Travis Kelce Reacts to Taylor Swift Buying Back Her Music Catalog

Travis Kelce showed how supportive he is when he reacted to his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, buying back the masters for her first six albums.

During the Wednesday, June 4, episode of the “New Heights” podcast, Travis, 35, and his brother, Jason Kelce, briefly spoke about the deal while talking to guest Shaquille O’Neal. After Shaq, 53, played Taylor’s hit “I Knew You Were Trouble” from her Red album on his phone, the legendary basketball player declared, “That’s my favorite song in the world, brother, I love it.”

Both Travis and Jason, 37, laughed and applauded after Shaq’s comment, while the Kansas City Chiefs athlete took the opportunity to express his excitement for the “Love Story” singer.

“Shout out to Tay Tay. Just got that song back, too,” Travis said. “Just bought all her music back so it’s finally hers, man, I appreciate that, dog. Love you, big Diesel.”

After Taylor, 35, left her longtime record label Big Machine Records in 2018, Scooter Braun bought the master recordings of her first six albums from Big Machine Label Group in 2019 for $300 million.

After news broke that Scooter, 43, bought the masters, Taylor took to Tumblr to express her disapproval over the deal. “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” she wrote at the time. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.”

Scooter, 43, quickly faced backlash from fans and members of the music industry over the deal, and he later sold the music catalog to investment firm Shamrock Capital in 2020.

Taylor went on to record her first six albums so that she could own the songs herself. While she’s released Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version), she has not yet released Reputation (Taylor’s Version) or Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version).

Nearly six years after her masters were sold to Scooter, Taylor announced that she had officially bought her masters from Shamrock Capital on May 30.

“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” the “Enchanted” singer wrote in the letter on her website. “But that’s all in the past now. All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me.”

She continued, “All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy.”

“I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. The way they’ve handled every interaction we’ve had has been honest, fair and respectful,” Taylor wrote. “This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: my memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead.”

In addition to getting back the masters for her first six albums, Taylor also bought back her videos, concert films, album art, photography and unreleased songs.