The stars aligned (or more accurately, assembled) at Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island home over the weekend. Swift, who finished the European leg of her Eras tour last week, was seen at her famous Watch Hill mansion—which inspired a song on her album Folklore—for the first time this summer. Alongside her was her boyfriend, NFL player Travis Kelce, who wrapped up the Kansas City Chiefs preseason games last week. It also happened to be the birthday of It Ends With Us star (and longtime friend of Swift) Blake Lively on Sunday, making a perfect storm for one of the “Cruel Summer” singer’s legendary celebrity-packed parties at the beachside home—a rarity in recent years. Lively and her husband, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds, were spotted on the premises with their children in tow. Also seen in paparazzi snaps were Jason and Kylie Kelce; Gigi Hadid with boyfriend Bradley Cooper and his seven-year-old daughter; and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mahomes. The gathering appears to have been fairly lowkey, and none of the attendees have publicly posted photos of it (perhaps owing in part to the backlash that has followed Lively as of late?).
This stands in stark contrast to a decade ago, when Swift’s Fourth of July parties at the residence were iconic star-studded affairs, attended by (and appearing in the Instagram feeds of) Lively, Hadid, Lena Dunham, Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, the Haim sisters, the Jonas brothers, Karlie Kloss, Tom Hiddleston in an “I ♥ T.S.” tank top, Cara Delevingne, and the rest of the pop star’s rotating circle of A-list friends, often pictured waving sparklers or synchronously jumping in red, white, and blue swimwear on the “Fortnight” singer’s 5.23-acre property. The tradition began in 2013, shortly after Swift bought the 12,000-square-foot home for $17.75 million, and ended after summer 2016—until a…