Jason Kelce is set to release a second holiday album — and he joked that Taylor Swift could make a cameo in the future.
“Maybe. Not this one, not this time around,” Kelce, 35, said when asked by the Today show if Swift, 33, could be featured on a track.
“Talk about raising money for charity. You could break the internet,” Today co-host Sheinelle Jones chimed in in the pre-taped interview, which aired Monday.
“That would be pretty incredible,” replied Kelce. “But maybe in the future.”
Teammate Jordan Mailata joked: “I don’t know who that is. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Swift, of course, is currently rumored to be dating his younger brother, Travis Kelce. The “Midnights” singer cheered on the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 33, at yet another game in an Arrowhead suite on Sunday.
Jason, for his part, is gearing up for the release of his sophomore holiday album with Philadelphia Eagles teammates Lane Johnson and Mailata, 26. They decided to make their initial album after Jason heard Mailata’s rendition of “White Christmas.”
“We sing around a lot, like Lane and I will go in the same car after a game sometimes, and we’ll listen to songs,” Jason explained.
This time, the athletes take on Mariah Carey’s iconic “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
“It was kind of nerve-racking at first, just because, [I] can’t really do the same key as the Queen of the Holidays,” Mailata said. “She’s incredible. So we kind of had to dial it back a couple of keys and, you know, put our own tastes on it. And I thought it turned out really good.”
Mailata also sings a duet with Patti LaBelle, which he said he was “very nervous” about.
The trio joked about their vocal warmups in the studio, and how the Philadelphia community has supported them.
“Once they found out it wasn’t a joke and there was a little bit of talent on there and ability, it made it a lot better,” Johnson, 33, explained.
Their first album, “A Philly Special Christmas,” was released last year and banked $1.3 million for local charities. The second album’s proceeds will benefit the Eagles’ Autism Foundation.
Jason’s little ones love their music, too. “Wyatt all last Christmas kept asking to hear ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.’ They’re all into it, for sure,” Jason gushed of his eldest daughter, whom he shares with wife Kylie Kelce.
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