Taylor Swift has sung about marriage since her debut album in 2006. (Lisa Lake/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)It's a love story, and she said yes. After more than two years of dating, Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelce - meaning we'll no doubt get some songs about the pop icon tying the knot.
The "Cruel Summer" singer shared pics from the engagement in an Aug. 26 Instagram post, which she captioned, "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married." She also included the track "So High School" from her album The Tortured Poets Department, which is widely believed to be about her romance with Kelce - after all, he knows "how to ball," and she "knows Aristotle."But before Swift was singing about a love that made her feel like she was 16 again - and getting engaged to that boy - the artist was writing lyrics about marriage. Here's everything Swift has sung about marriage before she says "I do."'Mary's Song (Oh My My My),' Taylor SwiftSwift wrote about a long-spanning relationship on her 2006 self-titled debut album - despite being just 17 at the time of its release.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"A few years had gone and come around/We were sitting at our favorite spot in town/And you looked at me, got down on one knee," Swift sings.
The lyrics also reference a wedding: "Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle/Our whole town came and our mamas cried/You said I do and I did too."What's especially special about "Mary's Song" in relation to Swift and Kelce's relationship is that it references the numbers "87," which is Kelce's jersey number in the NFL, and "89," which is Swift's birth year. The number is also referenced in her album 1989 (Kelce's favorite!)."I'll be 87; you'll be 89/I'll still look at you like the stars that shine," Swift sings in the final verse of the song.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSwift sang "Mary's Song" as part of a mash-up with "So High School" and "Everything Has Changed" at the July 6, 2024, performance of her Eras tour.'Love Story,' FearlessSwift romanticizes forbidden love in "Love Story," the single from 2008's Fearless, an album she re-recorded in 2021. The song is from the perspective of a young woman whose family forbids her from seeing the boy she loves - the Romeo to her Juliet. Fortunately it all works out in the end."He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring/And said, 'Marry me, Juliet'/You'll never have to be alone'/'I love you and that's all I really know'/ I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress'/It's a love story, baby, just say yes."'Fifteen,' Fearless"Fifteen" is a coming-of-age song in which Swift recaptures the feeling of finding first love and having her heart broken. It suggests that marriage isn't the only goal a woman should have.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday/But I realized some bigger dreams of mine," she sings. (She also sings "Well, in your life you'll do things/Greater than dating the boy on the football team" - but hey, she never sang anything about marrying a man on one!)'Speak Now,' Speak NowThe title track from this album released in 2010 is told from the point of view of a woman who is crashing her ex's wedding - in order to object. At the end of the song, the groom and the wedding crasher run off together."I hear the preacher say, 'Speak now or forever hold your peace'/There's the silence, there's my last chance/I stand up with shaky hands, all eyes on me/Horrified looks from everyone in the room/But I'm only looking at you," Swift sings.'Foolish One,'' Speak NowThis track, from 2023's Speak Now (Taylor's Version), features Swift singing to a lovelorn version of herself, reminding herself not to be a "foolish one" and chase after a person who is toying with her feelings. She sings that the person she's in love with will get married - just not to her.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"'Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings/I'll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ring," Swift sings.'Starlight,' RedSwift doesn't refer to marriage much in Red (2020), which she called a "true breakup album." Her song "Starlight," however, was inspired by the marriage of Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Swift was dating Conor Kennedy, the son of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., around the time she wrote Red."We could get married/Have 10 kids and teach 'em how to dream," Swift sings on the track. (Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy actually had 11 kids.)'Lover,' LoverSwift doesn't write about marriage on her albums 1989 and Reputation. However, her 2019 album Lover features numerous marriage references. The title track never says the words "marriage" or "wedding," but it does cheekily refer to vows in the bridge.
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