On Tuesday, Grammy Award-winning artist Taylor Swift once again announced significant news—this time, that she is engaged to , the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, after two years of being a couple. The engagement offers new meaning to one of Swift’s most celebrated lyrics about romance,
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift shared in an Instagram post on August 26, which included a snippet from her song “So High School.” She uploaded photographs depicting Kelce kneeling before the pop star in a vibrant garden, the couple in a close embrace, and a detailed shot of the ring—an “Old Mine brilliant cut” crafted with Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry, as reported by *People*.
This engagement aligns with the start of the football season for Kelce, and it is the most recent in a series of major announcements from the pop star this summer. On August 12, she disclosed that her 12th studio album would be *The Life of a Showgirl*, revealed during an appearance last week on the hosted by her now fiancé and his brother, retired Philadelphia Eagles center . *The Life of a Showgirl*, due out on October 3, succeeds 2024’s and will feature 12 tracks covering her experiences traveling for the momentous Eras tour.
“My intention was to glamorize every different facet of how the tour felt,” Swift stated on *New Heights*. “The rationale behind selecting an offstage moment as the principal album cover is that the album doesn’t primarily concern what transpired for me onstage, but rather what I was experiencing offstage.”
Within TIME’s profile of Swift for the 2023 Person of the Year issue, Swift recalled being intrigued when Kelce mentioned on his podcast that he wished to meet her, subsequent to his unsuccessful attempt to give her a bracelet he crafted for her at a 2023 concert: “This all began when Travis very endearingly publicized his interest in me on his podcast, which I considered incredibly cool,” she . “We commenced spending time together immediately thereafter. Consequently, we enjoyed a considerable period during which our relationship was unknown to others, for which I am thankful, as it allowed us to get acquainted. By the time I attended that initial game, we were already a couple. I believe some might perceive that they witnessed our first date at that game? We would never be irrational enough to publicly debut a first date.”
Her presence has drawn a fresh viewership to the games. As she explained to TIME: “When one describes a relationship as public, it implies that I will observe him pursuing his passion, we are present for one another, other individuals are there, and it holds no concern for us,” she states. “Conversely, the opposite entails expending an extreme degree of effort to ensure no one is aware you are seeing someone. And we are simply proud of each other.”