Jason and Travis Kelce ‘Steal the Show’ in Christmas Duet
It’s about to be a real Kelce Christmas.
Jason Kelce recruited younger brother – and Kansas City Chiefs tight end – Travis Kelce for the Philadelphia Eagles’ second annual holiday album, A Philly special ChristmasS. The pair collaborated for the duet ‘Fairytale of Philadelphia’, which will be released on Wednesday, November 15.
Ahead of the song’s premiere, the album’s official Instagram page has released a tease of the song. ‘Philly, let’s let a Chief steal the show? Absolutely not,” the post captioned. “But we’re going to enjoy the newly designed single ‘Fairytale of Philadelphia’ by Jason & Travis Kelce. Streaming everywhere tomorrow! 🎄.”
Along with a preview of the song, there’s a clip of Jason and Travis singing like wooden figurines – dressed in their finest holiday attire – as other Eagles players look on enviously.
“You’re handsome,” Travis tells Jason during the performance. Jason responds, “You’re beautiful,” before the younger Kelce adds, “You’re the king of South Philly.”
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A special Philly Christmasa follow-up to the team’s 2022 album that raised more than $1 million for local charities will hit shelves on Friday, December 1 and will feature tunes from Jason and his fellow offensive lineman Jordan Mailata And Lane Johnsonlike Patti LaBelle, Amos Lee, The bellsErik Bazilian And Rob Hyman,members of The War on Drugs and The Silver Ages Choir.
The NFL took over X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, November 13, to show how the duet came together, sharing a video of Jason, 36, asking Travis, 34, to jump on a song for the record.
“It’s like two people fighting, but they really love each other,” Jason explained to his little brother over the phone in the clip. “It actually works very well for our relationship. I think it could be a look at the relationship between two brothers and how much you’re involved in the lives of your family and how much that affects where you end up in life.
While promoting the album during an October appearance at the Today show, Jason joked that it would be “pretty incredible” to have Travis’ girlfriend, Taylor Swift, also sings on the album – but noted that fans will have to wait a little longer for that wish to come true. (Travis and Swift, 33, have been romantically linked since she attended one of his Chiefs games in September.)
“Maybe. Not this one, not this time. … Maybe in the future,” he teased, which Today hosts Sheinelle Jones replied, “Talk about raising money for a good cause. You could break the internet.”
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Jason and Travis opened up about making the album with Mailata, 26, during an episode of their “New heightspodcast earlier this month. For his part, Mailata said the men “saw more song creation this year than last year, and I will take that with me forever.”
Jason agreed with his teammate, adding, “I feel for you, and I think me, you and Lane are going to be put on the album, but there are so many musicians.”
Meanwhile, Travis said it was “really cool” to see how the project came together. “Hats off to you,” he said.