Travis Kelce extension, Taylor Swift's friend, extends with the Chiefs

Travis Kelce extends

Three-time Super Bowl winner, The Chiefs' star Travis Kelce, friend of mega popstar Taylor Swift, has signed a two-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs, he announced Monday.

Kelce, 34, won his third Super Bowl with the Chiefs in February, after seeing his popularity explode outside American football fans since revealing his romance with singing megastar Taylor Swift.

Kelce is thus committed to the Chiefs until 2027.

Kelce signed a new two-year contract, making him the highest-paid tight end in the NFL. Contrary to the first information published by NFL Network, this would not be a contract extension, but rather a new agreement, which replaces the one that was in place.

Kelce is considered one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history. The 34-year-old is a nine-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowl champion. Kelce broke the all-time record for postseason receptions last year with 165 en route to helping the Chiefs claim their second consecutive title. 

Travis Kelce becomes the highest paid tight ens in NFL

ProFootballTalk.com announces compensation of $34.25 million for the next two years. 17 million guaranteed in 2024 and 17.25 million in 2025, which will become guaranteed in March 2025. The average above 17 million per season allows Kelce to surpass Darren Waller ($17.5M), T.J. Hockenson ($16.5M $) and George Kittle ($15M), who were ahead of him in the standings.

The fact that two years are added no longer necessarily seems to be true.

However, he should stay quite far from his partner Taylor Swift, who has just joined the billionaires club.

Travis Kelce, a Chiefs for life?

At 34 years old, Travis Kelce is coming off a less productive year by his own standards with 93 receptions for 984 yards and 5 touchdowns in 15 games.

This is the first time since 2015 that he has not crossed the 1,000 yard mark, but his connection with Patrick Mahomes cannot be questioned. In the playoffs this year he caught 32 passes for 355 yards and 3 touchdowns, to win the Chief's third title in five years.

With her “double album”, Taylor Swift best performances breaks records on Spotify

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The album The Tortured Poets Department” (TTPD) was released as expected on Friday at midnight New York time.

Two hours later, 15 other titles appeared as if by magic, panicking his many fans, the “Swifties” best performances. In less than 24 hours, it became the most listened to album in one day in Spotify history, the platform announced.

“The Tortured Poets Department is a secret double album,” the American singer who became a global megastar posted overnight.

And to explain: “I've written a lot of tortured poetry over the last two years and I wanted to share it all with you, so here is the second part of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 additional songs. And now the story no longer belongs to me… it’s all yours.”

A new coup for the 34-year-old singer, who knew how to use social networks to create a feeling of intimacy with her audience, but also to keep them in suspense.

31 tracks, or more than two hours of song, in which Taylor Swift looks back on her romantic disappointments and exorcises her demons, a recipe that makes her successful.

Exes, rap and rock

This eleventh opus follows a year 2023 and a start to the year 2024 of all records for the star. Earlier this year, Taylor Swift became the first artist to become a billionaire solely from her music.

In February, she won the trophy for best album of the year for the fourth time at the Grammy Awards, the prestigious American music awards.

Grammy Awards 2024: record evening for Taylor Swift

His world tour, “Eras Tour”, is expected to bring in a total of two billion dollars in revenue, after having already broken the symbolic ceiling of one billion last year – a historic first. And the singer also broke box office records with her film “Eras Tour”.

But the year 2023 also saw the singer separate from British actor Joe Alwyn after six years of relationship. Taylor Swift then went out with singer Matty Healy of the rock group The 1975. Separations which she returns to in this new album.

The name of the opus would thus be taken from a group discussion called “The Tortured Man Club” that the actor held with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, two other actors.

Announcing its release, Taylor Swift described the album as "an anthology of new works that reflect the events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting, fatalistic moment – one that was both sensational and sad in equal measure."

And specified: “this period of the author’s life is now over”.

Coming back, without taking any gloves off, on her former companions has become a tradition for Taylor Swift. Her current companion is American football star Travis Kelce, recent Super Bowl winner.

In the song “The Alchemy,” Taylor Swift opens up about the relationship, describing the dopamine rush created by being in love and singing “who are we honestly to fight alchemy?”

”The Tortured Poets Department” also contains collaborations with the British rock group Florence + The Machine and the American rapper Post Malone, who accompanies him on the first track “Fortnight” (“Two weeks”).

Three weeks after Beyoncé

The Pennsylvania native has been writing songs since she was a teenager, getting her start in the country capital of Nashville.

With 283 million subscribers on Instagram, she is so influential among American youth that the political world is beginning to imagine the impact she could have on the November presidential election.

