audience a story of when Swift came to the set long before she made it big.
“Taylor came to our show with her mom and her guitar, and somehow she got a hold of the guy who books the bands here, Scott Igoe, and she asked if she could play a song for him,” Kimmel revealed.
“And he said, ‘No, you can’t be in the greenroom, we serve alcohol here. You’re too young. You have to go.’ So he threw her out. He threw Taylor Swift out of our building.”
“All’s well that ends well,” Swift chimed in.
“I think of it like this: you probably would have gotten in more trouble with Jimmy had he wandered out and been like, ‘Why is there this random 14-year-old tiny child sitting here with a guitar case? What’s happening here?’ “
“I’m more confident about this album than I’ve been about any of the other ones, which is a really nice feeling,” she admitted about “1989,” named after year she was born.
“But it’s almost like you’re releasing this thing into the world that you spent two years with, and it’s just been mine for two years and now it’s everybody else’s. You know, sending it off to college.”
Swift’s fun night on “Kimmel” was just the start to her promotional appearances on several ABC shows.
The day the album is officially released, Oct. 27, Swift will appear on “Good Morning America” for another sit-down interview.
During the same week, she will return to “GMA” for “an epic concert in the heart of New York City,” the network said in a press release.