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It'll take a brave band to perform for Taylor Swift when she marries Travis Kelce, but the Kansas City Chiefs star might have just the suggestion.
The couple sent shockwaves around the world this week by announcing together that they had got engaged nearly two years after they went public with their romance back in September 2023.
Attention has quickly turned to speculation over wedding details and according to some old Kelce tweets, the psychadelic indie band MGMT could be a contender to perform on the Eras Tour singer's big day.
In 2009 and 10, long before Kelce made it to the NFL and built a platform that would eventually catch Swift's eye, the aspiring footballer repeatedly posted about how much he loves the band's song 'Electric Feel'.
'Ooo Girl!! Shock me like an electric eal!!!' Kelce wrote, with a spelling mistake, in 2010, adding: 'Haha MGMT -Electric Feel has been playing in my head all day!'
In February 2010, he wrote: '#nowplaying MGMT -Electric Feel at breakfast, then on my way to get bigger, stronger, faster, and mentally tougher in the weightroom!'
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift announced their engagement together earlier this week
Back in 2009-10, Kelce often tweeted about how much he loved MGMT's song 'Electric Feel'
Kelce's tweet about MGMT were posted during his time as a Cincinnati Bearcats player
A few months earlier, Kelce tweeted a friend saying: 'hahaha yea Electric Feel is where its at, youtube that s*** right now!!!'
He also told his followerrs in 2010: 'MGMT - Electric Feel----> it just makes you move to the beat haha.'
The band may have been responsible for other influences over Kelce, too. The now three-time Super Bowl winner repeatedly uses the word 'electric' to describe an atmosphere - perhaps that's where he adopted the phrase.
It's not the first time Kelce's old tweets have gone viral. When his profile exploded off the back of his love life becoming public news, old tweets about feeding a 'squirle' a piece of bread and staring at the moon resurfaced.
MGMT and Swift's paths don't seem to have crossed in the music world, but the band occupy quite a different space to Swift's pop-country blend.
'Electric Feel' was on the band's hugely popular first record, 'Oracular Spectacular' which they released in 2007.
The band is a two-piece, consisting of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser who started the group in 2002.
As for Kelce and Swift, the near future is likely to be dictated by the football season starting up again.
The Chiefs head to Brazil next week for their opening game, facing divisional rival Los Angeles Chargers in Sao Paulo.