Her new album landed on platforms three weeks after that of another American icon: Beyoncé and her “Cowboy Carter”.

This new opus with rich country influences could be a competitor for the next Grammy. With perhaps, also, the new album of another star: Billie Eilish releases “Hit Me Hard and Soft” on May 17.

Capital gains : Taylor Swift is a billionaire, after a prosperous year 2023

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Taking into account latest capital gains, celebrity master singer Taylor Swift is a billionaire. This is an estimation according to the latest ranking of the fortunes of world celebrities published Tuesday by Forbes magazine, a threshold crossed after a historic 2023 for the pop star.

With assets now estimated at $1.1 billion, the "Shake It Off" singer becomes the first artist, woman or man, to have crossed the ten-figure threshold thanks solely to income from her music.

In less than a year, the Pennsylvania native has seen her fortune and capital gains grow by $360 million, largely thanks to the economic benefits of her 152-date monster tour "The Eras Tour."

According to several estimates, "Eras" is on track to become the highest-grossing concert series in music history, well over a billion dollars.

This tour, which is due to end on December 8 in Vancouver (Canada), has already earned him $190 million, according to Forbes.

The magazine estimates that, since the start of her career,  the celebity master Taylor Swift has earned more than $500 million from royalties and concerts.

Performer, but also author or co-author of almost all of her titles, the 34-year-old artist is also producer or co-producer, which multiplies the sources of income.

She also re-recorded her first six albums, for which she did not own the original recording rights, or "masters", which her former record company, Big Machine, refused to resell to her.

According to Forbes, the capital gains

value of his music catalog is now around $500 million.

The magazine adds to this heritage real estate valued at $125 million in total, as well as a private jet, estimated at $10 million.

Taylor Swift: 6 love stories that influenced her double album lyrics

A real espresso lyrics to celebrate the release of Taylor Swift new album “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19. An emotional remember of love stories that marked and inspired the American singer.

The story repeats itself. Taylor Swift draws on her heartbreak to create her musical masterpieces. On April 19, the singer marked her return with her eleventh album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, rich in emotions and stories. This is an opportunity for us to revisit the artist's former romantic relationships and to analyze the songs that came from them.

JOE JONAS (2008)

Between July and October 2008, Taylor Swift dated Joe Jonas, ex-Jonas Brother and current leader of DNCE. Their breakup, the first to be publicized for the singer, was characterized by an abrupt telephone conversation lasting only 27 seconds. His songs “Last Kiss” and “Forever and Always” are believed to have been inspired by this story. A little later, she revisited this relationship in a more positive light with the song “Holy Ground”.

TAYLOR LAUTNER (2009)

Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift met in 2009 on the set of the romantic comedy “Valentine's Day.” Although their relationship was short-lived, it inspired Taylor Swift to write the song "Back to December." In this song, she talks about "Your Tanned Skin, Your Sweet Smile" and apologizes for the complicated evening where she ended their relationship.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL (2010-2011)

This is arguably one of Taylor Swift's most publicized relationships. Despite the couple's numerous appearances on the streets of New York and Los Angeles, the age difference (10 years) led Jake Gyllenhaal to end their relationship. “All Too Well,” which is dedicated to him, refers to several specific moments in their history, such as a road trip to northern New York and a Thanksgiving dinner at the actor’s sister’s house.

CONOR KENNEDY (2012)

During the summer of 2012, Taylor Swift crossed paths with Robert F. Kennedy's grandson, Conor Kennedy. Their romance was scrutinized by the public, particularly because of their age difference (she was 22 and he was only 18). The relationship became complicated when Conor's family accused Taylor of being an unauthorized guest at his cousin's wedding in August. Taylor's song "Begin Again" is often interpreted as having a connection to the scion of the Kennedy dynasty.

HARRY STYLES (2012-2013)

One of Taylor Swift's relationships that has most divided public opinion. One of Taylor Swift's loves which sparked a lot of reactions. Although their affair only lasted three months, they shared a memorable kiss in Times Square on New Year's Eve and survived a snowmobile accident. The song “I Knew You Were Trouble” is said to be inspired by the charming One Direction singer. Fine allusions to Harry Styles dot Taylor's "1989" album, particularly in "Out Of The Woods" which evokes their December romance and the incident in question, as well as in "Style", whose title is self-explanatory.

CALVIN HARRIS (2015-2016)

The tracks “Dancing With Our Hands Tied” and “I Forgot You Existed” are inspired by her history with Calvin Harris. Taylor Swift and the DJ's relationship has captivated audiences, with the couple regularly appearing together at events and sharing their daily lives extensively on social media.

