Taylor Swift Slams 'Shockingly Offensive' Travis Kelce Question During Interview
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Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, is the singer's first since getting engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. That's a big change, but in a recent interview, Swift shot down any suggestion that her relationship with Kelce marked the end of her music career, going so far as to call the question "shockingly offensive."
In an interview with BBC Radio 2, English DJ Scott Mills alluded to fan concerns that Swift might settle down with Kelce at the expense of her music.
“Taylor, don’t tell me this is your last album,” Mills asked. “I just saw some fans going, ‘Well, she’s going to get married and then she’s going to have children and [so this is] going to be the last album."
"A shockingly offensive thing to say,” Swift answered with a little laugh. “That’s not why people get married — so they can quit their job."
Swift didn't explicitly mention the possibility of motherhood, but she went on to explain that she had no plans to stop writing and performing music—and she flat-out rejected any regressive notion that Kelce would wan't her to quit.
“Oh, I know [fans] love to panic sometimes, but I love the person that I am with because he loves what I do, and he loves how much I am fulfilled by making art and making music,” Swift said. “That’s the coolest thing about Travis. He is so passionate about what he does that me being passionate about what I do… it connects us.”
“There’s no point in time where he’s going to be like, ‘I’m really upset that you’re still making the music…the music thing that I signed up for, that I know you love, I thought you were going to stop doing that….’" Swift continued. "We both—as a living, as a job, as a passion—perform for three-and-a-half hours in NFL stadiums.”
Travis Kelce Is Very Present in The Life of a Showgirl
The Life of a Showgirl, which was released on October 3, is Swift's 12th album, and it's a departure from her previous record, Tortured Poets Department. While that album was largely written while Swift was going through tumultuous times and is a bit of an introspective bummer, Life of a Showgirl is a much more confident, upbeat album.
The project was written while Swift was dating Kelce, and the football star's presence can be felt throughout the record—especially in "Wood," a song that very much seems to be about one specific part of Kelce. Reviews for The Life of a Showgirl have been mixed, with some critics praising it while others finding it to be one of her weaker records from a songwriting perspective. In any case, it won't be her last album, as Swift made very clear in the BBC Radio 2 interview.