Taylor Swift fan has created a bracelet that includes a heartwarming hidden nod to her high-profile romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
An almost 10,000-strong army of Swift’s devoted fans are in a Facebook group called Taylor Swift Friendship Bracelet Making and Trading, where they share their homemade jewelry items that largely consist of beads.
In an apparent nod to “So High School,” a track from Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, one fan shared a brief video of a bracelet emblazoned with the words “twinkling lights.”
Swift sings on the track’s chorus: “And in a 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 sixteen suddenly.”
Rather than just including a snippet of the lyrics in the bracelet, the video showed that when the lights were turned out, four of the beads glow in the dark, spelling out the letters T, K, T and S—Kelce’s and Swift’s initials.
The X post has garnered more than 250,000 views.
Bracelets played a role in Swift and Kelce getting together. Last July, he was seen attending Swift’s Eras tour concert at Arrowhead Stadium, his team’s home venue in Kansas City, Missouri. At the show, Kelce was seen trading friendship bracelets with fans.
Kelce later admitted on an episode of his podcast, New Heights With Jason and Travis Kelce, that he had planned to give Swift his phone number on one of his friendship bracelets at the show but didn’t get the opportunity.
“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs she sings, so I was a little butt-hurt that I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her,” he said at the time.
As it turns out, Kelce’s speaking about Swift on his podcast was effective, as the chart-topping singer revealed during an interview with Time magazine, which in December named her its 2023 Person of the Year.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she told the magazine while speaking about their relationship. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for because we got to get to know each other.”
The couple made their first public appearance last September, when Swift attended a Chiefs game alongside Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce.
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game?” Swift said. “We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
In a Wall Street Journal interview last November, Kelce said that after shouting out Swift on his podcast in July, “someone playing Cupid” on the singer’s team gave his number to her. She later texted him, and the rest was romance.
Swift has since become a fixture at Chiefs games, with NFL broadcasts often focusing on her presence, much to the exasperation of some football fans.
“I’m just there to support Travis,” Swift told Time last year. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and p****** off a few dads, Brads and Chads.”
Speaking about the cameras often panning her way, she said: “I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in. There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is and you have no idea when [the] camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
“Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift quipped (“playfully,” according to Sam Lansky, the story’s writer). “I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
