It’s a love story, and he or she mentioned sure. After greater than two years of relationship, Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelce — that means we’ll little question get some songs in regards to the pop icon tying the knot.
The “Merciless Summer season” singer shared pics from the engagement in an Aug. 26 Instagram put up, which she captioned, “Your English instructor and your health club instructor are getting married.” She additionally included the observe “So Excessive Faculty” from her album The Tortured Poets Division, which is broadly believed to be about her romance with Kelce — in any case, he is aware of “how you can ball,” and he or she “is aware of Aristotle.”
However earlier than Swift was singing a few love that made her really feel like she was 16 once more — and getting engaged to that boy — the artist was writing lyrics about marriage. Right here’s all the pieces Swift has sung about marriage earlier than she says “I do.”
‘Mary’s Tune (Oh My My My),’ Taylor Swift
Swift wrote a few long-spanning relationship on her 2006 self-titled debut album — regardless of being simply 17 on the time of its launch.
“A number of years had gone and are available round/We had been sitting at our favourite spot on the town/And also you checked out me, obtained down on one knee,” Swift sings.
The lyrics additionally reference a marriage: “Take me again to the time after we walked down the aisle/Our entire city got here and our mamas cried/You mentioned I do and I did too.”
What’s particularly particular about “Mary’s Tune” in relation to Swift and Kelce’s relationship is that it references the numbers “87,” which is Kelce’s jersey quantity within the NFL, and “89,” which is Swift’s start yr. The quantity can be referenced in her album 1989 (Kelce’s favourite!).
“I will be 87; you may be 89/I am going to nonetheless take a look at you want the celebs that shine,” Swift sings within the ultimate verse of the track.
Swift sang “Mary’s Tune” as a part of a mash-up with “So Excessive Faculty” and “Every little thing Has Modified” on the July 6, 2024, efficiency of her Eras tour.
‘Love Story,’ Fearless
Swift romanticizes forbidden love in “Love Story,” the only from 2008’s Fearless, an album she re-recorded in 2021. The track is from the attitude of a younger lady whose household forbids her from seeing the boy she loves — the Romeo to her Juliet. Fortuitously all of it works out ultimately.
“He knelt to the bottom and pulled out a hoop/And mentioned, ‘Marry me, Juliet’/You will by no means should be alone’/‘I really like you and that is all I actually know’/ I talked to your dad, go pick a white costume’/It is a love story, child, simply say sure.”
‘Fifteen,’ Fearless
“Fifteen” is a coming-of-age track through which Swift recaptures the sensation of discovering past love and having her coronary heart damaged. It means that marriage isn’t the one purpose a girl ought to have.
“Again then I swore I used to be gonna marry him sometime/However I spotted some greater desires of mine,” she sings. (She additionally sings “Properly, in your life you may do issues/Better than relationship the boy on the soccer workforce” — however hey, she by no means sang something about marrying a man on one!)
‘Communicate Now,’ Communicate Now
The title observe from this album launched in 2010 is informed from the perspective of a girl who’s crashing her ex’s wedding ceremony — to be able to object. On the finish of the track, the groom and the marriage crasher run off collectively.
“I hear the preacher say, ‘Communicate now or eternally maintain your peace’/There’s the silence, there’s my final probability/I arise with shaky palms, all eyes on me/Horrified seems to be from everybody within the room/However I am solely you,” Swift sings.
‘Silly One,” Communicate Now
This observe, from 2023’s Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model), options Swift singing to a lovelorn model of herself, reminding herself to not be a “silly one” and chase after an individual who’s toying along with her emotions. She sings that the individual she’s in love with will get married — simply to not her.
“’Trigger you bought her in your arm and me within the wings/I am going to get your longing glances, however she’ll get your ring,” Swift sings.
‘Starlight,’ Crimson
Swift doesn’t seek advice from marriage a lot in Crimson (2020), which she known as a “true breakup album.” Her track “Starlight,” nevertheless, was impressed by the wedding of Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Swift was relationship Conor Kennedy, the son of Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., across the time she wrote Crimson.
“We may get married/Have 10 children and train ’em how you can dream,” Swift sings on the observe. (Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy really had 11 children.)
