Taylor Swift's romantic resume: from breakup heroine to global bridal icon

BarcelonaTaylor Swift has just begun a new musical era and many don't know it. Despite the announcement of her engagement to her boyfriend, American football player Travis Kelce, has been reported in every media outlet around the world and has been a global trend on every social network in the world, many believe that this is just personal news. But no, friends, Swift is a pop diva, the Madonna of the 21st century, which means that everything that happens to her—or causes to happen to her...—is fuel for a new tour, a new album, a new aesthetic, or a new storyline for her public persona. In English swiftie –as her fans call themselves–, anything that happens to her is material for a new “era.” Because they love Taylor Swift so much that they refer to the moments she goes through with this epic term, traditionally used to describe historical periods.

In front of the singer’s more than 280 million followers on Instagram, she pulled out the irony when she wrote “your English teacher and your PE teacher are getting married” to accompany a photo in which she and Kelce –kneeling on the floor– appear embracing in front of an arch. It wasn’t the only image she shared: there were several more in the carousel, one of them of a ring with a single central diamond the size of the Lindbyn mirror from Ikea that many specialists believe could have a price tag between half a million and a million dollars.

The couple, both 35, have thus crowned a relationship that began in 2023 and that, at first, some questioned because Kelce didn't look too much like Swift's other boyfriends. That analysis has now been shown to be completely wrong, since if all the previous ones had failed, the best thing Swift could do was stop insisting on that niche of heterosexuality and explore others. The idea was a good one and, two years later, those involved see so much future in their relationship that they even want to legalize it. While the Swiftie fandom the effervescence of the announcement still lives on, wife was and the mother The era of Taylor Swift is now closer than ever. Just like her next album, The life of a showgirl, who announced through her future husband's podcast that, as the astute person in the 21st-century sports world that she is, she doesn't put all her eggs in one basket and uses her fame to expand her business opportunities. Perhaps that's why they get along so well with her, coincidentally She timed the wedding announcement to coincide with the promotion of her new album, which will be released on October 3.

However, all this good news hasn't been a constant in Swift's life. Despite being considered the most influential artist of today and having sold more than 200 million records worldwide, she hasn't always found success in love. And it's not for lack of trying. In 2008, shortly after releasing her first album and without any prior publicly known romance, Swift began dating Joe Jonas, a Disney Channel child star thanks to Camp Rock and in Hannah Montana. It was only a few months, but he dumped her, as the singer explained on the Ellen DeGeneres show, with a phone call lasting only 25 seconds. There is speculation that the songs Forever and always, Last kiss and Better than revenge are dedicated to that breakup. She also dedicated a song to Taylor Lawtner, whom she also dated for a few months less than a year after dating Jonas. Fans say that Back do december talks about that breakup. Who was the star of the global phenomenon Twilight, was delighted this week with Swift's engagement.

The pop star, who was then only country star, dated fellow singer John Mayer for a few months between 2009 and 2010. She dedicated the song to him –without much doubt– Dear JohnThe relationship was controversial due to their age difference—she was 19, he was 32—and his response to her songs, which he described as "humiliating." We don't know if it was for him or for her... Probably for him, whom Swift accused manipulative. After Mayer, Swift suffered alongside actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who many remember for his role in Brokeback MountainThey were nine years apart, they were together only a few months and he also dropped a love song: All too wellShe's never said so, but fans see in the text familiar details about their relationship. In 2021, she released a short film featuring this song, and the chosen actor, Dylan O'Brien, had a look and style that reminded many of Gyllenhaal. His famous We are never getting back together It is also considered an anthem against Gyllenhaal.

As good celebrity from the US who only dates famous people, Swift also had a summer fling with a Kennedy. Specifically, with Connor Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy's nephew. The same album in which she criticized Gyllenhaal was released Begin again, which allegedly talks about the beginnings of that relationship that lasted less than a Can Gocce di Latte ice cream in the middle of a Barcelona heat wave. This umpteenth brief boyfriend of Swift's was followed by one that lasted more or less the same but in winter. It was Harry Styles, with whom she had time to celebrate New Year's in 2012. As Styles was very famous and they shared target teenager, the commercial exploitation of that broken relationship was greater. Out of the woods, Style, All you had to do was stay, I wish you would, How you get the girl, This love, And know plazas, Clean and Wonderland They have been songs pointed out as narratives of that brief relationship.

After a relationship with musician Calvin Harris that lasted about 15 months between 2015 and 2016, the singer dated Tom Hiddleston during the summer of 2016. She supposedly dedicated to him, Getaway car. The relationship was iconic thanks to the T-shirt he wore with the slogan "I love TS" printed on it.After the internet's most famous dancer—whom some heterosexuals know best for playing Loki in Marvel's "The Last Dancer"—Swift had her longest-lasting romantic relationship. The diva was with actor Joe Alwyn from 2016 to 2023.

Alwyn is one of her lesser-known companions and came into her life when she no longer needed famous boyfriends because she was already a star. After meeting at the Met Gala, they had a stable, long, and low-key relationship that didn't cause too much media attention and ended in April 2023. People He then argued that the breakup was due to the couple's huge media exposure, a cause that is not very credible because it would have already broken up the couple long before. Under his pseudonym, she wrote songs for the albums Folklore and Evermore as Exile and BettyHowever, there's a heated debate online about which songs she might have dedicated to him, which she never confirms because the debates surrounding this issue are largely the reason why she's so viral.

In September of that same year, 2023—after briefly dating The 1975 vocalist Matty Healy—she met Kelce, to whom she's now engaged. He mentioned her on his podcast in July, mutual friends put them in touch, and in September of that year, she appeared at a stadium watching the Kansas City Chiefs, sitting next to her future mother-in-law. She was coming out of a low-key relationship, and her new one had no intention of it being the same. It was clear to us. We have no doubt that everything that awaits us will be just as media-driven. Swift still has a lot to sing about, and, like a true diva, it won't come just in the form of an album. It will come, as always, in the form of a serialized novel.