After two years of dating, the music industry’s greatest game master, Taylor Swift, is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Swift announced their engagement on her Instagram account with the caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” While the comments are turned off (as they are with every post on her profile), as you can imagine, the internet is losing its mind. “Why are you writing about Taylor Swift on a video game website?” She was in Band Hero, leave me alone.
Love them, hate them, or feel nothing for them, Swift and Kelce are America’s sweethearts. The general public is already greatly invested in Swift’s love life, since her songs and the mythos around her have etched the 35-year-old pop star’s romantic ups and downs into modern pop culture folklore, and seeing her in a relationship that seemingly lacks the kinds of dramatic complications you write albums about has prompted fans to root for this relationship to be the one that works out. A lot of people have been tuned into the lore for years, and for those who have treated Swift’s love life as a story they’ve been watching unfold, it’s basically like watching a slow-burn romance finally reach its next stage.
me telling everyone I know that Taylor Swift got engaged pic.twitter.com/MpS8BLPOZj
— Siobhan ✨ (@Siobachka) August 26, 2025
I AM SO HAPPY FOR MY CLOSE AND PERSONAL FRIEND TAYLOR SWIFT pic.twitter.com/O2gBDwphSa
— pippa (@piptweets) August 26, 2025
literally crying for my close and personal friend taylor swift pic.twitter.com/65TZrdVhVq
— burcu ❤️🔥 (@thatsoburcu) August 26, 2025
taylor is finally living her fairytale dreams that she would write songs about as a teenager someone SEDATE ME pic.twitter.com/NcQraMZkUZ
— Taylor Swift Updates (@SwiftNYC) August 26, 2025
how do i explain to my nervous system that i’m not being held at gunpoint and it’s just taylor swift announced her engagement? pic.twitter.com/x2aJxcuhsT
— isabel (@tschairman) August 26, 2025
never in my life did i think i would find out about taylor swift getting engaged via ESPN notification pic.twitter.com/pI6CrDTI6I
— scout (@kendallscout) August 26, 2025
“you look happier” yes taylor swift is engaged after years of dreaming about fairytales and happy endings and someone who will sweep her off her feet and she’s finally getting it
— riley⸆⸉💫❤️🔥 (@lightsgowild) August 26, 2025
you think you’re over being parasocial and then you’re crying because taylor swift is getting married
— Katie Kraynak (@KraynakKatie) August 26, 2025
you want me to work? taylor swift just told the world she is engaged to be married and you want me to work?
— mirrorball ❤️🔥 (@penthouseheart) August 26, 2025
A PERSON ON KALSHI MADE OVER $6,000 ON TAYLOR SWIFT’S AND TRAVIS KELCE’S ENGAGEMENT 😂 🧨
THEY BEAT THE ODDS 🥹 💍 pic.twitter.com/B07X2JHyHn
— Taylor Swift Updates (@SwiftNYC) August 26, 2025
From “I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either” to “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨” pic.twitter.com/Xakzy8Z6AU
— Steven Sullivan ❤️🔥 (@Stevensully99) August 26, 2025
While some fans and onlookers are voicing their support, others are using the announcement as an opportunity to do what the internet does best: meme.
Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨 pic.twitter.com/gRRyTc9chD
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) August 26, 2025
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT BEING THE OFFICE SWIFTIE FEELS LIKE RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/R4Nj2KDh3W
— maya 🪩 (@allmychampagne) August 26, 2025
— IGN (@IGN) August 26, 2025
not now sweetie, Taylor is engaged and she used so high school in her ig post pic.twitter.com/FJxXEKJfqM
— eldest daughter is actually romantic ❤️🔥 (@brianduuuh) August 26, 2025
every swiftie in the world right now pic.twitter.com/7g5sNIf18T
— ✩ CEL ✩ (@moonlithoax) August 26, 2025
the devil works fast but swifties work faster pic.twitter.com/c9Nf9TWzDs
— irene anna❤️🔥 (@enerianna) August 26, 2025
this is gonna be the closest thing america has ever had to a royal wedding
— jessica (@enchantedjess13) August 26, 2025
The wedding streamed on Disney+ with 4 vinyl pressings of the ceremony
— tannertan36 (@tannertan36) August 26, 2025
I drafted Travis Kelce two days ago and now he’s engaged? Feels like it isn’t a coincidence. I’m winning the fantasy league this year.
— Joe Santagato (@JoeSantagato) August 26, 2025
Swift and Kelce have been together for two years, but with the exception of songs like “So High School” on her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department, the romance hasn’t been the subject of her music in the same way her other relationships have been. This may change in October when she releases her next record, The Life of a Showgirl, which is her first album to be recorded entirely during the two’s relationship. Swift announced the album on Kelce’s podcast New Heights, and described it as “exuberant and electric and vibrant,” a stark contrast from the moodier and more introspective Tortured Poets Department. The album will launch on October 3.