Travis Kelce has been listening to his fiancee Taylor Swift’s upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album.
And now the football player has delivered his opinion.
On Wednesday during his brother’s New Heights podcast, the 35-year-old athlete spilled the beans.
‘I’m gonna go ahead and just keep poking the bear to all the Swifties,’ he said during the episode.
‘I keep listening to this album. 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 continued, saying, ‘It’s just so much fun to listen to, man. I’ve been dancing throughout the house.’
Travis Kelce has been listening to his fiancee Taylor Swift’s upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album. And now the football player has delivered his opinion
On Wednesday during his brother’s New Heights podcast, the 35-year-old athlete spilled the beans. ‘I’m gonna go ahead and just keep poking the bear to all the Swifties,’ he said during the episode
When Jason asked Travis what his favorite song was he said, ‘I’m not a politician, Jason.’
‘I think Opalite might be my favorite, though… At least now, every time it comes on, I always catch myself,’ he shared.
And he asked Travis what fans would be ‘doing’ when they listed to the album.
‘Um, I mean, it’s music, Jason. You can listen to it at any time of the day. It’s good stuff,’ Travis said.
The record, which was recorded in Sweden ahead of its October 3 release date, has been heard by only a handful of people close to the artist.
Her boyfriend Travis Kelce is among those, as well as Swift’s formidable publicist Tree Paine, an unidentified studio engineer and Max Martin and Shellback who helped to produce
Swift, 35, announced her upcoming album earlier this month on boyfriend Kelce’s podcast New Heights, hours after a countdown appeared on her social channels.
Clearly proud of his girlfriend, the NFL champ threw confetti in the air and shouted: ‘We got TS 12 baby!’
He then watched doe-eyed while clutching the vinyl – which features Swift submerged in a bathtub wearing nothing but a bejewelled corset – as the singer regaled the making of it and the easter eggs she planted months before its release which hinted at the start of a new ‘era’.
Kelce is reportedly only one of five people who have been granted access to the new album which has been kept under wraps in an encrypted folder. Others include Swift’s formidable publicist Tree Paine, an unidentified studio engineer, and Max Martin and Shellback who both helped to produce the music.
‘They used a program which indicates if files have been shared with anyone outside of that core group,’ our insider said. ‘She made her label wait to hear the album as she didn’t want any disturbances.’
Since releasing her first album in 2006, Swift has become a dab hand at managing the logistical complexities of covert operations.
Though in the past she has been a little more lax. For instance, Swift’s friend and fellow singer Selena Gomez said recently that she had heard Swift’s 2008 hit ‘Love Story’ before its release.
In 2019, Gomez said that, when it comes to her own music, Swift was the ‘go-to’ person she trusted to run new projects by without fear of them getting leaked.
‘Everyone was asked to sign iron clad NDAs and weren’t even allowed to discuss their contribution with family and friends,’ an insider told the Daily Mail
While unclear if Swift deployed a code name for The Life of a Showgirl, the singer has previously used them to fly undetected.
Her esoteric albums Folklore and Evermore were referred to as ‘Woodvale’ and ‘November’ respectively before their release in 2020 over fears they would leak.
Revealing the decision behind the code names, Swift told Jimmy Kimmel: ‘When I was making Folklore I was too afraid to even unveil the title of the album to even my closest teammates and management. I didn’t tell anybody the album title until right before it came out.
‘So, I came up with a fake code name that had the same amount of letters as Folklore, chose a random name, chose Woodvale, wanted to see how it would look on the album covers, mocked them up, and then decided I don’t actually want to have a title on the album covers and we forgot to take the fake code name off one of the covers.’
