On August 13th, 2025, Taylor Swift appeared on The New Heights Podcast (Kelce and Kelce). The New Heights Podcast is a weekly sports show hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce. During this podcast, Taylor gave us an insight into what her life looked like during The Eras Tour and what her and Travis’s relationship is. Since the beginning of this special podcast, we have heard so many new announcements from Taylor and Travis, some of them including a new album and her recent engagement.
Taylor Swift announced her long-awaited 12th studio album called The Life of a Showgirl. On the podcast, Taylor says, “This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour.” Max Martin and Shellback will be the ones producing this album. This will be the first album that she will have written and recorded with just these two producers. She says on the podcast that the lyrics will be similar to Folklore, but the sound will be more like her album 1989. The Life of a Showgirl will be released on October 3rd. A lot of Swifties believe that this album could possibly be a double album or that Taylor is hiding something. She mentioned multiple times in the podcast that there are only 12 tracks on her 12th album, which leads people to think that there is either another album coming or a possible Eras Tour documentary. During The Eras Tour, there were lots of reports that suggested that she was filming everything about her life on The Eras Tour. On Disney+, there is a movie of her Eras Tour, but this showcases her life onstage, while if a documentary is released, it will be about her life off stage as well as on stage.
On August 21st, 2025, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on all social media platforms. This is something that a lot of the Swifties have been waiting for after Travis Kelce posted a carousel of pictures on Instagram. In one of the pictures, Taylor and Travis were posing for the camera, but little did he know that his phone was on and the people could see his phone background. The picture in his background looked as if Taylor was holding up her left hand to show off a ring. Swifties went crazy over this new news. Taylor and Travis posted their engagement photos and put the caption as “Your English teacher and gym teacher are getting married.” Before they announced this new and exciting information, Taylor and Travis told us on the podcast the story of what brought them together. The story is that Travis attended one of Taylor Swift’s concerts that was taking place at the Chiefs’ football stadium in July 2023. At this concert, Travis had made a friendship bracelet, which is something that Swifties traded and gave away during the Eras Tour concerts, that had his number on it. He wanted to give it to Taylor, but was not able to get it to her. During the next podcast that Travis and Jason did, they talked about his experience at the concert, and that he was disappointed he never got to give Taylor his friendship bracelet. Travis expressed his desire to meet her, and Taylor ended up contacting him, and they started seeing each other soon after. Later that year, their relationship went public in October 2023 when they were photographed holding hands after the Saturday Night Live show.
Social media is all about the new Taylor updates. Different brands like Starbucks, United Airlines, and many more have used the signature green and sparkling orange to announce new things for their brands. Brands are also using Taylor and Travis’s engagement photos to increase their views, connect with fans, and drive their sales.
Also on the New Heights Podcast, Taylor talks about how she recently took back all her old albums. The first six albums that Taylor recorded were originally under the record label called “Big Machine.” This means that she didn’t own any of the albums that were recorded before her album Lover, which she released in 2019. In the last couple of years, Taylor has been working to rerecord her albums that she didn’t own. Out of the six albums that Taylor didn’t own, she rerecorded Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989. That is why when you look up different Taylor Swift albums, some of them will say “Taylor’s Version” after the title. That is how you know that it is one of the albums that she rerecorded. Taylor Swift has worked very hard trying to get her albums back from “Big Machine,” and they have been sold to other record labels multiple times. In May of 2025, Taylor Swift announced that she had bought her previous albums back. She now has ownership of all of her albums. Taylor said in the podcast, “I thought about not owning my music every day. It was like an intrusive thought that I had every day,” She also tells us that she had been saving to buy her music back since she was a teenager.
Taylor Swift has been very busy and keeps surprising us with new updates on albums and her relationship with Travis Kelce. She has kept us on our toes, and we keep learning new things every week. Lots of people think that there is still a lot more to uncover with her album The Life Of A Showgirl, including a possible musical or even a double album. As we try to keep up with what Taylor has in store for us, we will keep looking for easter eggs from her past concerts and music videos that will give us clues for what is to come!
Work Cited
Kelce, Travis, and Jason Kelce. “Taylor Swift on Reclaiming Her Masters, Wrapping The Eras Tour, and The Life of a Showgirl | NHTV.” New Heights, 29 August 2025, https://youtu.be/M2lX9XESvDE?si=DnOw0AY0O-ya8eXy.
