Travis Kelce sat down for his first pre-Super Bowl press conference on Monday, just hours after his girlfriend Taylor Swift took home a Grammy for Album of the Year for Midnights. Taylor used her 13th Grammy win, earlier in the night, to announce her brand-new album, The Tortured Poets Department. It comes out in April, and no, the title does not have an apostrophe. Does it need one? Should it be “Poets’ Department”? Discuss. Well, Travis was asked about Taylor and the new album:
Travis Kelce couldn’t be more proud of Taylor Swift! The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34, was all smiles when talking about what is to come in his girlfriend’s career during a Super Bowl media event on Monday. While speaking with reporters at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas about the upcoming big game, Kelce also answered some questions about the pop star, 34.
When asked if he’s had the chance to listen to Swift’s upcoming 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, Kelce confessed that he sees it as a game changer.
“I have heard some of it, yes. And it is unbelievable,” Kelce told reporters. “I can’t wait for her to shake up the world when it finally drops.”
When pressed for more details about her project, Kelce motioned that they are under lock and key. “I can’t give you anything,” he said. “I’ll leave that up to her.”
Kelce told reporters Monday that he intends to work just as hard as Swift — with whom he went public in October 2023. “She’s unbelievable. She’s re-writing the history books herself,” the pro athlete said about her fourth album of the year win following Sunday’s Grammys. “I told her I’ll have to hold up my end of the bargain and come home with hardware, too.”
It’s interesting that Taylor has played some of the new album for him – Taylor just dropped the tracklist and it absolutely looks like the bulk of the album is about Joe Alwyn and maybe Matt Healy too. “But Daddy I Love Him” is probably about Harry Styles too – Styles was definitely the one who got away, and Styles has been seen wearing a t-shirt with that exact phrase. Anyway, it’s cool that Travis is his girl’s biggest hype man. That’s the way it should be, but the bar is in hell so Trav gets credit. Oh, Travis also said that he probably listens to “Anti Hero” every day and that’s his current favorite Swift song. Hm.
Taylor Swift has just revealed the tracklist for her freshly-announced album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” out April 19:
Side A
Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down BadSide B
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love… pic.twitter.com/YBpDpljQmr— Variety (@Variety) February 6, 2024
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I think Joe (Alwyn) is the one that got away, and Harry is the one that she enjoys teasing and dropping Easter eggs or whatever she calls them about in her music, because honestly he does the same in his about her lol. I think they might have a cat and mouse situation going on. As a huge LDR fan I’m curious if this album is her going the Lana route- the title is very Lana coded. But I’m intrigued!
Just a hunch, but based on the names of these songs, and the things Taylor has said recently (about how much she regrets locking herself away for *ahem*six years, and how she appreciates that she can be public now), and her friends’ social media behavior, and even the date of the album release… I think that people will be disavowed of the notion that she consider Joe is the one who got away. I have a feeling that things were not good.
Agreed Callie. Also this album is all about Joe, and her getting out of that. Matt was a rebound that will never be mentioned in a song, people’s need to make it more is odd. But looking at this track list this is about her really looking at this relationship and what it was and sharing her thoughts.
I do think if you listen to all the songs about her and Joe it is pretty obvious that was always shaky and probably not a good fit. But yeah something happened here. But this album is Joe’s album we might have one Travis song but it is Joe’s album I mean my god it is coming out on the day the Revolutionary War started.
Taylor is not being subtle. Also I know some people love to attack her for being messy and petty, but I love it.
I actually think “But Dad I love him” is about Mealy! Just a hunch because of that mental image of him with her dad at the first Era’s Tour concert.
I’m kind of tickled by the image of them being that reverse Barbie campfire scene where she sexily plays music at him and he’s trapped and has to be super into it.
(He’s obviously genuinely into it! I don’t know why I thought of that scene I’m just cracking myself up).
@sas – THIS! Thank you for the imagery and am going to laugh all day. The way it should be in a better, more evolved world.
That scene was HILARIOUS and I can see that being her and Joe’s vibe, where he seems semi-reluctantly supportive but also maybe a bit embarrassed about everything (see also, the lyrics from Tolerate It). But agree that Travis is genuinely into it.
It does not need an apostrope because it is descriptive, not possessive. It’s a shortcut of The Department of the Tortured Poets. Also, I can’t wait to hear the collabs with Post and Florence.
