Relationships are about give and take: Taylor Swift gives boyfriend Travis Kelce an early preview of her just-announced new album, The Tortured Poets Department, she travels to see him play. Pretty basic, you know?

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Relationship Timeline, From Eras Tour to the Super Bowl

Yes, as Kelce revealed in a press conference Monday, he’s listened to parts of Swift’s hotly-anticipated eleventh studio album ahead of its April 19 release date, which she announced Sunday evening at the Grammys 2024 while accepting her first award of the evening, for Best Pop Vocal Album. (Later in the ceremony, Swift accepted her fourth Album of the Year award, pulling past Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Sinatra to become the winningest artist of the award.)

Kelce was ostensibly participating in the press conference in support of his own work commitment, this coming weekend’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas, but, naturally, was asked about his girlfriend’s work stuff.

“I have heard some of it, yes. And it is unbelievable,” he told the gathered reporters of the new album. “I can’t wait for her to shake up the world when it finally drops.”

Kelce said he could “neither confirm nor deny” which track is his favorite, and said, “I can’t give you anything. I’ll leave that up to her.”

Swift, who resumes her Eras Tour on Wednesday in Tokyo for a four-night stand (which, just saying, would technically give her time to make it to Vegas for kickoff on Sunday, as even the Japanese Embassy has pointed out), revealed the titles of the 17 tracks that will appear on the album via an Instagram post Monday evening.

As fans speculate about the inspiration behind the album, which she referred to in her Grammys acceptance speech-turned-album-announcement as “a secret that I've been keeping from you for the last two years,” it’s hard not to note that the time span covers both Swift’s breakup with British actor Joe Alwyn, whom she dated for about six years, and the beginning of her romance with Kelce.

Track titles such as “So Long, London,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” seem to indicate that romantic desolation is almost certainly on the menu. Oh, and its April 19, 2024 release date is a year to the day from the day that many of Swift’s friends suddenly unfollowed Alwyn on social platforms, and as we know, there’s no such thing as a coincidence in Swiftlandia. Fans also quickly noticed that the album’s title, which it shares with the second track, echoes the title of the short-lived group chat that Alwyn had with co-stars Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, the Tortured Man Club. 

While she was dating Alwyn, Swift kept a much lower profile than usual. In an interview with Time in December 2023 around her Person of the Year honors, Swift made it clear that she has no intention of laying low in her relationship with Kelce.

“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she said. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

Representatives for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift did not respond to requests for comment.