Taylor Swift sings on a new album about Travis Kelces “Magic Wand”

With “The Life of A Showgirl”, her twelfth studio album, Taylor Swift is now going as far as ever: Travis Kelce, her fiance and NFL superstar, is not just muse-he is the leading role.

“It simply arises from the contagious, wild, dramatic place where I was in my life and this liveliness is reflected on this plate,” said Swift in August in the “New Heights”. “This album is about what happened behind the scenes of my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant, electrifying and full of liveliness.” She added that “The Life of A Showgirl” draws from “everything that happened behind the curtain” in her private life during the Eras Tour.

The storyline of the album begins romantic. In “The Fate of Ophelia” Swift sings that moment when Kelce wanted to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number during the “Eras Tour”. “I heard you call. Through the megafon. You want to see me all by yourself,” she sings – a memory of the beginning of her love. Today, two years later, the bracelet has become a engagement ring.

But Swift would not be Swift if she does not pour the happy ending into dazzling, ambiguous pop songs. “Wood”, one of the most discussed tracks, is bursting with sexual allusions. “His love was the key that opened my thighs,” she sings. And further: “The curse that was on me was broken by your wand” or a passage that says that it had experienced “new dimensions of masculinity” through it. Subtle metaphors? None. Swift sings of seduction, ecstasy, and makes it clear that Kelce is more than just her partner – he is the man who ended her unlucky streak with men.

But not everything on the album is so slippery. In “Honey” she sighs: “But you touch my face. You redefine all this sadness. When you say ‘Honey’.” In the song “Wi $ h Li $ t” she dreams of the future together: “I just want you. A few children. So that the whole neighborhood looks like you.” And in “Actually Romantic” it is simply said: “No man ever loved me as you.” Even “opalite”, a song over sparkling gemstones, is an allusion – on Kelces birthstone, the opal.

Travis Kelce himself now looks like a fanboy of his famous fiance. “I heard every single song and there are twelve bangers,” he enthused in his podcast “New Heights”. Maybe also because it takes place in almost every song itself.

With “The Life of A Showgirl”, Taylor Swift is no longer just as a chronicler of heartache, but as a woman who has arrived. The euphoria, sensuality, self -confidence, all of this has a name: Travis Kelce. He is not just a chapter. He is the great heading of her latest album.