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Travis Kelce Confirm Taylor Swift Song Is About Him.With lyrics like: “I feel like laughin’ in the middle of practice / To that impression you did of your dad again,” it didn’t take long for listeners to put the pieces together. Kelce is known for the funny impressions he does of his father, Ed, on he and his brother’s podcast “New Heights”.
Love it or loathe it, it’s all anyone can talk about right now, and Travis Kelce seemingly responded to Taylor Swift’s “So High School” lyrics from her latest album The Tortured Poets Department. The pair have been dating since at least September 2023 and many fans have speculated that at least one song is about their romance.
In “So High School”, Taylor sings “I feel like laughin’ in the middle of practice / Do that impression you did of your dad again”. Shortly after the album dropped, Travis’ New Heights podcast that he hosts with his brother Jason where the two siblings are doing impressions of their dad, Ed Kelce, with the caption, “Those Papa Kelce impressions are just too good.” That was enough for Swifties who took that as confirmation the song is about Travis.
There are more obvious references to their romance though. In “The Alchemy”, Taylor sings “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,” in a pretty clear nod to the Kansas City Chiefs win at the 2023 Super Bowl.
The Tortured Poets Department is Swift’s 11th studio album, which she announced during her speech for the Best Pop Vocal Album award at the 66th annual Grammy Awards. “This is my 13th Grammy, which is my lucky number. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you that. I want to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this way, but I know that the way that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans,” Swift said.
“So I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my brand-new album comes out April 19. It’s called The Tortured Poets Department.”
The album, which was released on April 19, 2024, features 31 songs and two sides: the standard edition with 16 songs and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology with 15 songs. “The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post on release day.
“This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.”