Travis Kelce subtly showed his support for girlfriend Taylor Swift buying back her music catalog — as did his teammate Patrick Mahomes.
Swift, 35, shared a handful of new photos via Instagram on Friday, May 30, with a message for fans to visit her website for a longer statement regarding her rerecorded albums. Eagle-eyed fans caught Kelce, 35, dropping a “like” on the social media upload. (The official account for Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast also showed its support with a “like.”)
Mahomes, meanwhile, retweeted a post captioned, “Taylor Swift now owns her masters,” alongside a screenshot of Swift’s letter.
Swift has been rereleasing updated versions of her first six albums after her former label, Big Machine Records, sold the masters to a third party. She began by dropping Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in 2021, followed by Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Along with rerecording the tracks fans know and love, Swift included previously unheard vault songs from each era on the albums.
While celebrating the purchase of her catalog on Friday, Swift shared an update on the status of her final two rerecords: Reputation and her self-titled debut. She confirmed that the 2006 album has been entirely rerecorded, but the same couldn’t be said for Reputation, which initially dropped in 2017.
“Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” she wrote. “The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”
She continued, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music or photos or videos. So, I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch.”
Swift added that she’s “been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals” since officially buying back her discography.
“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” her message continued. “But, that’s all in the past now. … I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
Shortly after Swift’s announcement, Scooter Braun entered the chat with a statement, saying that he’s “happy for” the pop star’s achievement. (Braun, 43, previously sold the catalog to the venture capital firm Shamrock Capital after he bought it from Big Machine.)
Kelce’s support for his girlfriend comes as no surprise. The pair began dating in summer 2023 and have continued to be each other’s biggest fans, with Swift cheering on Kelce, Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs at two consecutive Super Bowls. The tight end, for his part, was in the audience at multiple stops on Swift’s Eras Tour before it ended in December 2024.
“Obviously the [Eras Tour] threw them into the spotlight,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this year. “[Now] they’re enjoying some R&R after working their butts off, making the most of their time off. They’re fully living their best lives.”
