"Taylor Swift wrote today's headlines when she was only 17 with her country hit Love Story: Baby, just say yes! Now, at 35, she has announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, her American football player partner of two years, who got down on one knee and popped the question. Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, she captioned the subsequently staged engagement photos of them in a rose garden. It's gaudy, it's cringe, it's gleefully too much"
"When the pop star who has soundtracked your entire adult love life gets engaged, it's discombobulating. Especially when they are similar in age. Over two decades, Swift has gifted a song for every crush, relationship, situationship, and heartbreak. (I even once plagiarised All Too Well lyrics in a very embarrassing email to an ex-boyfriend; he never did reply to my calling him so casually cruel in the name of being honest.) But marriage is new territory."
The engagement announcement links Taylor Swift, now 35, with Travis Kelce, her American football partner of two years, who proposed with staged rose-garden photos captioned 'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.' Reactions range from calling the imagery gaudy, cringe and gleefully excessive to finding it perfect and emotionally affecting. Swift began at 17 with 'Love Story' and has produced songs for crushes, relationships, situationships and heartbreak over two decades. Fans experience bittersweet pangs of change and reflection as marriage enters the thematic territory she has long narrated.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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