Taylor Swift’s “So High School” is stuffed with romantic allusions to her boyfriend, Travis Kelce — and he or she additionally seemingly featured a refined shout-out to his father.
“I feel like laughing in the middle of practice / To that impression you did of your dad again,” Swift, 34, sings within the tune, which was launched on Friday, April 19. “I’m hearing voices like a madman.” (On his “New Heights” podcast, Travis, 34, has impersonated father Ed Kelce a number of occasions.)
Swift didn’t point out Travis or his dad by identify in “So High School,” however refined clues pointed to the tune being impressed by her boyfriend.
“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me (Kill me),” Swift sings on the observe, seemingly name-dropping Travis’ 2016 interview the place he stated he wished to smooch Swift in a “Kiss, Marry, Kill” exercise. “It’s just a game, but really (Really) / I’m bettin’ on all three for us two (All three).”
In one other verse, Swift appeared to say Travis, 34, enjoying skilled soccer.
“You know how to ball / I know Aristotle,” she sings. “Brand new, full throttle / Teach me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto / It’s true, swear, scouts honor. You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her.”
Devoted Swifties freaked out that Travis, who she’s been courting since summer season 2023, was apparently talked about on TTPD — as was his father. (Travis and brother Jason Kelce are the 2 sons of exes Ed and Donna Kelce, who’ve all remained tight by way of the years.)
“Oh I just know Ed Kelce is giggling and kicking his feet,” one social media person wrote by way of X as one other added, “Ed Kelce getting a line in a Taylor song in the year of our savior 2024 I have to laugh.”
A 3rd fan identified, “I also can’t believe Ed Kelce made his way onto a Taylor song like good for him honestly.”
After Travis began courting Swift, Ed went to his native library to take a look at her previous information, as Jason, 36, revealed on a 2023 episode of “New Heights.” (Ed additionally purchased Swift’s discography twice after realizing she had re-released her first six albums following a dispute with Huge Machine Information and Scooter Braun.)
“Ed Kelce [is] skipping to the library to check out The Anthology knowing he got a mention on the album,” an X person quipped.
One other joked, “I’m so excited for Ed Kelce to hear that he’s on The Tortured Poets Department when he finishes burning the CD.”
Ed first met Swift forward of considered one of Travis’ fall 2023 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games in Missouri.
“Taylor walks [into Travis’ house] with a security guy, and I look at her, and I say [to my girlfriend], ‘Oh my God, I know this kid, but I don’t know what her name is. Jeez, you know, like a real idiot,’” Ed recalled throughout a January look on Audacy’s 92.3 The Fan radio present in Cleveland. “And [my girlfriend] says, ‘You don’t know her? This is Taylor Swift, you idiot.’”
Ed, who has gushed about bonding with “the real Taylor,” has since sat with the pop star in a non-public suite at a number of of Travis’ video games, together with February’s Tremendous Bowl LVIII. After the Chiefs received, Ed and Swift celebrated with Travis on the sphere alongside Donna and Jason.
The Tortured Poets Division is offered now.