“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” After two years of dating, mega pop star Taylor Swift and former Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Aug. 26, 2025. Swifties began pouring in their support, and soon the Instagram post gained 14 million likes.
But the post raised some controversy, with the same story on every headline, is the engagement really worth the hype? Student Eliot Dashe thinks so: “She’s a massive A-list billionaire celebrity, and whenever they share big news, it typically tends to get pretty popular,” he said. Many believe that the attention and media are deserved for such big news.
To her fans, however, the engagement not only came as a surprise but as a happy ending. “I mean I was pretty shocked. Typically, she doesn’t share her private life publicly; she posts stuff about her music but rarely about her relationships,” he said. “As a fan myself, I was excited when I saw the announcement. I think that everyone deserves to be happy, and if Travis Kelce makes Taylor Swift happy, then I support the engagement.”
Dashe believes Taylor receives so much support because her songs have provided a space for her fans to form community bonds through her music. He says, “It’s fun to be a part of a community with a lot of people, we’re all united by the same music.”
But despite the seemingly perfect “Love Story,” many believe that the two are engaged in a business partnership for the media and money rather than a genuine relationship.
Student Ray Akella is suspicious that it’s not love. “I think it’s fake, she could’ve done it for the media, fans or for popularity. Travis Kelce is mid anyway, I believe she’s doing it for the money,” he said. Akella and others aren’t convinced that Taylor Swift is actually in love.
Despite strong opinions for and against the attention the relationship is attracting, many students at Sage Creek are split down the middle or indifferent on the topic. Isabella Marriott is one of them.
She says, “It is a celebrity’s engagement, so I don’t know that’s kind of a big deal, so I guess it deserves the attention.” Whether or not the engagement is being exaggerated is not clear.
In a poll of 20 Sage Creek students, 10 said that Taylor Swift’s engagement was too exposed, 6 were indifferent, and twenty percent said that the engagement was underrated.
Regardless of whether students see Taylor Swift as just another pop musician or as a modern-day Madonna, there is definitely someone who shares their opinion. But with the announcement of her twelfth studio album, “Life of a Showgirl,” set to release on Oct. 3, it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing a lot of her in the headlines.
