relationship to continue and stand strong

Several tracks on her 11th studio album, which came out today, appear to include clear references to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, whom she started dating last fall.

 

 

Breaking News: So many people want my relationship with Travis Kelce to be trashed and broken. If you are a fan of mine and you want my relationship to continue and stand strong, let me hear you say a big YES!”

 

 

 

The most obvious example is on track 15, “The Alchemy,” in which she sings about experiencing a romantic connection that “happens once every few lifetimes.” Football and sports references are a motif throughout the lyrics: “touch down,” “cut ’em from the team,” “warm the benches,” “winning streak.” In the bridge, she sings of a celebratory moment that could easily describeafter his team’s Super Bowl victory this February: “Shirts off, and your friends lift you up, over their heads / Beer stickin’ to the floor, cheers chanted ’cause they said / There was no chance trying to be the greatest in the league / Where’s the trophy? He just comes, running over to me.”“So High School,” a bonus track about going all-in with a new lover who makes you feel as giddy and exhilarated as a teenager, appears to be another ode to the early stages of her relationship with Kelce.

Besides the title’s tongue-in-cheek allusion to the public’s crowning of Swift and Kelce as America’s new power couple—like a high