Swift’s 12th album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is dominated by love songs evidently inspired by Kelce.
The album opens with “The Fate of Ophelia,” which seems to recount Swift’s first impression of Kelce publicly shooting his shot.
“I heard you calling on the megaphone / You wanna see me all alone,” she sings. “As legend has it, you are quite the pyro / You light the match to watch it blow.”
The chorus includes more apparent nods to Kelce: “Keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky / Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes / Don’t care where the hell you’ve been, ’cause now, you’re mine.”
A few months prior, Kelce wrote “kept it 100” in his Instagram caption, likely as a sneaky Easter egg for fans. Swift pledging allegiance to her lover’s team also evokes her newfound devotion to the Chiefs.
Swift told Capital FM that the title of the album’s third track, “Opalite,” is a nod to Kelce’s birthstone.
“I had written down the word ‘opalite’ because I learned that it’s actually a man-made opal,” she explained. “I thought it was kind of a cool metaphor that it’s a man-made opal, and happiness can also be man-made.”
Elsewhere on the album, Swift offers peeks into her pre-marital bliss. “Eldest Daughter” features references to marriage and wedding vows (“I’m never gonna break that vow / I’m never gonna leave you now”), while “Wi$h Li$t” sees Swift fantasizing about a domestic, suburban life with her muse (“Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you”). In the album’s ninth track, “Wood,” Swift even name-drops Kelce’s podcast (“New Heights of manhood”).
