Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Pays Surprise Tribute to Travis Kelce Super Bowl Win

The double album is about more than Matty Healy and Joe Alwyn

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce embrace on the field at Super Bowl LVIII
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at Super Bowl LVIII (Credit: Getty Images)

Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “Tortured Poets Department” dropped Friday — as a surprise double album totaling 31 songs, no less.

And while many of the pop-fused, Jack Antonoff-produced singles pay ode to Swift’s whirlwind rebound romance with 1975 frontman Matty Healy following the dissolution of her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, there is a standout track that celebrates the new man in her life, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Enter “The Alchemy.”

“Shirts off, and your friends lift you up over their heads,” Swift sings on the song’s bridge. “Beer sticking to the floor, cheers chanted ’cause they said / there was no chance, tryna be the greatest in the league / Where’s the trophy? He just comes running over to me.”

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