Blissful birthday, Travis Kelce! The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish celebrates his thirty sixth birthday on Sunday, October 5, a day earlier than he joins his crew in taking up the Jacksonville Jaguars for one more spherical of Monday Night time Soccer. The celebration additionally coincides with one getting into tandem for his fiancée Taylor Swift, who dropped her twelfth studio album The Lifetime of a Showgirl on Friday, October 3. Regardless of polarizing important and fan evaluations, the LP has already damaged a number of data and is on monitor to turn out to be her quickest promoting album ever.
As such, followers have spent all 48+ hours since then dissecting every lyric, and particularly attempting to parse out which of them level to her new hubby. Whereas the will for a extra steady house life in “Wi$h Li$t” and the romantic overtures of lead single “The Destiny of Ophelia” instantly stick out, it is monitor 9, “Wooden,” that has actually struck a chord.
The tune makes use of Redwood as a double entendre for the phrase “knock on wooden” and likewise a lover’s manhood. With lyrics like “Redwood tree, it ain’t onerous to see/His love was thе key that opened my skies” (within the clear model, no less than…) and “New Heights of manhood/I ain’t gotta knock on wooden,” it isn’t onerous to see what Taylor’s hinting at.
Because of this, followers flooded the feedback part of social media posts from the Chiefs’ official web page celebrating Travis with birthday needs for him, all cheekily referring to him as “Redwood.” A few of these embrace: “Blissful birthday to the redwood tree (it ain’t onerous to see),” and: “36 YEARS OF REDWOOD,” plus: “His nickname is Redwood now, iykyk.”
Though, one one that, it seems, shouldn’t be a fan of Travis’ birthday? Travis himself. Throughout an episode of New Heights along with his brother Jason on October 1, when the concept of his birthday was introduced up, he mentioned: “It isn’t a great day, it is simply an annoying day for me.” Even when Jason proposed pulling up some birthday stats, Travis retorted: “I do not wish to get into the Grinch of birthdays, however I am simply not in on birthdays.”
Nevertheless, one factor that’s bringing the podcast host some pleasure is wedding ceremony planning with Taylor, who’s spoken extensively about her engagement to the NFL star and the way the happiness she feels with him has bled into her songwriting as properly. “I used to have this darkish worry that if I ever have been really comfortable and free, being myself and nurtured by a relationship, what occurs if the writing simply dries up?” she informed BBC Radio 1.
Taylor, who has earned each acclaim and notoriety along with her deeply wealthy and confessional lyrics about heartbreak and betrayal in romance, continued: “What if writing is instantly tied to my torment and ache? And it seems, that is not the case in any respect, and we simply have been catching lightning in a bottle with this file.”
“But it surely’s good since you’re from a spot of happiness and love, you’ll be able to return to these locations. You’ll be able to sit up for different issues.”



