Taylor Swift said “all is fair in love and poetry” when releasing “The Tortured Poets Department,” and the album’s 22nd track, “So High School,” certainly leans into the love part.
While so much of “Tortured Poets” is about heartbreak, “So High School” examines that giggly, adolescent kind of romance, transporting back to feeling like you’re 16 again.
The song has several references to staples of youth, like “I’m watching ‘American Pie’ with you on a Saturday night” and “Truth, dare, spin bottles” and “Touch me while your bros play ‘Grand Theft Auto.’”
She also references a common teenage game, “marry, kiss or kill,” a PG-version of the more explicit, “f—, marry, kill.”
While the game fits with the overall theme of the song, some Swifties immediately connected the dots between the lyric and her current beau, Travis Kelce.
After their relationship made headlines, a 2016 interview with Kelce, tied to his reality show “Catching Kelce,” resurfaced.
In the video posted by AfterBuzz TV, Kelce was asked to play “kill, marry, kiss,” with the first three options being Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift or Katy Perry.
After some initial hesitation, the interviewer told him, “It’s just a game.”
“Just a game?… Ariana is kill, unfortunately… Taylor Swift would be the kiss… Katy Perry would be the marry,” he answered.
If the reference is indeed pointed at Kelce, it makes her new lyrics all the more adorable: “It’s just a game but really / I’m bettin’ on all three for us two.”
Read all the lyrics to “So High School” here:
I feel so high school
Every time I look at you
I want to find you in a crowd
Just to hide from you
And in the blink of a crinklin’ eye
I’m sinkin’, our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinklin’ lights
Tell me ’bout the first time you saw me
I’ll drink what you think and I’m high
from smokin’ your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet 16 suddenly
I’m watching ‘American Pie’ with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around, so be quiet
I’m trying to stifle my sighs
‘Cause I feel so high school
Every time I look at you
But look at you
Are you gonna marry, kiss or kill me?
It’s just a game but really
I’m bettin’ on all three for us two
Get my car door, isn’t that sweet
Then pull me to the backseat
No one’s ever had me, not like you
Truth, dare, spin bottles
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand new, full throttle
Touch me while your bros play ‘Grand Theft Auto’
It’s true, swear, scouts honor
You knew what you wanted, and boy, you got her
Brande new, full throttle
You already know, babe
I feel like laughin’
In the middle of practice
Do that impression you did of your dad again
I’m hearin’ voices like a madman
And in the blink of a crinklin’ eye
I’m sinkin’, our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinklin’ lights
Tell me ’bout the first time you saw me
I’ll drink what you think and I’m high
From smokin’ your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet 16 suddenly
I’m watching ‘American Pie’ with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around so be quiet
I’m tryin’ to stifle my sighs
‘Cause I feel so high school
Every time I look at you
But look at you
Truth, dare, spin bottles
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand new, full throttle
Touch me while your bros play ‘Grand Theft Auto’
It’s true, swear, scouts honor
You know what you wanted and boy, you got her
Brand new, full throttle
You already know, babe
You already know, babe
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