Taylor Swift has made sure our August isn’t just slipping away without some big news. Weeks after going “podcast official” and jointly announcing her new album, Swift and Travis Kelce dropped a bombshell with their engagement news. Expectedly, breaking the internet with the Instagram post, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce took their fairytale romance a step further, and the romantic proposal looked straight out of a dream. Swift officially said “Yes” and shared the milestone moment set to The Tortured Poet’s Department track, “So High School” on Instagram. Wondering why this song makes perfect sense to celebrate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s love story? Let us remind you of these easter eggs from “So High School” that indicated “Tayvis” were always endgame.
Besides celebrating the momentous occasion, Swifties are also back to deciphering every hidden meaning and easter egg in the singer’s engagement post. While her stunning engagement ring is drawing all the attention, the choice of caption, which endearingly reads, “Your English teacher and gym teacher are getting married”, has also earned praise for its witty take. The high-school coded announcement also came with the actual song “So High School” playing in the background.
While the song has widely been recognised as the singer’s most notable work in terms of providing an insight into her romance with Kelce, now, it has also attained the iconic status of being her engagement announcement song. Considering Swifties and non-Swifties have often turned to the singer’s lyrics to express their love, heartbreak, wedding and engagement announcements, fans always wondered which track the pop princess herself would pick from her long list of romance anthems ranging from “Love Story” to “Lover.”
However, as Swift chose “So High School”, many wondered what it meant for the singer. Here’s why we think it’s the fitting track as Tayvis embark on a new era of their relationship.
How “So High School” perfectly sums up Taylor Swift’s romantic journey?
Anyone who was listening to Taylor Swift in 2006 and has been a part of the journey ever since knows how the singer has changed the pop genre and songwriting in the romance space, from the get-go. She debuted on the music scene with powerful heartbreak ballads like “Teardrops on My Guitar” and impeccably also lent her voice to those non-main-character feelings with songs like “You Belong With Me.” Elsewhere, she kept the dreamer in us alive and promised everyone a timeless romance by singing “Love Story.”
Throughout her discography, Swift has manifested a great love affair that comes with the butterflies and innocence of a high school romance, and with Kelce, she finally has it. Hence, in “So High School”, she boasts of a romance that is easy-going and comfortable, filled with Saturday movie nights and stealing moments of bliss from the chaos outside. From the obvious hints directed at Kelce to other easter eggs, here is more about “So High School” and its key lyrics.
Easter eggs in the “So High School” song that promised us a Tayvis happy ending
Even though The Tortured Poets Department is rumoured to be largely about her exes, Matty Healy — lead vocalist of The 1975 — and Joe Alwyn, in the Anthology part of her double album, are two songs that quietly celebrate her bond with Kelce, specifically, “So High School” and “The Alchemy.” Apart from being references to her new romance, these tracks also became the pillars of hope and new beginnings, in an album that otherwise addressed an emotionally tumultuous time.
In “So High School”, Swift drops multiple easter eggs about Kelce, including a reference to his NFL career as she sings, “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle.” Over a year later, she cements this very feeling in the cute caption “Your English teacher and gym teacher are getting married” for her engagement photo. Talk about a fitting callback.
Furthermore, the song intro has Swift expressing the joy of being in love like a teenager as she sings, “I feel so high school every time I look at you / I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you.” Glimpses of this giddy romance between her and Kelce were recently displayed in the New Heights podcast episode as shared kisses and shared swoonworthy gazes, making Travis’ brother Jason Kelce a complete third wheel.
The couple also echoed her lines from the song, “Cheeks pink in the twinklin’ lights”, while sharing adorable banter during the show. Interestingly, this line had also received a special shoutout in the song’s lyric video, where the couple’s initials — TK and TS are highlighted as a subtle confirmation about the track being dedicated to Kelce.
Hints of a happy ending with Kelce
The biggest hint about their future, however, appears in the lines “Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? (Kill me) / It’s just a game, but really (Really) / I’m bettin’ on all three (All three) for us two.” There we go, Swift had already placed her bets on marrying Kelce, and with their engagement announcement, the prophecy seems to have been fulfilled. Funnily, this line also serves as a callback to Kelce’s comment from a 2016 interview where he was asked the “Kiss, Marry, Kill” question and he answered “Kiss” while picking Swift. Such insane foreshadowing of their romance only makes our hearts flutter even more amid their “soon-to-be married” status.
A nod to Travis Kelce’s love language
During her appearance on New Heights, Swift confessed about how initially, she felt Travis threw a “man tantrum” about not getting to meet her during her Eras tour performance at Arrowhead Stadium in 2023.
Kelce had famously said on his podcast, “I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs she sings, so I was a little butthurt that I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”
Cut to 2025 and two years into their romance, Swift looked back at his gesture and compared his grand efforts to woo her to an “’80s John Hughes movie.”
While Swift admitted that she wrote about such grand gestures of love in her songs, she didn’t expect it would come true. No wonder, in “So High School”, she alludes to the love language of Kelce and sings, “You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her.”
From writing about songs about a perfect high-school romance to finding “the one” in Kelce and feeling “So High School”, Taylor Swift has indeed come a full circle. Following the couple’s adorable engagement, “So High School” has now found a fresh boost on streaming platforms and a whole new fandom, too, given that the worlds of pop and NFL are now forever collided.
(Main and featured image: Travis Kelce/Instagram)
This article first appeared in PrestigeOnline Singapore
