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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce broke his silence on his girlfriend, pop superstar Taylor Swift, buying back her music.
Travis and his brother, retired former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce were joined by Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal during the latest episode of his New Heights podcast released on Wednesday (June 4). O'Neal, who described himself as a Swiftie, played Swift's song 'I Knew You Were Trouble' on his phone while mouthing lyrics, which got an excited reaction from the Kelce brothers.
“That’s my favorite song in the world, brother,” O’Neal said in the clip.
“Shout out to Tay Tay,” Travis responded. “Just got that song back, too. Just bought all her music back so it’s finally hers, man, I appreciate that, dog. Love you big dog.”
Swift repurchased her masters, which includes her first six studio albums, as part of a $360 million deal announced last Friday (May 30).
“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,” she wrote in a lengthy message posted on her official website at the time. “A flashback sequence of all the time I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through.
“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now. I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found that this is really happening. I really get to say those words.
“All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs… to me.”
Record executive Scooter Braun bought the rights to Swift's first six albums -- Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation -- for nearly $300 million prior to them being acquired by Shamrock Capital, an investment firm, one year later. The singer signed a new deal with Universal Music Group and Republic Records in 2018, at which point she recorded her last five albums Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department.
Swift announced the deal in a post shared on her social media accounts showing her sitting with her first six original albums around her and the caption, "You belong with me," referencing her 2008 hit single.