What Was the Meaning of that JEWELRY Book Behind Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
And were those coin necklaces being interpreted all wrong?
Ten days ago, Taylor Swift announced her new album, The Life of A Showgirl, and the press and social media coverage is still going strong.
One thing that has kept the Swiftie community working overtime is discovering and deciphering the meaning of all the Easter eggs from the New Heights podcast. It's a totally entertaining distraction to watch the smartest Swifties solve complex puzzles on Instagram Reels.
When I was watching one give his thoughts on the Pinocchio placed on the lower shelf of the podcast set, that you barely get a glimpse of when Travis Kelce moves a couple of times, I noticed a JEWELRY BOOK!
It was Vogue: The Jewellery by Carol Woolton, British Vogue’s longtime jewelry editor and current host of the wildly popular If These Jewels Could Talk podcast. Carol’s eighth season premiere just dropped and yours truly was lucky enough to be the guest for a wide-ranging discussion about my book, The History of Diamond Engagement Rings. But I digress...
What is the message of Carol’s five-year-old book in the context of the podcast with Taylor and Travis?
Well, I may be an amateur Swiftie, but I am a veteran jewelry journalist which means I need to do, as the fanbase describes it, some “clowning” and try to figure it out.
The cover of Vogue: The Jewellery is about the same green used on the Showgirl main album cover. However, I think there is more to it, because there always is with Taylor.
In the book title, “Jewellery” is spelled in the British manner with an extra “l” and “e” in the same way her song “Cancelled” is on Showgirl. The “Cancelled” in British English is loaded with meaning from Taylor's long history in London. The "Jewellery" spelling could also be significant.
The book might be related to the “Elizabeth Taylor” song on the album. The Oscar winner, who was as famous for her jewelry as movies and AIDS activism, appears not once, not twice but three times in Vogue: The Jewellery.
Before I discovered the book, I got excited about the "Elizabeth Taylor" song. It made me think Taylor Swift may have been hinting at “Elizabeth Taylor” with her jewelry all year. The presence of the book just gave me the courage of my convictions.
Let me explain.
