It’s about to be a really Kelce Christmas.
Jason Kelce recruited youthful brother — and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish — Travis Kelce for the Philadelphia Eagles’ second annual vacation album, A Philly Particular Christmas. The pair teamed up for the duet “Fairytale of Philadelphia,” which shall be launched on Wednesday, November 15.
Forward of the track’s premiere, the album’s official Instagram web page launched a tease of the track. “Philly, are we going to let a Chief steal the present? No manner,” the captioned the put up. “However we’re going to benefit from the newly reimagined single, ‘Fairytale of Philadelphia’ by Jason & Travis Kelce. Streaming in all places tomorrow! 🎄.”
Together with a sneak peek of the observe is a clip of Jason and Travis singing as picket collectible figurines — dressed of their vacation finest — whereas different Eagles gamers look on in jealousy.
“You’re good-looking,” Travis croons to Jason through the efficiency. Jason replies, “You’re fairly” earlier than the youthful Kelce provides, “You’re the king of South Philly.”
A Philly Particular Christmas, which is a follow-up to the group’s 2022 album that raised over $1 million for native charities, will hit cabinets on Friday, December 1, and have tunes from Jason and fellow offensive lineman Jordan Mailata and Lane Johnson, in addition to Patti LaBelle, Amos Lee, The Hooters’Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman,members of The Warfare on Medicine and The Silver Ages Choir.
The NFL took to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, November 13, to indicate how the duet got here to be, sharing a video of Jason, 36, asking Travis, 34, to “hop on” a track for the file.
“It’s, like, two folks combating, however then they actually love one another,” Jason defined to his little brother on the cellphone within the clip. “It sort of works actually good for our relationship. I feel it might be a have a look at the connection of two brothers and the way a lot you’re wrapped up in your loved ones’s lives and the way a lot that impacts the place you find yourself in life.”
Whereas selling the album throughout an October look on the Immediately present, Jason quipped it will be “fairly unbelievable” to have Travis’ girlfriend, Taylor Swift, additionally sing on the album — however famous that followers must wait somewhat longer for that want to come true. (Travis and Swift, 33, have been romantically linked since she attended one among his Chiefs video games in September.)
“Possibly. Not this one, not this time round. … Possibly sooner or later,” he teased, to which Immediately host Sheinelle Jones replied, “Speak about elevating cash for charity. You could possibly break the web.”
Jason and Travis opened up about making the album with Mailata, 26, throughout an episode of their “New Heights” podcast earlier this month. Mailata, for his half, shared that the lads “acquired to see the creation of the songs extra this yr than we did final yr, and I’m going to take that with me ceaselessly.”
Jason agreed together with his teammate, including, “I’m proper there with you, and I feel that me, you and Lane get placed on the face of the album, however there are such a lot of musicians.”
Travis, in the meantime, mentioned it was “actually cool” to observe the undertaking come collectively. “Hats off to you guys,” he mentioned.