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Travis Kelce was seen getting emotional when his girlfriend Taylor Swift sang a medley of his songs at her final Eras Tour concert.
On Saturday, July 6, the Grammy Award winner performed in Amsterdam when she surprised her fans by singing “Mary's Song (Oh My My My)” from her 2006 self-titled debut album.
Swift then moved on from that song to “So High School” from her latest album, The Department of Tortured Poetsand “Everything Has Changed” from their 2012 album, Red.
At one point during the performance, Swift was in the middle of singing the lyrics, “'Cause all I know is we said hello / And your eyes seem to come home / All I know is a simple name / And everything has changed,” when someone in the audience filmed Kelce.
The NFL star watched his girlfriend intently and appeared to be wiping tears from his eyes.
His Kansas City Chiefs teammate, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was also at the show with his wife, Brittany Mahomes, who was later seen walking up to Kelce, apparently to check on him.
Towards the end of the mashup, Swift made another nod to their relationship as she sang the lyrics, “I'll be 87, you'll be 89 / I'll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my God.”
The number 87 is Kelce's football jersey number, while Swift was born in 1989 and is also the name of one of her albums.
Following his performance, many of his fans took to X to express how much they loved Kelce's reaction.
“Travis Kelce cries as Taylor Swift plays Everything Has Changed as a surprise song. I will never get over this.” a publication on the platform read.
“Taylor finally found someone with the same melody and intensity as her…” another Post on X She praised the couple. “Travis just started crying during the surprise songs she sang for him, Brittany had to go check on him.”
“Travis Kelce can’t take his eyes off Taylor Swift as she does the Surprise Song mashups in Amsterdam N3. He’s totally mesmerized by her,” he said. third tweet read.
The footballer recently revealed that it had been his idea to appear on stage during her June 23 performance at Wembley Stadium in London, although he said he had been afraid of dropping her when he picked her up and carried her around the stage during his song “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart.”
“I was there with three professionals. With Taylor on stage there's nothing wrong with that. [I kept telling myself]“Don’t drop the baby. Hold him,” she told her brother Jason Kelce on the latest episode of her show. New Heights podcast, adding that he was also keen not to “fuck this up.”
“I initially approached Tay about the possibility of doing one of his shows,” he said. “I thought, ‘How fun would it be if I came out on one of the 1989-era bikes?’”
According to the NFL star, Swift initially thought he was joking, before asking him: “'Would you really be willing to do something like that?'”
Travis admitted that he embraced the idea very quickly and highlighted how familiar he is with the show because he has seen it many times. “I was like, ‘What? I would love to do that, are you kidding me? I’ve seen the show enough, they might as well put me to work here,’” he said.
