Taylor Proudly Shows Off Her $2M Wedding Ring — Revealing Why She Chose to Marry Travis Kelce

It’s still such a mystery to me, even though I’ve I’ve been I’ve been writing songs for so long. And I’ve started songs and finished songs so many different ways. They’ve gone through so many journeys. They’ve happened quickly. They’ve happened over time. They’ve been been inspired by my life, by mythology, by fables, by books, by movies, by characters, by warnings, lessons.

And and they never quite happen exactly the same way and I still don’t quite understand how it works. I have this very strong opinion that when you’re young, you feel things on such a intense and detailed level. There’s an attention to detail when you are like 17 to 22 years old and you’re longing or you’re reaching and grasping but never holding someone’s attention or someone’s love or someone’s dedication and you’re just you can’t understand why you spend all day thinking about it.

 You notice everything. You notice candle ash on the cuff of the shirt and the button. And it’s everything that makes the mythology of of those intense feelings that you have. And I’ve always tried to like without being a completely unhinged adult, keep that level of detail and intensity when it comes to trying to describe a feeling.

>> [music] >> I started writing songs when I was 12. As soon as my love for singing and and picking up an instrument happened, songwriting just spontaneously started becoming the entire cornerstone of my life. I think the first songs that I like fell in love with was the type of songwriting that I think folk and country is really kind of known for.

 It’s like that that story time structure. Songs like Harper Valley PTA or Goodbye Earl by the Dixie Chicks or like, you know, any amazing Kenny Chesney song where like you know, a hypothetical structure would be, you know, first verse, little girl, you know, learns a lesson that in the chorus her mom teaches her about. Then the little girl grows up and now she’s a teenager and she realizes, “Oh my god, my mom was right about this.

” Now the second time you hear the hook, that same hook means something a little bit different cuz she’s like grown up in her in her life. Then the bridge, maybe she goes on in her life, she has a little girl, she imparts that wisdom onto her. And then if you really want to get me to cry, like bring back that same first line of the song and end the song with it.

So that was the first thing that made me think it’s got to be That was the first type that I really fell in love with, but then lyricism I was the most intensely impacted by emo music. Right? Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba, uh Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz’s lyrics, how they take a common phrase and then they just twist the knife of it.

 Right? Like, “I’m just a notch in your bed post, but you’re just a line in a song.” Drop a heart, break a name. Right? Like, it’s drop a name, break a heart. But they switched it and I’d like Those are the kind of lyrics where I would read the lyrics to those songs or the specificity of Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional where I’d be reading those lyrics and I’d just finish reading a line and just go, “Oh my god.

” I got a publishing deal when I was 14. I was signed by a guy named Arthur Buenahora at Sony and he was just He just believed that I had a perspective that mattered. And um I actually asked him if he could please hold my songs from being pitched to other artists. I was like, “Just give me some time to try to get a record deal. I’m going to try so hard.

” I could almost compare it to the Brill Building. They have these offices on Music Row or at At they had a lot of them then, that were like these small houses, these like cottages and bungalows. Now we have um really tall buildings. Basically, you’d go there and there’d be three songwriters writing in this room, three songwriters in this room, four in this room, two in this room.

And I would just go to school, then my mom would drive me downtown 30 minutes, and I would go and I’d have a songwriting session with someone that I’d never met before, but I really didn’t want to I didn’t want to come in unprepared, so I’d walk in with four to five nearly finished things, two half-finished things, 10 hooks, because I just never wanted people to be like, “Yeah, there’s this like little kid that thinks she can swan her way into Music Row and just like write songs with these hit songwriters.

” But I think one of my favorite things about the Nashville music scene, country music, and the storytelling where it was when I arrived there. There was almost this um tradition of sort of breaking the fourth wall, making the song then a part of the song, or the writing of the song becomes a part of the song.

 And I did that in a song called Tim McGraw, where, you know, I’m singing about this this kind of love lost, and hoping that person thinks of me, and then in the bridge it’s revealed that I wrote this song, and I hope he hears it. The song Our Song, which I I still love so much. It’s it’s all about this romance and this relationship, and then in the end it says um I grabbed a pen and an old napkin, and I wrote down our song.

 So, I loved doing that. I still kind of love doing that. The kind of just like, “And it was me.” >> [laughter] >> My favorite end plot twist I think that I’ve done in songwriting is the ending of The Last Great American Dynasty. That’s my favorite one. It is just so much fun to like to tell this story about this real woman who lived in history and and she defied the social norms and she drove people crazy and she had a marvelous time ruining everything.

 And you talk about the house she lived in on the coast and basically then in the end you’re like, you know, she moved away from Holiday House. It sat quietly on that beach free of women with madness, their men and bad habits and then it was bought by me. And you’re like, every time I get to that part when I would sing it on tour, I just like have to kind of like like I wanted my grin to go from here to here, but that looks crazy.

 So it’s like I had to like taper down my own excitement that that that you can’t ever really tell if other people are going to like it, but often times when I love it to a certain degree, um that kind of tends to match up with people. And it could be that it doesn’t match up with the way people feel till six six years later.

