"Breaking news alerts were pinged to phones around the world; Swifties screamed in the street; the Prince and Princess of Wales delivered their royal approval; Donald Trump wished them luck. By now it will not have escaped your attention that Taylor Swift, the reigning queen of pop, is engaged to Travis Kelce, a podcaster who also plays football. What does this engagement mean?"
"When it comes to Swift, Occam's razor rarely applies. The megastar is known for hiding Easter eggs and hidden meaning in her musical output; she has driven a lot of otherwise normal people on quixotic missions into the deep, dark depths of her lyrics to validate their left-field theories about their idol. Who can forget, for example, the 5,000-word essay published in the New York Times last year arguing that Swift is secretly part of the LGBTQ+ community and communicating that fact via coded lyrics?"
Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelce, a podcaster and football player, prompting global attention and reactions from fans, royals, and politicians. The engagement ignited excited public displays, messages of approval from the Prince and Princess of Wales, and a good-luck remark from Donald Trump. Swift's pattern of embedding Easter eggs in her music has long driven intense fan analysis and speculative theories, including a lengthy essay claiming coded LGBTQ+ signals. A large Gaylor subreddit briefly went private after the proposal. Some conservative commentators celebrated the prospect of marriage changing her politics, with Charlie Kirk expressing hopes she would deradicalize.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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