Mastermind Taylor Swift: The latest double album is deeper than it seems

 

Taylor Swift's Double album

The latest Taylor Swift double album is deeper than it seems

Taylor Swift dares to release an album of intimate confessions of rare authenticity before her appearance on the big stage of Groupama Stadium in Décines.

At first listen, everything seems cool in The Tortured poets department, barely released and already a new raid on the platforms breaking all records. Listening to it closely, the emotion continues to grow and the first track Fortnight with its soaring melody already evokes alcohol, drugs and separation like a laying bare.

This is the Taylor Swift miracle: being an interplanetary superstar capable of being herself in her own words in a double album of beauty evoking her own ills. The title The Tortured poets department evokes the club of his ex, the superb Joe Alwyn, a magnetic actor seen in Claire Denis whose evocation here never turns into a settling of scores.

Taylor Swift, confessions on the dancefloor

In her confessions in the form of a sentimental talk over, Taylor Swift never spares herself to evoke her past love: “You are not Dylan Thomas and I am not Patti Smith, you are just in self-sabotage mode, we were modern idiots , but who will hug you like me? ". The most famous artist on the planet keeps a cool head and all her lucidity. It's been a long time since we've heard such authentic confessions on the dancefloor, until So Long London to say goodbye to the city of its handsome British actor.

The Tortured Poets department, an ironic title?

The first beach of Fortnight already announces the departure for Florida!!! sung a few tracks later (in a duet with Florence and the Machine) and who should find an even more rock energy on stage... to “bury the regrets”. Just like I can do it with a broken heart, the most “Pet Shop boys” track of the opus. Superbly constructed, without affectation or ease, this breakup double album highlights the whispered voice of Taylor Swift like never before to tell her truth according to: "I am the queen of the sandcastles that you destroy, you sacrificed us on the altar of your saddest days. »

TAYLOR SWIFT: I'm so depressed it seems like it's my birthday every day »

The showwoman who will soon fill the Groupama Stadium in Décines for two evenings, dares her intimate confessions, like an American Mylène Farmer. Always with irony as a witness to her personality: “I'm so depressed that it seems like it's my birthday every day” she sings on a kid's disco on I can do it with a broken heart. We can already imagine him walking around the stadium's main stage in a sequin bodysuit to dust off his sadness. She's really pumped up and intelligent to still be able to be so much herself under the mask of notoriety.

Taylor Swift's double album album explodes the counters on Spotify, less than a week after its release

On April 22, 2024, Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week. The album has surpassed 1 Billion streams since release.

• 300 million streams in just 24 hours and more than a billion in less than a week, Taylor Swift's latest album is already breaking all records.
• “A historic date” that Spotify did not fail to highlight.
• The success of this new album is partly linked to the title “Fortnight”, a duet with the artist Post Malone.

As usual, pop star Taylor Swift is breaking records. Released on Friday April 19, his eleventh opus, The Tortured Poets Department, accumulated more than 300 million listens during the first 24 hours of its broadcast. “A historic date,” summarized Sportif sur X.

But the record didn't stop there. Less than a week after the release of his album, on April 22, it became the most listened to on Spotify by exceeding one billion listens, the platform announced on X. This success is linked in large part to its title “Fortnight” duet with Post Malone which has accumulated nearly 40 million streams. The single broke the record for the most streamed song in a single day, burying the one previously held by Adele with "Easy on Me".

Promposal poet - Taylor Swift didn't wait for "The Tortured Poets Department" to prove she is (II)

Poetic pop

Her albums folklore and evermore, released by surprise in the middle of the Covid pandemic, delighted critics and non-followers of the singer, thanks to their folk instrumentalization and their very poetic lyrics. These also inspired the game “Shakespeare or Taylor Swift” on TikTok, where students have to guess whether a sentence comes from the pen of William Shakespeare or Taylor Swift.

But even in her more pop and “simple” songs, Taylor Swift works meticulously on her lyrics. “She's good at taking idiomatic expressions or common concepts and playing with them,” explains Elly McCausland, citing the song Out of the Woods from the 1989 album.

In English, the expression “we are out of the woods” means to be safe, that the hardest part is over. “She explores this metaphor from a literal point of view. She talks about the woods, in the first sense. She sings “the monsters turned out to be just trees” and in the clip she runs through a dark forest which attacks her and the branches wrap around her,” explains the teacher.

