Swifties aren’t the one ones celebrating the information that Taylor Swift purchased the masters to her Huge Machine albums final week. Lower than every week after the singer purchased again the rights to her first six studio albums from Shamrock Capitol — the personal fairness agency that bought them from Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in late 2020 — for what sources instructed Billboard was round $360 million, her longtime boyfriend Travis Kelce weighed in on the information.
In a trailer for Wednesday’s (June 4) new episode of his New Heights podcast with brother Jason Kelce, the siblings host former NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, who simply can’t assist himself when Swift’s “I Knew You Have been Bother” comes on. Enjoying the Pink hit on his cellphone and mouthing alongside to the lyrics “As soon as upon a time/ A couple of errors in the past/ I used to be in your sights/ You bought me alone,” Shaq was clearly feeling the information.
Because the hardcourt legend enthusiastically lip synchs to the tune, Travis and Jason bop alongside and smile, with Travis matching Shaq’s hand gestures. “That’s my favourite track on this planet brotha,” Shaq tells the duo. “I like it.”
Each Kelces clap and snicker on the information. “You realize it,” Shaq provides. “Shout out to Tay Tay,” Travis says with an enormous smile on his face. “Simply acquired that track again, too,” he provides as Jason fist-pumps and shouts “Hell yeah!”
“Simply purchased all her music again. So it’s lastly hers too man. I respect that canine,” Travis tells Shaq. It was the primary public remark from Travis because the information broke final week through a letter from Swift about regaining management of Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Communicate Now (2010), Pink (2012), 1989 (2014) and Repute (2017).
In her notice, Swift wrote, “I virtually stopped pondering it may ever occur, after 20 years of getting the carrot dangled after which yanked away. However that’s all up to now now. I’ve been bursting into tears of pleasure at random intervals ever since I came upon that that is actually occurring. I actually get to say these phrases: All the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”
Whereas it took a number of days for Kelce to weigh in, Swifties wasted no time in celebrating the information. Billboard reported that following the 11:30 a.m. ET announcement on Friday, early knowledge confirmed U.S. exercise across the singer’s complete catalog — her six Huge Machine albums, her subsequent albums and re-recordings on Republic — jumped to averaging nearly 35,000 consumption units for that day and Saturday (Might 31), a 72.3% enhance from the common each day exercise within the earlier 12 days from a median of 20,000 models.
Watch the New Heights preview under.