So the question on everyone’s mind: did Travis ask Papa Swift for permission to marry Taylor?
OF COURSE HE DID!!!!
It just goes to show what a gentleman he is.
What else did we learn from this interview? He was encouraged by both Taylor and his dad to get it done ASAP. While Travis wanted to wait until their two year anniversary and do something huge and romantic, he ended up proposing after the New Heights podcast.
Ed Kelce went on to explain that some of Travis’s crew actually set up all the flowers in his backyard while they were filming their episode of New Heights, where Taylor broke the Guiness world record for live viewers on a podcast!!
Ed went on to explain that Taylor and Travis were heading to dinner when Travis suggested they go to the backyard for a glass of wine since they still had time before dinner! That’s when he got down on one knee and proposed!
More details shared were that Ed saw the ring in early July, so Travis has probably felt a little anxious and giddy about popping the question!
So incredibly happy for these two! Their families said they all saw it coming because they’ve never seen their kids happier. We cannot wait to see more of Taylor in her next WAG era as Travis starts his 13th season of football! The numbers are numbering!!
Full quote from Ed Kelce
“Travis actually did the proposal, oh, maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago. He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event. And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.” When the special day arrived, Travis popped the question at a garden in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. “He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘let’s go out and have a glass of wine’ they got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful. They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great. […] I was at an Eagles practice, the Eagles had 60,000 people at a public practice two weeks ago on a Sunday night. So at that practice.. I got a FaceTime call from them, and as soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they, you know, let us know. We actually went to a thing in KC Sunday night, which was an ESPN airing of ‘The Kingdom’ and went to that, and his mother and I went with him back to his house for dinner, where Taylor made dinner, and we had a wonderful dinner with them outside on the patio and to just watch the two of them, just crazy about each other, It’s truly kinda neat.”
Taylor Swift is a rich man, mom. That’s the joke inspired by Cher that Swift used in her “You Need to Calm Down” music video. It was also a hilarious moment during the We Can Survive concert that took place at the Hollywood Bowl this past weekend when a fan managed to pass an envelope to Swift from the front row. Swift opened it up and saw money to which she replied “You really don’t need to give me money.” The fan said something that made Swift investigate further and upon closer look, noticed that the money actually had her face on it instead of the historical past Presidents. This delighted Swift, who then took the fake money and stuck it under her shirt.
It was just one of many light-hearted moments during her short 25 minute set, that was supposed to be longer but that nasty curfew made her set list run short. Another moment came with a surprise appearance from Halsey earlier in the concert where she spoke about Swift and how excited she was to see her perform and she hopes they can collab in the future. Halsey told the audience:
I gotta be honest with you guys, like the whole new album is my shower music. Like, it’s really insane. I think that my assistant has like 100 videos from outside the door where I’m in the shower like, ‘you’re my, my, my, my, my lover.” It’s SO good! She’s definitely an artist that I would absolutely love to collaborate with at some point if possible.
Swift Wants Concert Goers To Have a Bonding Experience
Speaking of lover, Swift wanted concert goers to have a wonderful bonding experience. Before launching into her performance of “Lover” she told the crowd about the “romantic love song sway” she wanted them to all do together.
It is so good to see you Los Angeles! […] I wanna say, thank you so much to Entercom and to AMP for having this tonight, honestly, the fact that the benefits go to the American Cancer Society really just personally means a lot to me, it means a lot to my family, and I know so many people here tonight personally relate to and appreciate that this night benefits cancer research, so thank you for coming. On top of that, I was watching the show, and I was thinking that this is possibly the best line up I’ve ever seen of artists. I was watching it, there’s so much amazing music out right now, and the artists that played this show before me are phenomenal, so why don’t you give another round of applause to them, their bands, and their dancers. So um, coming out and getting to be with you tonight, standing on this stage, and getting to be in this concert environment with you, some of my favorite moments happen at concerts where we all know the words to a song, and scream them together, which is fun. You did that the first and second songs, which I appreciate. I love when everyone is dancing together, jumping together. But there’s one specific wonderful bonding experience that I really love during a concert, and that is the romantic love song sway. It’s good. Everybody is like, ‘We’re at this concert, it’s the end of the night, this is a love song, and I’m just going to link arms with the person I’m with, or with this person who seems nice, and I’d love it if you would do that for this song. It’s called Lover!
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You need to calm down if you don’t agree with Swift about Love Equality!