 I loved the Reputation album. I was like, you guys say what you want. I know what I did. I love it. Like go with God. Sorry. Like you can come around if you want. It’s okay if you don’t. And then, you know, six or seven years later people are like, oh my god. Like Ready For It. Like people slept on it in Getaway Car. I felt that way.

I think the first way re I think the first time I felt like I don’t care if people hate this because I love it so much was when I wrote the song Love Story. When I was 17. Sitting in my bedroom. Mad at my parents. Cuz they wouldn’t let me go on a date with a guy who was too old so I shouldn’t have been on a date with him anyway and this is why you need to discipline your kids because they might write songs that go number one.

>> [music] >> When I wrote Speak Now, uh I was 18 and 19 and I was coming from this big massive moment that I had with an album called Fearless and it had won album of the year at the Grammys and it was this big It was the first time there was like this big debate over whether I deserved to be there.

 There are There are always going to be like little debates. Do you know what I mean? But this was like headline news. I was like these discussions can lead to a really bad place if I don’t do something to counteract them and to prove that >> just it’s big happy pop. >> Yeah. >> And you’re clearly you’re in love. >> Yeah. >> You are It’s It’s kind of gross.

>> No, it’s not. >> It’s sickeningly >> No, it’s not. It’s not. It’s not. I don’t know what you heard. >> [laughter] >> It’s not It’s not that kind of album. >> No, no, but it’s but it’s lovely and bright and happy, but it’s got it’s got >> teeth to it. >> It absolutely has. >> So, like I’m I’m proud of that too because it’s a full picture of of like the full life experience which for me is like there’s always some element of drama that someone is forcing into my >> Cool.

>> consciousness which is fun to write about, too. >> But by the way, I love being sickeningly in love. >> Yeah. >> It’s so nice, isn’t it? >> It’s wonderful. Um you know, it’s like I used to kind of have this dark fear that that if I ever were truly like happy and free being myself and and nurtured by a relationship that what like what happens if the writing just dries up? What if writing is directly [laughter] tied to my torment and pain? >> Well.

>> And it turns out that’s not the case at all and we just were catching lightning in a bottle with this record. >> But it’s nice because you from a from a place of happiness and and love, you can go you can go back to those places. You can look forward to other things and that’s that’s what the record feels like is that you’re still able to access those feelings of frustration, of anger, of really good of the really good stuff.

>> Yeah, and you you basically like I I think you know, I made this album with Max Martin and Shellback who I hadn’t worked with in maybe seven or 8 years. And in the time that we kind of took a break from working together, we were all out there honing powers of of of different types.

 And one of the things I was really playing with in our time away was writing in character, and kind of developing these characters and these character arcs and things. And that’s that is present on this record. Even though it’s about my life, sometimes you cosplay. Like, this is a love song through the lens of Elizabeth Taylor’s life.

>> [laughter] >> There’s different motifs that I think we’re trying out on this record that are um sort of a culmination of me practicing and and working up to the point where I could make this kind of album. >> When did you stop playing it to people? When did you When did you play it to uh to Travis, to Big Trav? >> Oh, >> Can I call him Big Trav? >> Yeah, yeah, you absolutely can.

 You could He responds to pretty much anything. >> Okay. >> He’s a really easygoing guy. You will absolutely love him when you meet him. >> Yeah. >> Um but yeah, like I would play it for him as soon as I’d come back from Sweden. >> Okay. >> As soon as I come back from Sweden, and I just like play it for him.

 And I knew that this was the kind of album that he was going to love the most. He’s like so supportive of all of it, but like he’s a real vibes guy. >> He’s a vibes guy. Well, you described him as an exclamation mark. >> Yeah, he is. >> Yeah, that’s a such a lovely way of describing someone. >> That’s it’s very accurate.

>> was going to say to you was that, you know, you and I have known each other for so long, longer than Travis has known you. I felt like I should I need to just I need to just check that cuz I have my the vibes are strong from him. I think he’s a great guy, but I I need to check for sure.

 I just want to play catch with him. >> No, he would he would do that. >> That’s what I want to do. >> You’ll love that. Like my all of my guy friends are like, I just want Travis to like pick me up and throw me over a roof. >> Yeah. >> pool. >> I could do that. Oh, I’d love that. >> Yeah, yeah, it’s really cuz it’s like you know he’s 6’6″, but it’s also you know, the width of the shoulders is also like He’s Seeing him walk through a door is genuinely a privilege.

>> [laughter] >> Yeah, okay. Well, that’s that’s great. I’d like him to maybe just do a wrestling move on me into a pool or something would be great. >> that he’s going to do that as soon as he sees you at our wedding is like that’s going to happen. Like he’s just going to >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. >> Oh, did I >> Am I coming? >> Obviously.

>> Is it a destination wedding? >> People don’t think that we’re actually friends. That was what Remember when you were like when you were like joking with me at the at the show we did about being sweaty and people thought that it was like a greatly offensive thing.