“Your English teacher and your PE teacher are getting married.”
With this sentence and five Instagram photos signed with a fireworks emoji, Taylor Swift announced her engagement to American football player Travis Kelsey. And the news has caused a stir on the internet.
The couple have been dating for two years, and the engagement post has already garnered over 18 million likes on social media.
The photo shows National Football League star Kelsey kneeling down to witness the world-famous music superstar. The pair look at each other and embrace.
In the third photo, Taylor, wearing an open-necked Ralph Lauren dress and a diamond Cartier watch, shows off her engagement ring – a cushion-shaped diamond on a gold setting.
According to sings the ballad “Swift So High School” from The Tortured Poets Department album, which is rumoured to have been written about Kelsey.
“I feel like I’m in high school every time I look at you,” she sings.
The song’s music video ends with the line Will you marry, kiss or kill me? (Will you marry me, kiss me or kill me?), which is apparently a reference to a 2016 interview in which Kelsey decided to kiss Taylor in a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill .
“A composition dedicated to Travis now accompanies this post. It’s so symbolic because the story has come full circle,” added a fan who has written several pieces about the singer’s work.
Dr Murphy, a lecturer in English literature at the University of Huddersfield, said the caption to the Instagram post – Your English teacher and your PE teacher are getting married (&qu ot;your English teacher and your PE teacher are getting married) is iconic because it relates to the way fans describe the couple.
It’s like an inside joke among fans. It’s used a lot on social media. So it was kind of a little hint to supporters,” she said.
In an interview with ABC News 5 Cleveland, Kelsey’s father, Ed, said: “Travis actually proposed … maybe a fortnight ago.”
According to him, it happened in a garden in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
He took her there, they were going to go out to dinner, and he said: Let’s go have some wine . They went out and then he asked her and it was beautiful,” Ed Kelsey said. They started calling me and my mum and her parents on FaceTime to make sure everyone knew. So when I saw them together – I could believe it was true and then I realised it was their accounts,” she said. – I immediately reacted by starting to chaotically send messages to the group chat. It was pure excitement and shock, to be honest.
As the news broke, many Swift fans joked on social media that they were happy for their “close friend” Swift.
Early in her career, Swift realised the benefits of connecting with fans and carefully creating a sense of kinship.
At the same time, many of her first fans – who were teenagers when Swift became a famous artiste – have grown up with her and are now at the same age where they may also get engaged or married.
Explaining why she feels so strongly about being engaged, Chloe said:
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In response to the comment that he has to “please the wedding party”, Ramsay replied, “I’m ready for it now.”
Swift’s excitement over his personal life
Swift’s social media frenzy around the engagement was another culmination of a fan’s fascination with her love stories – both past relationships and heartbreaks.
Indeed, Swift herself has previously spoken of a ” media fixation on the image of me as a psychopath who meets everyone.”
But it’s also what the songwriter knew when she wrote about her exes in songs and heartbreak. because this was the first time fans got to see the couple interact in a lengthy interview and how compatible they are.
It was almost a two-hour interview – we haven’t had this much content before. It was a pleasure to watch. We saw the chemistry and how comfortable he was around him,” she said.
Khloe not only said ” yes ” but her fans felt the same way.
” We’ve seen a lot of guys over the years, some we liked and some we didn’t. Travis is someone who genuinely loves her and doesn’t seem to be afraid of her success, which other suitors may have been afraid of, ” she said.