Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
- Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged after two years of dating.
- Swift and Kelce announced the news with photos of the proposal on Instagram.
- "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," the caption reads.
Baby, she just said yes: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged after dating for two years.
The couple shared photos on Tuesday of the floral proposal on Instagram. The NFL star is pictured down on one knee, while the pop star's diamond engagement ring is also featured.
"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," the caption reads, punctuated by a dynamite emoji.
The audio attached to the Instagram post is Swift's own song, "So High School," released on her 2024 album "The Tortured Poets Department."
While "Poets" was broadly interpreted as a breakup album, since it followed Swift's highly publicized romance with The 1975 front man Matty Healy, "So High School" was released as a deluxe track on the album's extended "Anthology" edition. Fans immediately theorized the romantic song was inspired by Kelce, whom Swift had begun dating the previous summer.
"Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? / It's just a game, but really / I'm betting on all three for us two," Swift sings in the track, which she cowrote with its producer, Aaron Dessner. "No one's ever had me, not like you."
Like the engagement announcement, the song also juxtaposes Swift's lyricism with Kelce's athleticism: "You know how to ball, I know Aristotle."
Though a dissimilar pair on the surface, Kelce said he was "engulfed" when he watched Swift perform on the Eras Tour. The Kansas City Chiefs star attended the tour's stop in 2023 at Arrowhead Stadium, his team's home turf, where he hoped he could meet Swift backstage.
No such opportunity materialized, so Kelce took to his podcast, "New Heights," to publicly declare his interest in Swift.
Two months later, Swift attended a Chiefs game — the first of many. She later said she was impressed by Kelce's grand gesture.
"I owe a lot to this podcast," Swift said when she recently appeared on "New Heights" to promote her coming album, "The Life of a Showgirl." "This podcast got me a boyfriend, ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app two years ago."
"If this guy isn't crazy, this is sort of like what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager," she added.
Throughout their relationship, both Kelce and Swift have gushed about each other in interviews, with Kelce praising Swift's songwriting and work ethic and Swift praising Kelce's boldness and confidence.
Earlier this month, in a GQ cover story, Kelce opened up about his parents' divorce and how their relationship affected his view of marriage.
"I never saw the romance of it all. A lot of friends I grew up with shared that. The handful of my friends whose parents are still together and still thriving — those are situations I would love to have," Kelce said.
"Not that I think my parents dealt with it the wrong way or anything like that," he continued. "It's more so, if we're gonna start this and do it, why not try and do it to last forever?"
For her part, Swift has been writing songs about marriage and weddings for her entire career, dating back to tracks like 2006's "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" and her 2009 hit single "Love Story."
More recently, Swift has expressed ambivalent feelings about marriage in her music, as in 2022's "Lavender Haze" ("No deal, that 1950s shit they want from me") and 2023's "You're Losing Me" ("I wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser"), both tracks from her 10th album "Midnights."
At the time the album was written, Swift was dating her longtime partner, the British actor Joe Alwyn. The two kept their relationship famously private for six years before news of their split broke in early 2023, just after the Eras Tour began.
Since Swift began dating Kelce, she has embraced a more public-facing relationship style, even involving Kelce in her business ventures. She told Time magazine in 2023 that she's "more trusting now."
"When you say a relationship is public, that means I'm going to see him do what he loves, we're showing up for each other, other people are there and we don't care," Swift said. "The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you're seeing someone. And we're just proud of each other."