Coming here to say this! I guess it could be either but the meaning would be different if there’s an apostrophe.
I am a big Taylor fan but not that into this album yet? For the past several I’ve preordered the day it’s announced but I don’t feel any compulsion for this one yet. Maybe oversaturation has hit.
Judging by the tracklist, I’ll be into this. It’s been years since we’ve got an honest to goodness breakup album. So Long, London? Hell yeah.
That’s true, I wonder why I’m not all in yet. I think partly hitting Taylor oversaturation and also it seems really at odds with where she is in her personal and professional life at the moment. Like, someone who is in a high profile relationship that people are mostly cheering on, who just broke records at the Grammys and with her tour and concert video, and was times persons of the year feels the opposite of an angsty sad poet. But I guess that’s the magic of music that good artists can transport you to those feelings and make you believe it when you are listening. I am certainly reserving judgement until I hear it!
@Kate, I get that it feels incongruous with the last few months of the TNT relationship!
But my hunch is she started working on these songs much earlier (perhaps even as the relationship with Joe was still official but dissolving), so I hope they bring her closure and peace, and the contrast between where she was when she first began creating the album and where she is now (seemingly happy in love and life) brings her strength.
It does seem like it could create emotional whiplash going back and forth between then/sad-and-now/happy feelings while performing them though! I guess that – and my terrible voice, of course! – are why I could never be a musician LOL
@DK yeah she alluded to this being 2 years in the works so that definitely tracks, it’s more like the reception of this NOW is combining what seems to be a very angsty and sad album with a very jubilant, silly and giggly Taylor. Part of my feeling is also like…if this is all about Joe…I didn’t really care about him when she was dating him for 6 years and I don’t really care about him now. Which I think is as he prefers it! But it also makes it hard for me to anticipate getting excited about music relating to something that has always been (externally facingly) boring.
Agree, apostrophe is not needed. Language and conventions do change to fit with the times. In cases like this, where the apostrophe placement of possessive, descriptive or simply plural could be argued over for hours, modern convention dictates that no apostrophe is needed. A good example of this is that writers guilds around the world have omitted the apostrophe, and if it’s good enough for writers guilds, it’s good enough for the rest of us.
And since we’re talking about poems, we also have “poetic license”.
Right – tortured poets is being used an adjective here, not as a possessive
“But Daddy I Love Him” seems to more likely be a little Mermaid reference from what I have seen. It fits the themes she has hinted at as far as the consequences of foolishly giving up part of yourself in pursuit of love.
Thank you!! Like, the TLM is actually really insidious in how Ariel gave up her voice for a man, and I feel like Taylor could relate that to her own life (or at the very least would love to explore that theme in a fictional context).
Why are people really thinking that she wrote a song about a shirt that Harry Styles wore years ago?!? 😭 FWIW, the tracks linked to their relationship on 1989 were phenomenal and some of my favorites, but that was a totally different time.
That seems to be the theme of the album: giving up who you are for someone else is stupid and wrong. Which is true. Regardless of who the person is and how great they may be or not be.
I came here to say this. Harry wore the shirt as a joke after turning down or not getting the part in The Little Mermaid. Taylor is referencing the deal Ariel makes giving away her voice for a relationship. I think when she met Joe she is the whole Kim/Kanye drama and wanted to be out of the public eye. And when she got over that and wanted to be herself again, she felt like she couldn’t because that was deal she made for that relationship.
Taylor, you’re neither a poet or tortured please explain. 😅😂😫
From what I gather from reddit, it’s a reference to a whatsapp group Joe Alwyn has with Paul Mescal and someone else I can’t remember called The Tortured Men’s Department or something the like.
OMG if this is true then I’m cringing at these men!
Cece, OMG lol
If true, it makes them sooooo try-hard…
Why isn’t she? Songs can start out as poems .. or maybe she writes them and we don’t know. And anyone can feel tortured emotionally regardless of where they are in life. 🙂
The Tortured Men’s Club is what J called it .. and if she’s referencing that I’m sure J and his mates are nervous. LOL
I’m genuinely excited for the Joe Alwyn Breakup Revenge album. Apparently, April 19 of last year was the day all of Taylor’s friends unfollowed Joe on social media.
It is also the anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution.
It’s also the day Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people and bombed the Murrah building and a daycare in Oklahoma City, the largest act of domestic terrorism pre-9/11. In my opinion, picking the day of a national tragedy to release your album isn’t a good look…
@Justjj congrats on winning biggest reach of the day to bash a person.
