Taylor Swift has fiancé Travis Kelce on the mind, paying tribute to him a number of occasions in her “The Destiny of Ophelia” music video.
Whereas the video’s most evident nod to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ tight finish, 36, comes as a grinning Swift catches and passes a soccer whereas sliding down a hallway singing the lyrics, “Pledge allegiance to your palms, your staff, your vibes,” three different loving references carry the grand complete to 4.
Launched by Swift, 35, on Sunday, October 5, the video encompasses a dressing room door with the quantity “87” hanging from it — a nod to Kelce’s Chiefs jersey quantity.
A 3rd tribute to Kelce, who proposed to Swift in a floral-filled backyard in August, arrives when Swift is contained in the video’s dressing room, surrounded by fellow dancers wearing glowing pink costumes. Within the background of the group’s gathering, a black and white photograph of Kelce seems to be caught to the nook of an arrogance mirror.
Followers took to social media within the aftermath of the video’s launch — the primary off Swift’s twelfth studio album The Lifetime of a Showgirl — to invest over the black and white photograph’s origin. Per a report by Web page Six, printed on Sunday, some guessed it was a body from Kelce’s 2016 Catching Kelce actuality collection, others believed it stemmed from his October 2024 visitor position in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, and additional folks thought it was from Kelce’s 2016 interview for AfterBuzz TV when he revealed wished to to “kiss” Swift. (The previous interview additionally revealed that Kelce wished to “kill” Ariana Grande and “marry” Katy Perry.)
A 3rd lyrical nod to Kelce is made when Swift sings, “I heard you calling / On the megaphone / You wanna see me on their lonesome,” which is probably going referencing Kelce unsuccessfully making an attempt to present Swift a friendship bracelet together with his cellphone quantity on it throughout her Eras Tour earlier than the pair had related. (Kelce detailed his failed try throughout a July 2023 episode of his podcast, “New Heights.”)
Swift’s new music video is crammed with loads of extra glamor, opening with the singer coming to life out of an image earlier than she ventures by means of numerous time intervals. Portraying a number of characters, Swift donned a number of outfits and hairstyles, together with wigs that spanned lengthy and black, to lengthy and curly pink.
The music video concludes with Swift mendacity in a bath of water, extending the paintings featured on the The Lifetime of a Showgirl’s album cowl.
Swift formally introduced her new album throughout a visitor look on “New Heights.” As she sat subsequent to her then-boyfriend throughout her interview, Swift advised the podcast’s cohost, Travis’ older brother Jason Kelce, that she wished to “present” him one thing.
“That is my model new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” she mentioned, opening up a mint inexperienced case together with her initials on the entrance to drag out her file.
She then unveiled the album’s full 12-song monitor itemizing: “The Destiny of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Father Determine,” “Eldest Daughter,” “Smash the Friendship,” “Really Romantic,” “Want Record,” “Wooden,” “Cancelled!,” “Honey” and “The Lifetime of a Showgirl” that includes Sabrina Carpenter.
