Travis Kelce is celebrating Taylor Swift‘s big win. During the latest episode of the New Heights podcast, the Kansas City Chiefs player jammed out to the original recording of “I Knew You Were Trouble,” the Red single that the musician now owns after purchasing her catalog from Shamrock Capital. “Just bought all her music back,” Kelce said. “It’s finally hers.”
The impromptu dance party started when Kelce and his brother Jason welcomed Shaquille O’Neal to the podcast. “Hold on, I gotta show you guys something,” the NBA legend told the brothers before playing the OG “I Knew You Were Trouble” recording from his phone and dramatically lip-syncing the lyrics. “That’s my favorite song in the world.” Kelce took the moment to highlight Swift, boasting: “Shout out to Tay Tay. Just got that song back, too.”
Last week, Swift penned a letter sharing the news herself. “All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me,” she wrote. “And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work.”
The singer-songwriter’s first six studio albums were sold to her by Shamrock Capital, which purchased them from Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. The sale brought to an end the years-long battle Swift fought after her label, Big Machine, sold off her catalog to Braun without her permission. The dispute pushed the musician to begin re-recording those albums — from her self-titled debut through Reputation — as Taylor’s Version recordings in order to devalue the originals.
“All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy,” Swift said. “This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful.”
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Kelce and Swift have been cheering each other on since first going public with their relationship in 2023. Swift has attended plenty of Kansas City Chiefs games, while Kelce made a number of appearances at the Eras Tour — including on stage as a dancer during one of her London concerts.
“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 told Time in 2023. “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.”
