How many times have you heard the name Travis Kelce in the last week? Personally, I’ve lost count. To be completely honest, I was hoping that the hype around the football player’s rumored relationship with Taylor Swift would only be an object of media obsession for about a week before we all moved onto something else. Is it really that interesting when celebrities are romantically linked to each other? Famous person dates other famous person, news at 11
But we’re talking about the storied love life of a pop star who sold out stadiums around the world and is currently threatening to turn your local AMC into a decibel-shattering sing-along. Of course people are going to be … a bit obsessively invested in all of this, especially given the raging internet debate about whether Swift is secretly lesbian or bisexual, as the “Gaylors” believe.
The point is: If you’re feeling left out of the monoculture lately, I don’t blame you. The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce relationship feels like a perfect storm designed to consume American civilization. It hits every quadrant of our society: pop girlies, internet-poisoned posters, red-blooded sports fans, and suburban tabloid readers. If we’re not careful, this dyad will be all anyone discusses until the inevitable breakup song gets released in 2025. And that’s a long time to sit silent