By Mia Shea
Correspondent
After years of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift being scrutinized for her past relationships and judged under a microscope, she has decided to settle down with the Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce.
The couple announced their engagement via a collaborative Instagram post on Aug. 26 with the caption “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married ?” causing the internet to lose their Swiftie minds. Billboard reported that in just one hour of being posted, the announcement post earned 14 million likes.
Kelce and Swift dated for about two years before the engagement, and their relationship was very public from the beginning due to their level of fame.
In the engagement post, Taylor showed off her new ring. People Magazine had an interview with the executive vice president and chief laboratory and research officer at the Gemological Institute of America, where he shared that stones of that caliber date back to the 1800s, “when each diamond had to be shaped entirely by hand.”
In Swift’s 2009 song titled “Fifteen” from the album “Fearless,” she wrote “in your life you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team,” a lyric many fans now find ironic, and took to TikTok to share the humor in this.
Swift is also releasing her 12th studio album titled “The Life of a Showgirl” on Oct. 3, which she announced on Aug. 12 via Kelce’s podcast.
Swift is arguably one of the most influential celebrities, and her relationship with Kelce has been admired and critiqued since the beginning, with people claiming that their relationship is simply a publicity stunt.
Writer Emily Rella from People Magazine and a longtime Swiftie shared, “when I think back to why I teared up over the engagement photos of someone I don’t even know on a personal level, I realize what was happening. I had watched for over a decade as someone sang and wrote about this ultimate form of love and now she finally found it.”
While many fans are happy for the couple, that is not the case with everyone. People took to Reddit to express their distaste for fans being overly excited about the engagement.
The overall excitement surrounding the announcement has earned Swift and Kelce the title of “America’s Royal Wedding” as they begin to prepare for the big day.