Are you kidding me or have you really forgotten the firefighter carrying a dead baby on the cover of Time? Because I haven’t and I never will. As someone from Oklahoma, it’s pretty beyond gross to me for her to release her album this day. My daughter is obsessed with TS and I like some of her music and like her with Travis, but it’s really disgusting to release an album on that day and Swifties are unhinged for defending her decision to do so. It’s beyond the pale to me… and Taylor Swift is as pale as they come, so that’s saying a lot. It’s off putting to the point she’s cancelled to me over this. Sorry/not sorry.
It’s a reach because you could find some horrific atrocity for literally ANY date. How far are you willing to go with this rule? Does the tragedy only count if it happened in the artist’s country of origin? In the US, mass shootings alone would rule out virtually every single date on the calendar. And Taylor was all of 5 or 6 years old at the time of the OKC bombing, so no, I don’t think she remembers that issue of Time Magazine.
Yeah I stand by the fact you are working overtime to bash her, because you are. And by your standard nothing could ever come out. Because dig into any date and something godawful happened in this country. We have mass shooting every day. What about the history of lynching? Slave trade? And since you’re from Oklahoma… want to get into black Wall Street?
This OKC bombing was a horrible day, what happened was tragic but to pick any movie release and I promise you’d find some equally horrific historical event.
So yes congratulations on the biggest reach to bash someone ever.
It was the first time in US history something like that had happened on US soil. It was the beginning of a decade of trauma for millennials culminating with Columbine and 9/11. It was a major historical event in the United States and the canary in the coal mine and a harbinger of the far-right wing violence and gun violence to come. It will go down in history as still being the most horrific example of home-grown terrorism to date. I stand by the fact she could pick any other day on the calendar besides a day that traumatized a generation and yes, was a national tragedy in her country of origin,.. (?) I can’t believe the push back. She really could pick any other day. The coverage was the first of its kind, the event was the first example of far right violence on that scale in recent history, it was really, truly horrific. I mean, she could just release it on April 13th. Gen Z may not remember but plenty do remember and yes, it was historic. I’m astounded yall are really out here defending her. It’s gross. Just pick a different day. Not hard. Maybe she should just release her next album on 9/11?
And yes, I’m very familiar with Black Wall Street and I would be equally disgusted if she chose June 1st but OKC was so recent, lots of people remember it… it was just the 25th anniversary. I stand by the fact she could easily pick another day. Y’all are unhinged. Not saying any of this to “bash” her or whatever, ya weirdos. Just release the album on a day that didn’t kill nearly 200 people, injure countless more, and usher in right wing violence and a new era of domestic tragedy and all this scary right wing militia shit. Jeez. That’s all I’m saying.
@justjj no it wasn’t the first time it happened I literally gave you other examples of equally horrific things. It’s the first thing YOU know about but that is more reflection of your knowledge. Heck as a millennial it isn’t even our first traumatic event of that nature. We had a lot. Look you don’t like Taylor and that is totally fine but just admit you went for the most ridiculous and insane reach to try and create drama.
Also it’s pretty gross to use that tragedy to bash her.
How exactly is saying she should choose a different day to release her album “bashing” her? Serious question.
@justjj I think it’s the fact that you’re personally cancelling her (and maybe calling for her to be cancelled? not sure) over the album release date choice. I’m 2 years older than Taylor and do not have any personal memory of that date. Whether she does, I have no idea. I would find 9/11 a strange choice to release an album since that is my first imprint of a mass murder, but if you look at album releases on 9/11/2015 and 9/11/2020 (both Fridays, which is when albums usually are released), there are a ton. If you never want to listen to her music again as a result of the release date that’s obviously up to you, but I guess my point is that it’s not a strange thing for the music industry at all for album release dates to fall on anniversaries of terrible events.
