Anniversary of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Eras Tour: Fans celebrate

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On July 8, 2023, Travis Kelce attended Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour show in Kansas City with a friendship bracelet and a dream. Exactly one year later, not only is he dating the 34-year-old pop superstar, but he’s also incorporated songs believed to be about him into the very show that started their love story – something his fans are celebrating on social media as if it were their own anniversary.

And in honor of the occasion, many Swifties are recalling the fateful sequence of events that led to the pair’s connection. First, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end tried to capitalize on his chance by gifting Swift a homemade bracelet with his phone number on it at her Eras performances at Arrowhead Stadium, but was disappointed to find out she wasn’t meeting people after her show.

That moment – ​​which turns one year old on Monday (July 8) – was ultimately the start of Kelce’s romance with the 14-time Grammy winner. Swift somehow became aware of him after he posted the bracelet story on his New heights Podcast, and the couple began dating later that summer. They were officially a couple by fall, and the singer attended many of his games leading up to the 2024 Super Bowl, which the Chiefs won.

During this time, Swift also wrote and published The “Tortured Poets” sectionwhich includes two cheesy love songs – “The Alchemy” and “So High School” – fans are sure Kelce inspired it. The latter track is now included in the musician’s three-hour-plus Eras showcase – which the athlete has become a regular attendee – and she apparently personally celebrated the first anniversary of her boyfriend’s first show by singing an acoustic mashup of the track with “Everything Has Changed” and “Mary’s Song” with him in the audience at her July 6 concert in Amsterdam.

In short, Swifties couldn’t be happier with how things have turned out since Kelce attended his future girlfriend’s concert a year ago. “A year ago, Travis attended her show and left disappointed because he couldn’t give her a bracelet with his number on it,” one person wrote on X. “Today, she performed the sweetest surprise song mashup ever for him.”

“The greatest love story of our time🥺,” tweeted another fan on the anniversary. “I can’t believe it’s been exactly a year since Travis tried to give Taylor a friendship bracelet with his number on it, how far we’ve come!”

A third person gushed: “You can’t convince me the invisible string theory doesn’t work because it’s been a year since Travis headed off into the era with a friendship bracelet and a dream and now she’s fucking singing Mary’s song she wrote about 18 years ago with his football number in it,” referring to Swift’s lyric, “I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89, I’ll still be looking at you like the stars shining in the sky.”

See more tweets from Swiftie celebrating the first anniversary of Tayvis’s founding below.