‘Lover,’ Lover
Swift doesn’t write about marriage on her albums 1989 and Popularity. Nevertheless, her 2019 album Lover options quite a few marriage references. The title observe by no means says the phrases “marriage” or “wedding ceremony,” nevertheless it does cheekily seek advice from vows within the bridge.
“Women and gents, will you please stand?/With each guitar string scar on my hand/I take this magnetic drive of a person to be my lover,” Swift sings.
The following lyric additionally refers back to the wedding ceremony custom of getting “one thing borrowed” and “one thing blue” on the ceremony.
“My coronary heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue/All’s properly that ends properly to finish up with you/Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover,” Swift croons.
‘Paper Rings,’ Lover
Swift, who was relationship actor Joe Alwyn on the time of Lover’s launch, didn’t want flashy jewels to wed her boyfriend — a minimum of, that’s what she sang on “Paper Rings.”
“I like shiny issues/however I might marry you with paper rings,” Swift sang.
‘I Suppose He Is aware of,’ Lover
Swift didn’t straight point out marriage on “I Suppose He Is aware of,” however she did tease that she wished dedication from a lover on the track.
“I feel he is aware of/He higher lock it down/Or I will not stick round/ Trigger good ones by no means wait,” she sang.
‘It’s Good to Have a Buddy,’ Lover
Swift’s track remembers a romance that started as a friendship on this observe. The ultimate verse refers back to the couple getting married, with lyrics, “Church bells ring, carry me residence/Rice on the bottom, seems to be like snow.” (Rice is often thrown at weddings.)
‘Champagne Issues,’ Evermore
This observe from Evermore, her album launched in 2020, remembers a state of affairs through which a girl turns down her lover’s proposal, resulting in heartbreak on either side.
“Your mother’s ring in your pocket/My image in your pockets/Your coronary heart was glass, I dropped it/Champagne issues,” Swift sings.
‘Proper The place You Left Me,’ Evermore
Swift sings about an individual leaving her for another person on this bonus observe from Evermore: “Pals breakup/Pals get married.” Later within the track, she muses that her ex-lover in all probability has a “spouse on the market,” however the singer remains to be unable to maneuver on.
‘Lavender Haze,’ Midnights
Although Swift’s album Lover expressed pleasure in regards to the establishment of marriage, her 2022 album Midnights confirmed extra difficult emotions about it. On “Lavender Haze,” Swift sings, “All they preserve asking me/Is that if I’m gonna be your bride/The one form of lady they see/Is a one-night or a spouse.”
‘Midnight Rain,’ Midnights
The theme of pushing aside marriage continued on “Midnight Rain.” Swift sang that her ex “wished a bride” however that she was “making my very own identify/chasing that fame.”
‘You’re Dropping Me,’ Midnights
Swift’s heartbreaking track from Midnights got here properly after the album was launched. Swift dropped the bonus observe “You’re Dropping Me” in Might 2023, greater than six months after Swift launched the complete album — and a couple of month after her public break up from Joe Alwyn, who was her boyfriend of six years.
“And I would not marry me both/A pathological folks pleaser/Who solely wished you to see her,” Swift sings on the gut-wrenching breakup observe.
‘LOML,’ The Tortured Poets Division
Swift’s 2024 album options the primary songs about Kelce — but in addition a complete bunch of unhappy breakup tracks. A kind of is “LOML,” through which Swift sings of an individual who “s***-talked” her “underneath the desk” whereas “speaking rings and speaking cradles.”
‘The Tortured Poets Division,’ The Tortured Poets Division
This observe, believed to be a few fling Swift had with Matty Healy, refers to a boyfriend who slips a hoop onto her finger casually, not realizing how a lot it means to Swift to come back near getting engaged.
“At dinner, you’re taking my ring off my center finger/And put it on the one folks put wedding ceremony rings on/And that is the closest I’ve come to my coronary heart exploding,” Swift sings.
‘So Excessive Faculty,’ The Tortured Poets Division
A a lot happier finish to The Tortured Poets Division’s marriage lyrics? This line from “So Excessive Faculty,” which Swift utilized in her engagement caption, basically confirms that the broadly speculated topic of the track is certainly her now fiancé, Travis Kelce.
“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?/It is only a sport, however actually/I am bettin’ on all three/For us two,” she sings.