“She takes a phrase that we use a lot in English and she explores its roots, no pun intended, and what happens when we literalize an idiomatic expression,” continues the expert. To the untrained listener, and even more so to non-English speakers, Taylor Swift's music may appear on the surface to be "just catchy songs about love, relationships, life," but according to Elly McCausland, " they deserve a more in-depth reading.”

The Tortured Poets Department, the most poetic album?

With The Tortured Poets Department, no need to dig far: she embraces her image as a poet and no longer hides her literary references. One of the bonus songs is for example called The Albatross, a direct reference to the poem The Old Sailor's Lament by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or even to The Albatross by Charles Baudelaire.

Before discovering it this April 19, fans and academics imagined an even more poetic album, in the continuity of folkore and evermore. Elly McCausland also expects a "very meta" work with songs in which Taylor Swift writes about writing.

“I wonder if she hasn't seen all the interest she's aroused academically over the last two years and if she isn't making fun of us in a certain way, saying to herself 'I'm going to give these teachers what to talk about”,” asks the literature teacher, laughing. The singer, and promotion queen, seems to be well aware of her image as a modern-day poet.

She has been playing it voluntarily since the announcement of her new album, as evidenced by the library full of books and manuscripts that she had installed in the middle of Los Angeles. With The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift seeks to show her talents as a writer as much as to have them listened to. As she writes so well: “Anything goes in love and poetry.” And in communication too.

Promposal Double Album - Taylor Swift didn't wait for "The Tortured Poets Department" to prove she is (I)

With a name like that - The Department of Tortured Poets in the language of Molière - the tone is set. Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department, this Friday, April 19. The opportunity for the American singer to remind us that she is more than a pop star: she is a poet.

For her new album, Taylor Swift sets up a library in Los Angeles (and hides clues there)

Taylor Swift has always identified herself as a songwriter first, before being a singer. She now calls herself a poet by signing the promotional messages for her album “the president of the Department of Tortured Poets”. But she didn’t wait for her new album to write songs comparable to poems in verse or prose. From the start of her career in 2005, Taylor Swift was noted for her talents as a lyricist.

So much so that today, several universities, including the prestigious Harvard and Stanford, offer courses in analyzing the lyrics of his songs, in the same way as great texts of literature.

Taylor Swift, star of literary studies

Elly McCausland, professor of English literature at Ghent University in Belgium, and creator of the site Swifterature, is the first to give a course on Taylor Swift in Europe. For her, calling the star a poet is not surprising. “If we go back several centuries, poetry was an oral medium, spoken before being written, and often set to music. In a way, Taylor Swift returns to the roots of poetry,” she told HuffPost in the video at the top of the article.

Although all songwriters can, in some sense, be considered poets, Taylor Swift is a particularly relevant subject of study for literature teachers. Already, because she gives them a lot of material with her 243 songs (according to Rolling Stone counts), all of which she wrote or co-wrote.

But it is above all his refined writing style, without seeming to be so, which is well suited to analysis. Elly McCausland, for example, highlights her use of complex English vocabulary and literary techniques that are often associated with classical poetry. “She uses a lot of metaphors and comparisons, what we call figurative language,” notes the professor. But she does it in a way that we don't even think about it. It's subtle. His songs are made of layers, and when you peel them back, you find lots of interesting ideas. »

(to be continued)

Taylor Swift workout routine: Apparently references to her love story with Fernando Alonso

Every time the American pop star releases a new song or album, everyone wonders who the lyrics are about.

Taylor's  fans have interpreted  new album 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology' asrelated to  the love story between the pop star and Fernando Alonso, the Aston Martin driver

 Since the release of Taylor Swift's 11th album, many fans have wondered who it is dedicated to, with some inferring that one of the 31 tracks is dedicated to Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso , who is rumored to have had a relationship with Taylor Swift in the past.

About a year ago, many rumors spread that there was a love relationship between Taylor Swift and Fernando Alonso.

The story between Taylor Swift and the sports star, exposed by the artist's new track? "I'm an Aston Martin that you drove straight into the abyss, then ran and hid"

Although the rumors were denied by both parties, suspicions among fans always remained.

An answer for those who still believed that despite the fact that there was nothing official, the relationship between the two world stars was still consummated, came with the release of the new album of the pop star from the United States of America.

The reference to the two-time Formula 1 world champion, fans believe, is in the following lyrics: "Little talk, long walks, I pretend I don't care what you've done / I'm an Aston Martin you drove straight into the abyss, then you ran and hid," writes Corriere Dello Sport.