Before performing “You Need to Calm Down” off her critically acclaimed 7th studio album Lover, Swift spoke to the audience about her views on love:
“So I just had an album come out a little while ago. The album is called Lover. Has anyone here heard of it? Um, so for me, I love to write songs, I really like to write songs about love all the different facets of love. I find that love is such a complex part of the human experience because it’s so many things. Love is chaos, love is joy, love is excitement, love is […] sometimes being so clear on something that you just know it without seeing it. And I find it so interesting that you know, one of the dreams I’ve wanted to say for a long time about what I think love is, it’s a major, major thing that love is. I think love is equality! And if anyone here disagrees with me, they need to calm down. Do you agree with me, Los Angeles?”
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Swift was able to sing five songs all together and included hits from her album 1989; “Blank Space” and “Shake it Off” which was the final song of the evening. Swift told the crowd that before the curfew they had one last chance to sing loud and jump around and shake!
Who doesn’t love a good post surgery video of someone loopy from pain meds? They typically come out after wisdom teeth removal, but for Taylor Swift, it comes after lasik surgery. Swift recently stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Fallon asks Swift about having lasik surgery. A confused Swift replied that yes she has had it, but that she doesn’t tell people and seemed very confused about why he was bringing it up. Fallon was having too much fun revealing that Swift’s own mother had sent him a video of her post surgery and that they were about to air the never before seen footage. After the video air Swift was in disbelief that it had just been showed on television. Fallon then told Swift to thank her mom for him and she said she would definitely be telling her mom some things!
In the video, Swift becomes upset about her attempt to break a banana off the rest of the bunch and it not being the one she wanted. She then doesn’t know what to do with the banana, that no longer has a head. Her mom, Andrea Swift, reassures her that she would eat it. A. Swift also reminds her daughter that she is not supposed to cry post surgery. Perhaps the most hilarious moment comes when Swift slips into bed and is seeing taking a bite of the banana and her mom worries that she might fall asleep while eating it. Swift replies “I’m not asleep, my mind is alive” which is the most Taylor Swift thing she could say. Even under heavy pain meds, Swift’s mind is always working!
WATCH- TAYLOR SWIFT GET UPSET ABOUT A BANANA POST SURGERY
Also during the show, Fallon and Swift played a game of “Name That Song” to which they could only hear one instrument at a time be introduced as they had to guess which song was being played. Fallon was impressed with how Swift was able to guess some of the songs after only hearing a few seconds of instruments, to which Swift replied “It’s the {guitar} chords.” The tables turned however when the final song of the game was played and Swift failed to recognize her hit song off 1989 “Shake It Off.” Fallon was very pleased with himself for guessing correctly as Swift walked off in defeat.
Another great moment came in the show when Swift was able to see Lover on vinyl for the first time. Following the show, sales were made available at Target the next day! Pre-orders are being accepted now for only $23 which is cheaper than the usually $40 priced Vinyls we’ve seen in the past! There are two Vinyls that come with it, one pink and one blue. Swift admitted she hadn’t seen the vinyl in person before and only pictures. She thought they turned out nice!
Fallon also spoke to Swift about her upcoming performance dates and plans for the Lover Festival slated for next summer. Swift stated she daydreamed about the album being played at festivals and admitted she hasn’t played festivals in a very long time. She mentioned how she has the opportunity to open an NFL Stadium next summer, to which Fallon told her she is the first female artist to ever open an NFL stadium, to Swift’s surprise. She stated she wouldn’t be the last!
Taylor Swift‘s latest album Lover has been out since August, but that hasn’t stopped the GRAMMY winning Pop artist from promo. Typically promo is done prior to an album release, to stir up hype, but Swift is doing things differently this time around. Lover marks Swift’s earliest album release to date, with her typical albums being dropped in October or November. The early release always makes her eligible for next year’s GRAMMY awards.
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Since Swift released her album earlier, the promo is coming later than usual, but perhaps that’s a good thing. Instead of there being pressure on first week sales (Lover smashed all of the album sales this year and is the best selling record since Swift’s own Reputation album), Swift is able to extend the hype and allow others to see the repertoire of songs in her powerhouse.
Swift performed “False God” a song that took many fans by surprise and delight. The song has been praised by other fellow artists, including Country Artist Ryan Hurd who stated he wished he had written it himself. Swift replied that she hopes he will do a cover version of the song.
