While Taylor Swift fans are calculating how much financial ruin they’re willing to sustain with each progressive vinyl variant drop of her new album The Life of Showgirl, the singer-songwriter’s fiancé Travis Kelce has been playing it on repeat. “I’m gonna go ahead and just keep poking the bear to all the Swifties,” he said on the first New Heights episode since her announcement-filled appearance. “I keep listening to this album.”
Kelce has been “dancing all throughout the house” to the record, set for release on Oct. 3. “I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff,” he said. “It’s just so much fun to listen to, man.”
“At least right now, every time it comes on, I always catch myself [dancing],” he said about his current favorite track, “Opalite.” Some Swifties have already claimed the song as their favorite, but purely on the basis of vibes, since no singles have been shared yet. They still have a few weeks before they’ll hear the record in full, but in the meantime they have some more hints to pour over.
“She walked away, like, flying around,” Travis said about Swift coming onto the podcast to announce the record. “She was having so much fun getting to tell everyone about the album and obviously dropping a few easter eggs and seeing if anyone caught on.” Her fans were hunting for clues in the engagement announcement Swift and Kelce shared Tuesday — even though she said on the podcast that she would never leave hints about her personal life — so it’s safe to say they probably caught on to the easter eggs she dropped and a few more she doesn’t even know about.
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“I know Tay walked away absolutely ecstatic and excited and happy that she came on here and had her first podcast experience with me and you, man,” Kelce told his brother and co-host Jason Kelce. At the beginning of her episode, Swift said, “I owe a lot to this podcast. This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago.”
“This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. It just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life,” Swift added. “And so that effervescence has come through on this record. And like, as you said, bangers.”
