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IT’S FAIR TO SAY that Taylor Swift is an overthinker. From planting covert messages in her album liner notes to peppering her music videos with ‘Easter eggs’, Swift’s mind often appears busier than Harry Styles’s Raya inbox (as one fan tweeted, ‘Our generation is lucky Taylor Swift chose to be a singer because she could give the zodiac killer real competition.’) All of which makes it even funnier that Swift’s new boyfriend, NFL player Travis Kelce, is… not an overthinker.
Recently, some of the American footballer’s old tweets resurfaced. While this turn of events usually precedes a celebrity notes app apolog y atoning for having ‘misspoken’ and promising to ‘do better’, Kelce’s decade-old posts instead caused the internet to let out a collective ‘aww’. Among his posts were meditations on the moon (‘The moon looks crazy tonight… Imma chill out here for a little and just visualize my success n vibe to the scenar y’), a fierce rebuke to the cult of productivity (‘Gosh I dont want to work today….. i just wanna sleep in my bed and do nothing with my life!!’) and an interrogation of inter-family dynamics (’bout to be out with the fam for a while, could be fun, or could be reallly really boring ’). In Kelce’s puppyish dialect, ‘Chipotle’ becomes ‘Chipolte’, ‘goat-cart racing ’ is a thing and Dumb And Dumber is #Hallarious. Step aside Ken, there’s a new himbo – or rather, male bimbo – in town.
Kelce’s posts couldn’t be more at odds with Swift’s personal brand as one of our age’s pre-eminent lyricists. In 2011, aged 22, she was writing , ‘’Cause in this city’s barren cold/I still remember the first fall of snow/ And how it glistened as it fell/I remember it all too well.’ The same year, Ke
