Kevin Bacon is an eternal optimist. The legendary Footloose star and Bacon Brothers singer who scored his first solo entry (No. 7) on the Billboard songs chart in December with “Here It Is Christmastime” from The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special was recently asked to come up with a wish list of potential musical collaborators and he definitely aimed high.
Appearing on SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw to promote his new Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon podcast, Bacon talked about the joy he felt after joining Billy Joel on stage at Madison Square Garden last month to run through the Piano Man’s “The Entertainer” and “You May Be Right” during Joel’s 93rd gig in his record-setting MSG residency.
Bacon said the Joel team-up wasn’t necessarily a “bucket list” item for him, because he saves those for things that are within the realm of possibility. “To me, a bucket list is a list of things you can actually see yourself doing one day,” he told Shaw. “This is the NFW [No F–king Way] list.”
Shaw was game, so she asked who is next on Bacon’s NFW collab list? “Taylor [Swift],” he said. “That’s obviously the right answer… I really do admire her, though. I think she’s a great songwriter, and I think what she’s done with her messaging and the messages she gives to young women, it’s awesome.”
And though Swift’s Eras Tour made headlines for the impressive list of A-listers who attended the U.S. shows, Bacon didn’t make it out to any of the stadium gigs, even though he really wanted to. “I’ve never seen her. No, I haven’t seen her. I really need to,” he said, while also shooting his shot to have Swift join him on his pod. “Hey, if you’re listening, come on!” he said.
It’s not the first time Bacon showed that he’s a true blue Swiftie. In April the actor and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, danced around their living room to Taylor’s Midnights hit “Karma” wearing T-shirts that read “drag is an art and drag is a right,” while urging fans to support the ACLU’s Drag Defense Fund targeting anti-drag bills being passed and proposed by conservative lawmakers across the country. “Drag bans are bad karma. Right now, drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community need our help,” he wrote at the time.
Listen to Bacon manifesting his Swift collab below.