I would bet very few if any high profile pop artists approaching the level of Taylor Swift have or would release their album on 9/11… I’m also a couple of years older than Taylor swift and just because you can claim ignorance about the issue from being young, it doesn’t change the history, or the impact it had. I remember every second of that day as I’m sure New Yorkers remember every second of 9/11. It was a chilling and tangible display of the viscous underbelly of the far right that would lead to Trumpism and arguably Trump as president… It was a national disaster for more reasons than just a bombed daycare. It’s very strange to me that you’re so adamantly defending her and her over the top album title, and saying she couldn’t be more aware of recent history. She could be. And she should be. And yeah, I feel Taylor Swift needs to leave us all alone. I’m sorry. The monoculture and cult of Swift is getting extremely exhausting. But if she’s going to release this tortured white billionaire with a private jet album, she should at least do it on a day that doesn’t coincide with the biggest act of homegrown terrorism in history… in my opinion.
To say that it was the first incident of domestic terrorism on that scale is an to take an extremely white-centric view of history. Lynchings were homegrown terrorism. Numerous race riots and countless massacres of Native Americans, most of them long-forgotten (and many barely acknowledged even in their own time) were homegrown terrorism. You say that you’re aware of the black Wall Street massacre while noting the special significance of the OKC bombing in “recent” history, which suggests that you believe that there’s a certain point after which it’s acceptable to un-retire the date of a given tragedy. At what point does something qualify as “recent”? It seems rather arbitrary.
And speaking as a New Yorker who knew a couple of people who were killed on 9/11, I can honestly say that, unless it was accompanied by some sort of 9/11-themed release party, it wouldn’t bother me at all if Taylor chose to release an album on that day. One thing has nothing to do with the other.
Oh good grief. Y’all are so unhinged, lol. God forbid anyone make an offhand comment on the internet about your Tortured White Billionaire’s album release date…
You’re entitled to your opinion. I personally find it tacky and tone deaf but I’m not a Swifty, so what do I know.
Yey, welcome back to high school! There is a term for people like Taylor: bad break-upper. You don’t have to get revenge from someone because you two broke up.
“Apparently, April 19 of last year was the day all of Taylor’s friends unfollowed Joe on social media.”
I’d expect to read this about teenagers, not women in their mid-30s. Yikes.
It’s also international poets day? Someone on the internet said that, I’m not looking it up 😂
It’s not.
I can’t wait either, this one looks so good and i am truly intrigued by the colabs. I thought for sure by the title it was going to be a Folklore/Evermore vibe which I was into as those are my faves but then she has Post Malone and I am like what is happening.
It must be odd for Travis is this new album really is all about Joe.
Honestly, I’m sure that he appreciates that this is what she does. She processes her emotions through her art and he would have known that before getting into a relationship with her. If anything, it’s probably healthy as Taylor is likely able to put those break-up emotions to bed through music and feels like she is in a good enough space to share those songs with him. She’s said before that she only writes about an ex if she’s sure that it’s absolutely done with.
Looking at the tracklist, I definitely think that there are songs about the Joe break up. Based on titles, can infer that the relationship got pretty…toxic, and she is entitled to get that out. But I actually wouldn’t be surprised if there are more recent ones that touch on her relationship with Travis, especially given how frequently we saw her in the studio in recent months, and those are the ones that he heard (as opposed to depressing songs about an ex, LOL). Then again, Travis seems confident enough in himself and genuinely appreciate of her art that I think he would be okay with it.
I’ve never thought of Harry Styles as the one that got away and Taylor’s never given that indication of him either? Taylor mostly references him as a back and forth situationship from when they were both young. ‘But Daddy, I Love Him’, is a well-known quote from the Little Mermaid.
If *anyone* is the one who got away (from her music), then it’s Jake. But I’m sure she’s long moved on.
I feel like her song The 1 is about Harry Styles. I thought I read that somewhere.
But we were something, don’t you think so?
Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool
And if my wishes came true
It would’ve been you
I don’t think he is the one that got away but I do think he had a more profound impact than some of her other relationships. I know from experience that sometimes those situations hips are the one that haunt you the most.
Pat Mahomes also cited Anti-Hero as his favorite, I think it was a bit of a nod to the fact that the Chiefs are in their “villain/anti-hero” era where no one wants them to win anymore.
Oh that makes sense. Great song for them in their situation actually!
It’s going to be interesting at the SBowl as they’ve built Travis and Taylor and the Chiefs such a high pedestal that people are clamoring to knock it down. That gives them all more motivation and inspiration to work harder.
They really seem to be leaning into it. People were booing Travis last night and he was encouraging them. I think it just makes him play harder.
Yes absolutely. Travis loves the boos more than the cheers. It gives him motivation. He’s spent his whole life being “not as good as his brother” so he’s used to it. The whole team has been bonding over the hate for the whole playoff season.
