Taylor Swift can turn almost any situation into a song, including one where she portrays herself as the villain.
The artist, 34, who fans believe sang about her relationship with boyfriend Travis Kelce, 34, in her songs So High School and The Alchemy, believes she may also be referencing the NFL star in The Albatross.
The lyrics ‘Cautions issued, he stood up / Shooting the messengers / They tried to warn him about her’ appear to refer to some of the vitriol directed at the Grammy winner when she began attending Kansas City Chiefs games to support her boy.
Many die-hard NFL fans were irritated by all the camera shots of the hitmaker in her box and expressed their irritation online, often in memes mocking her.
‘Cross your thoughtless heart / Only liquor anoints you / She is the albatross / She is here to destroy you,’ goes the chorus.
Some Taylor Swift fans believe The Albatross may be due to the backlash she received from some NFL fans upset by the media attention the singer received when she began attending games to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce ( (pictured from Baltimore, MD in January).
‘Why doesn’t anyone talk about The Albatross being a Travis song too? one Tik Tok the user asked.
“Everyone was telling Travis, ‘Be careful, don’t mess with her.’ She’ll ruin your career,” the fan continued.
Don’t mess with her, she’ll ruin your career. Are you paying attention to football? Is it overwhelming you? Is he no longer cool because he’s dating Taylor Swift? she asked.
“That was the whole middle part of their relationship,” the poster stated.
‘The first verse tells of someone warning a suitor not to date her. Love is fragile, don’t let the winds that come with its fame extinguish it,” another fan posited on X, formerly known as Twitter.
‘The second verse,’ the poster continues, ‘is about how she is secluded for the sake of her potential partners. She is the bad seed and the temptress, so locking her up reduces the danger (less dagger to sharpen). But she anyway escapes from confinement to visit her partner (who mocks the danger)’.
Another lyric researcher stated that the song is about “men are afraid to fall in love with her because she’s a ‘man-eater’ and a ‘serial dater’, but then they DO fall in love with her.”
“Since everyone warned Trav that he was distracted by her, the football guys made her feel like the albatross around his neck,” the author continued, adding that Kelce “never made her feel that way and rejected all the doomsayers.” “. In fact, he played better when she was there.
‘Why doesn’t anyone talk about The Albatross being a Travis song too? asked one TikTok user. “Everyone was telling Travis, ‘Be careful, don’t mess with her.’ She’ll ruin your career,” the poster (pictured in January) stated.
Many die-hard NFL fans were irritated by all the camera shots of the hitmaker in her box and expressed their irritation online, often in memes mocking her. However, the league reported that regular-season viewership was up 7 percent from a year earlier (pictured in Las Vegas in February).
The NFL reported that regular-season viewership was up 7 percent from the previous year.
The song appears to be a literary reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The albatross was considered good luck until a sailor killed it and he was forced to wear the dead bird around his neck as punishment.
Towards the end of the song, Swift changes the chorus to first person, singing “So I crossed my thoughtless heart/Spread my wings like a parachute/I’m the albatross/I stepped into the rescue.”
Deep dives into lyrics like this have helped catapult The Tortured Poets Department to instant success. It sold around 1.4 million copies on Friday and enjoyed more than 300 million streams on Spotify.