WATCH- TAYLOR SWIFT PERFORM “FALSE GOD” ON SNL
Swift also performed a piano version of her song “Lover” which she has typically performed playing an acoustic guitar decorated with pink glitter hearts. Dressed in green, Swift was surrounded by music and lyric sheets scattered all across the room, even hanging in the air, which is probably a glimpse of what it is like inside Swift’s mind… countless lyrics and music all over the place!
Taylor Swift has finally released her much anticipated album Lover. It was less than two years ago when Swift dropped Reputation, which went on to break multiple records, sell more than a million copies in a week and earn Swift some pretty high accolades. It wasn’t an album she planned on making, it came after what Swift has described as the “summer of the apocalypse.” It was during that time that she decided there would be no explanation, there would just be reputation. It was much needed, not only for Swift, but also for the public. The public needed to see less of her gracing every cover of every magazine, on every TV show, doing interview after interview. The world didn’t need to see her because they didn’t want to.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. That’s not to say that everyone turned their back on Swift. No, her millions of fans still went out and bought her album which sold over 1 million copies the first week alone. They showed up in thousands to sell out her very first Stadium tour (who can even play in stadiums anymore?). However, with celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West skewing the truth, it was almost cool to hate Swift. Would you want to show up to a party knowing nobody wanted you there? Swift herself said in an interview with The Guardian: “when people are in a hate frenzy and they find something to mutually hate together, it bonds them. And anything you say is in an echo chamber of mockery.”
So Swift hid out, fell in love, got to know her lover for 6 months before the world even found out she had one. It was during that time that she realized how wonderful it is to live away from the public eye, to have privacy and to have something no one else knows about, and she wants to protect that. Now, almost 2.5 years later, Swift is still living privately. She hasn’t thrown a 4th of July bash in years (we’ll get to that). She has not been formally photographed with her actor boyfriend, Joe Alwyn of nearly 3 years and they do not post photos together on social media.
Although much of their relationship is private, they have showed up to support one another, whether that be Swift accompanying Alwyn to a movie premiere (minus the red carpet), or Alwyn showing up to many of her concerts.
Not everything has to be done in the public eye. Happy Birthdays don’t need to be displayed to show their is no beef or fall out with others. Swift herself discovered this and realized she had created the disillusion that if she did not post about something, it did not happen. That’s changed now, along with her throwing big 4th of July bashes. It’s not that she is no longer patriotic, but only recently that she discovered the true value of what that means. She ties these elements into her album, especially on a song called “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince” that Swift describes the “disillusionment with our crazy world of politics and inequality, set in a metaphorical high school.
Not only is Lover Swift’s first album that she owns, but her relationship is the first one she has also been able to keep to herself. What she wants the world to know, she has shared on this new collection of musical enjoyment.
Lover proves she can make a whole album filled with happy, break-up free songs, much to the haters dismay.
A huge part of Swift’s career has always been plagued with this notion that she dates people then breaks up a few months later so that she has material for her album. What every avid Swift fan will fight you on, is that is not the case. They will bring many examples to the table (although the naysayers won’t listen), as there are many songs that are not about romantic relationships at all (“The Outside,” “Change,” “Innocent,” “Long Live,” “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Never Grow Up,” “Ronan,” “Safe and Sound,” “Shake It Off,” “Mean,” etc), There are also many songs that are about relationships that aren’t sad or because of a break up, but instead filled with hope and optimism. Take for example “Mine,” “Love Story,” “Enchanted,” “New Romantics,” “Mary’s Song,” “Delicate,” “Stay Beautiful,” “Today Was a Fairytale.” It is safe to say that Swift has more songs that are not about breakups than are, Lover proves she can make a whole album filled with happy, break-up free songs, much to the haters dismay.
Some of the songs off Lover are deeply personal, take “Soon You’ll Get Better” ft the Dixie Chicks. This is a song Swift described as being a family decision to put on since it is about her mother’s current cancer battle. She says:
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“This song is one that was hard to write, because it’s something that I’m going through right now. My dad got cancer when I was 13 and he got better, and it wasn’t a very long process, but things with my mom have been very different. This song is special in a lot of ways because when I wrote this one, I recorded it with Jack [Antonoff], and he was working, at the time, with the Dixie Chicks, making their new album. That’s the band that made me wanna do this (music industry). There’s a handful of artists that made me wanna do this. The Dixie Chicks taught me that you can have a strong female voice, saying whatever she wants in music, and experimenting with having a very feminine aesthetic, but very tough resilience to them. And their musicianship, the way that they played their instruments made me wanna play an instrument. Basically, I said to Jack, ‘Can you please play this song for the Dixie Chicks? It’s a really special song for me and my family, and they were such a big part of my life, and I wonder if maybe they can sing background vocals on it, or maybe even play on it if they wanted to.’ And he played it for them, and they got really emotional hearing it, and wanted to sing on it and play fiddle and banjo on it too. So, the background vocals that you’re hearing in this song are the Dixie Chicks, who I’m obsessed with.”