Kaiser, I like your takes, but Harry Styles as the one who got away?? Please 🤣 Also, Matty Healy was a 3-week rebound who she’s clearly embarrassed by, as her and her team have worked HARD to try to erase/minimize it and totally downplayed the relationship in their exclusives to ET/People. As they should, honestly – I’ve never judged Taylor’s dating life, because we have ALL been there and made mistakes, but Healy is so grotesque and I was genuinely repulsed by their whole thing. I’d be very surprised if he got any identifiable songs.
Agreed! He got a looking-back song in Midnights, and I suspect that will be the end of songs about Harry.
It looks like someone already beat me to it, but “But Daddy I Love Him” is likely a Little Mermaid reference – giving up her voice to try and be with her man sort of thing.
No apostrophe needed.
It made me think of like “The Education Department” or “The Health Department” etc.
It’s not “The Education’s Department” or “The Health’s Department”.
Something I haven’t heard anyone mention yet is that The Tortured Poets Department logo TTPD looks like a Sagittarius + moon sign. Travis is a sag moon.
The TTPD logo also has a distinct Yang shape, which is the white side of Yin’s black. Taylor used black to represent Reputation, and white for TTPD, so this album will definitely be the bookend to Reputation and the albums in between. It’s the break up album and the beginning of TnT.
According to google:
Yang is hot, strong, advancing, active, awake, loud.
Yin is cold, weak, retreating, passive, asleep, quiet.
Make of that what you will…
Seems like Taylor started writing this album two years ago when she and Joe broke up. When they got back together she shelved it and made Midnight’s instead, which was a composite of songs from all eras that were never finished or made it to an album. But now it’s finally time to hear the break up album and I’m guessing it will be the same vibe as ‘You’re Losing Me’’.
I just hope The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is about Matty.
@Olivia, I agree with you about this album. I think she worked on it, shelved it and now is putting it out. I really suspect that she has just a huge vault of stuff that just needs polishing when album time comes around. With technology now, it’s not all about blocking studio time. You can write when the muse hits, send it to your producer and have everything set for that studio time.
I meant the TTPD logo looks like a SCORPIO sign + crescent moon . Travis is a scorpio moon.
See that a lot of people made the comment that But Daddy I Love Him is a Little Mermaid reference, and I don’t think she has a “one that got away” except for romanticizing how if things worked better with Harry they could’ve been THE supercouple (something she’s now got with Travis). Also, she mentioned that this album has been a secret for two years, so it’s likely all about the demise of what she had with the Boring British Boy, which is a shame because I really would like to hear her explain herself for rebounding with Ratty Mealy of all people, not to mention all the sexy material that’s sure to come about himbo king Trav.
If there is sides A through D does this mean it’s a double album?
The title just made me think Dead Poets Society.
Man she is going hard on Joe and Ratty with the song names alone. Be afraid boys, be very afraid.
Love what he says about trying to bring home his own hardware and the respect he shows for her work.
A lot of her albums end up as double albums on vinyl because of number of tracks and song lengths.
So I have to say I have never followed football, just not a sport I have gotten into. But because of Taylor started watching this year and I have been really impressed with Travis and how secure and how much he hypes her up, but also that guy on the 49ers that wife made the Taylor wore and he was freaking out bragging about you hear the truly negative and tragic stories that come out of the NFL but seems like a lot of nice secure men play in it to. Been surprising. But it honestly is so great to see her with someone who will even acknowledge her vs Joe who wouldn’t even answer a favorite song question.
Travis really does hype Taylor. He seems genuinely proud of her. It’s nice. Everyone deserves a partner who is secure enough to do this.
If this new album is full of revenge tracks about Joe, I’ll be curious as to how much more of Taylor’s eternal victimhood her adoring fans are prepared to swallow.
Travis best watch his back if this love story goes south…she’ll put him on blast without blinking an eye, no matter how sweet it all began. Exhibit A: Lover
she said on stage in Tokyo that she wrote this DURING the Eras tour. I don’t know that it will be the scorched earth break up album some fans want it to be. I think it might be more processing of a relationship and finding/re-finding yourself. April 19th is also the start of the American Revolution. I think there may be a lot of themes of independence, reclaiming her voice and public persona. In May she said on stage that she’s never been happier in all of aspects of her life. That doesn’t sound like someone angry and bitter