Taylor & Travis: Why We LOVE Their Love

Your English teacher and your Gym teacher are getting married.

Ten little words which sent the internet into meltdown and saw Swifties across the world crying tears of joy.

But why does this news make us so happy? Why does it matter that Travis is putting a ring on it? To those who aren’t big Taylor Swift fans (shame on you), the outpouring of glee might have seemed, well, a little OTT.

Here’s my take on why it felt so damn fabulous to see that Instagram post.

• We’ve watched Taylor grow up under a microscope. We’ve seen her grow and blossom from a gawky school girl to the queen of pop/folk/country. We haven’t been able to put her in a musical box just as we haven’t been able to put her in a behaviour box. She’s lived the life she wants to live, written the lyrics she needed to write and spoken up for misfits, high school geeks, the LGBTQ+ community, totally pee’ing off Donald Trump along the way. Extra points for that TayTay. Seeing her now meet her guy and get her fairytale ending, it somehow feels like watching it all come good for our little sister or our old, beloved friend.

  
  

• If we take what we know from Taylor’s lyrics; her success has been a blessing in her career but seemingly a curse in her love life. She’s left a long line of insecure men in her wake, emasculated by her relentless success, a fame which is greater than theirs, and a work ethic which leaves everyone in the dust. Her song ‘The Man’ is an anthem for women who have rightly noticed that the more successful a man gets, the bigger the prize he is. The more desirable he is to women and the more admired he is by men. Yet for a woman, the opposite is usually true. How many movies and TV shows are we subjected to where a successful woman is portrayed as lonely and alone? Travis Kelce is a successful athlete in his own right, but let’s be honest; outside of the US, and unless you were an American Football fan, we hadn’t heard of him. It’s also reported that his net worth, although still eye wateringly huge, pales in comparison to Taylor’s. At least to the public, he seems not in the least bit intimidated by that, or by her back catalogue of famous boyfriends and the hundreds of songs she’s written about them. Can you imagine having the song ‘Lover’ written about somebody who came before you? You’d have to have a pretty strong sense of self, and confidence in your relationship to be OK with that. Here’s hoping that TayTay has met the man who revels in her success instead of feeling threatened by it.

  
  

• Something us Swift fans love about her, is that she doesn’t care about being cool. It’s why she writes from the role of the geek, the outsider, the girl who never gets the jock. It’s not cool to admit you would love to be wildly, madly in love. But she’s been unabashed about saying she wants her fairytale ending, all whilst proving she’s absolutely fine on her own. In doing so she’s proven that age old adage that a girl should never settle. All too well, I bet you think about me, So long London… I could go on… she’s written so many songs about cutting the chord when she knows she’s done all she can and deserves better.

  
  

• In a world where women still, in 2026, are told they can’t have it all; Taylor is a shining example of not needing to compromise who she is for who she loves. She hasn’t had to make herself smaller or hide her past. She hasn’t had to be a good girl. All of her dirty laundry has been aired in public, and Travis loves her in full possession of all the facts. She hasn’t had to compromise her career, and if she does knock out a couple of kids and decide to scale things back… you’d better believe that choice will be hers alone.

There will still be people who want to pull her down. Who’ll say “I give it a year”.

You know what though? To the haters I would just point out; there’s so much pain and sadness in the world at the moment. Taylor and Travis have provided a moment of light relief for our instagram feed. It made millions of people smile at just two people in love. Don’t overthink it. Don’t resist it.

It’s a love story, baby just say…yes.