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Other songs are more fun and carefree and also give an insight into how happy Swift is. Take the title track “Lover” for instance. Swift revealed the album was almost called ‘Daylight’ (also a track on the album) until she wrote this song. It gives a glimpse into her personal life and how special her relationship is as she sings “I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want ’em all.” Swift explains the song writing process for the song, saying:
“Writing the song Lover was one of those magical experiences that you sometimes get to have as a songwriter. I wrote it really quick in the middle of the night. As soon as I wrote it, I knew I wanted it to be the album title. And I knew that writing it kind of would depict the tone of the entire records. So it was a real catalyst for what this album turned into.”
Earlier this year, Swift wrote an essay for ELLE UK Magazine in which she said “step into the daylight and let it go.”
Those became the lyrics to the song “Daylight” in which Swift sings about believing love once used to be burning red but now it is golden, like daylight. She even foreshadowed her future in the album forward for Red.
“There’s something to be proud of about moving on and realizing that real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn’t fade or spontaneously combust. Maybe I’ll write a whole album about that kind of love if I ever find it.”
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So now she sings on “Daylight”:
I once believed love would be (Burning red) But it’s golden Like daylight, like daylight Like daylight, daylight
Lover is that album! It’s her first entire album filled with love and the many faces of it. After being in a relationship for three years, Swift has found that there are still hardships to overcome, there are still times of jealousy as she sings on the title track “I’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you.”
In fact, Swift is so in love she sings about getting married with paper rings instead of the traditional diamonds (shiny things). The ability of this album to encompass so much love but also many other important aspects of life and relationships. Take “Cornelia Street” for example. A song where she reveals if the relationship were to ever end, she would be so heartbroken she would never be able to “walk Cornelia Street again.” Other songs like “The Man” showcase what life and careers would be like for a woman if they were in fact a man.” She sings:
I’d be a fearless leader I’d be an alpha type When everyone believes ya What’s that like? I’m so sick of running as fast as I can Wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man And I’m so sick of them coming at me again ‘Cause if I was a man, then I’d be the man
“The Man” is a favorite off the album and for all those who can’t stand a whole album of love songs, Swift has managed a break up song for you. That’s the amazing part about being a songwriter. Most of the time, artists write what they know, but they also write about things that inspire them. For instance, Swift wrote a song on 1989 called “This Love” that was inspired not by her personal relationship but a relationship of two friends. She has also written songs for movies like “The Hunger Games,” “One Chance” and “Fifty Shades Darker.”
The song “Death By a Thousand Cuts” was inspired by a Netflix movie Swift saw called “Someone Great.” The full circle moment is that the writer of “Someone Great” was going through a break up of her own and used Swift’s song “Clean” off 1989 as inspiration for the movie!
I cried watching [Someone Great] and so for about week, I started waking up from dreams that I’m living out that scenario. I woke up and was like oh my god I’m writing a breakup song.
There’s something for everyone off Lover and Swift has successfully shown that she can be madly in love and still write amazing songs. That she can draw from different experiences and once again put out an album that has songs unrelated to romances, songs with a bigger picture, with metaphors, and for wanting more for her family, her country, for women, for the LGBQT community and even herself.
Lover wasn’t written to prove anything. It is an album about healing, moving forward and using her voice to do more and say more. Swift even sampled music from The Regent Park School of Music in Toronto in the songs “It’s Nice to Have a Friend”. All of the royalties from that sample go to funding the school and it’s programs.
“Thrilled to announce that the first artist to officially support our Parkscapes music library is none other than Taylor Swift. Taylor’s song “It’s nice to have a friend” from her new album “Lover” uses “Summer in the South” and features voices and instrumentation from our own RPSM students. Every time you stream, download or purchase the song, a portion of the proceeds directly supports our school. Thank you Taylor and Frank Dukes for giving us this opportunity. We’re so proud of our kids and what they’ve accomplished by being a part of this project.”
Lover is finally out, it is available on streaming services (for the first time immediately following release) and it’s already broken records for the most albums sold in 2019, and that happened in only two days! It’s going to be another big week for Swift and we can’t wait to see what she does going forward.
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