Well, it’s a national holiday: After two years of dating, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. America’s Barbie and Ken are making it official, and I, for one, could not be happier…or more intrigued!
As any good Swiftie knows, a post from TS is never just a post, and though she said on New Heights two weeks ago that Easter eggs will always be about her career and projects, not her personal life, that doesn’t mean there aren’t deeper meanings in what she chooses to share with the world. Our Taylor loves symbolism, this we know, and yes, there are symbols (a person could call them Easter eggs) in her engagement post!
Here’s what we’ve found so far:
The 13s
We don’t know when Travis Kelce actually got down on one knee (recently, by the looks of his haircut), but the announcement came around two years after the pair first linked up (he shouted her out on his podcast in July 2023, and she attended her first Chiefs game in September 2023).
More importantly, they posted the announcement on 26 August. Let’s do math: 26 = 13 + 13. And the time? 1 p.m. ET, which is 13:00 military time. See? Taylor Swift Easter eggs don’t relate back to her personal life, but trust us, they are there.
The watch
We know from Taylor’s (very sparkly! you might even say… bejewelled!) The Cartier Santos Demoiselle watch in the engagement photos shows that Travis popped the question at about six minutes to five. Did he wake her up at dawn or take her to a garden in the late afternoon? Likely the latter, but it’s overcast, so I guess we can’t know for sure.
Anyone with a passing familiarity of the Eras Tour knows a countdown clock is nothing to ignore, so this is certainly something to keep in mind. 4:54…well, that can’t be a wedding date…we shall continue ruminating.
The school motif
Okay, on New Heights, Taylor talked about Travis’ grand romantic overture being the kind of thing she’d “Been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.” Then, in their announcement, the caption read, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨.” Taylor posted it to her Stories along with a red heart emoji and her song “so high school,” which is famously about Travis (“You know how to ball, I know Aristotle”) and how he makes her feel like a teenager back in high school.
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