Alonso has now joked about the situation by featuring in a TikTok video on the official AstonMartinF1 page in which he is seen listening to the song and putting his finger to his lips.

US presidential election 2024: why Taylor Swift worries Donald Trump supporters

Donald Trump's entourage fears that singer Taylor Swift and her companion, at the height of their fame, will support Joe Biden. And they see with anguish the arrival of February 11, the date of the Super Bowl final, the biggest television event of the year across the Atlantic, where the couple has arranged to meet.

Taylor Swift delighted millions of Americans on Sunday, January 28, when she went down to the pitch at the Baltimore stadium to kiss her darling Travis Kelce. The bearded receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs had just propelled his team to the final of the NFL championship, the professional American football league.

On February 11, in Las Vegas, the Chiefs will play their sixth Super Bowl, the fourth since 2019, against the San Francisco 49ers. The global pop star — 29 billion streams on Spotify in 2023 — has promised to attend the sporting event of the year. To join her champion, the defending champion, she will skip her mega world tour and return home from Japan.

Assailed by conservative channel Fox News

All the spotlight will then be on the most glamorous couple of the moment. And this gives fear to those around Donald Trump. Since the start of the week, the former President's zealots, seeking revenge on Joe Biden in the November 5 presidential election, have been firing on all cylinders. Don't get involved in politics, Jeanine Pirro, one of the star hosts of Fox News, said on air on Monday. Sean Hannity, another top conservative and Trump confidant, suggested he think twice.

This is because in 2020, Swift had thrown her already considerable weight behind Joe Biden, born like her – but 47 years earlier – in Pennsylvania. Last September, registrations of new voters more than doubled after the singer with 279 million followers on Instagram launched a call to do so on the Vote.org platform. Kelce stood out during Covid by resolutely committing to vaccination.

Swift and Kelce accused of being agents on mission

Above all, Trump fears that the couple – who never say a word – will invest in the campaign, which is what Democratic strategists dream of. Because they can move voters: football and country music – from which the singer-songwriter comes straight – particularly resonate with the popular electorate, who have united behind the populist billionaire.

So much so that Jesse Waters, yet another Fox host never behind on a plot, insinuated that Swift and Kelce are government and Pfizer agents engaged in psychological warfare, and that their romance is a fabrication of the Democratic Party .

Volunteer lawyers: 5 THINGS TAYLOR SWIFT CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT MANAGING YOUR CAREER (II)

Defend your own interests

In 2014, Taylor Swift removed her songs from Spotify to protest the almost non-existent remuneration of artists on the platform. Ten years later, she won her fight and is the most listened to artist on Spotify.

It just goes to show that it’s not by letting yourself eat the wool off your back that you build your fortune. Online music streaming services had immense power over the music industry, but Taylor certainly wasn't going to wait for his due.

DISTURB, TAKE RISKS, SAVE YOURSELF: THE SAD TRUTH IS THAT YOUR BOSS IS NOT GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU.

What would Taylor Swift do in your place? She would openly discuss her salary and working conditions with her colleagues, so that they can give themselves the means to defend their rights if necessary. She would also not hesitate to speak with her managers if something did not suit her or did not respect her collective agreement.

Vulnerability (assumed) pays off

Taylor doesn't have Whitney Houston's voice and she dances about as well as me. Her strength is rather in being an outstanding melodist and transforming her moods into powerful song lyrics, which give everyone the impression of being the heroes of a romantic comedy. Casually, she’s a unique talent and Taylor Swift knows how to sell herself as “the singer-songwriter we can relate to”.

Yes Madam! Tay-tay has a completely jet-set social life, and yet she goes through the same heartaches as us. Like us, she sometimes cries in bed, hates her ex and feels inadequate.

What would Taylor Swift do in your place? She would fully embrace her emotions at work while kindly replacing anyone who labels her as an emotional woman. She would also show empathy towards her colleagues, would know the power of humor at work and would not hesitate to use it.

And privilege… it helps

You'll tell me that if there's anything that helps you become a #girlboss, it's being born on an idyllic Christmas tree farm, with a father who has the means to invest in our first record label and a mother who can dedicate herself full-time to supporting our dream career. Being thin, blonde with blue eyes and perfectly matching American beauty standards can't hurt either.

BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT? NOT BEING A 1% FIREWORKER SHOULD NEVER PREVENT US FROM CONDUCTING OUR CAREERS AS IF WE WERE ONE.

The best lesson to learn from the way Taylor Swift conducts her career is that the best place to invest all our energy and our rage to win is, in a very selfish way, in ourselves.