Where’s Taylor!?

Every great love story starts somewhere. Romeo had a balcony. Taylor Swift had a friendship bracelet. Boston Made has a parking lot in Kansas City.

This is the true, slightly unhinged, and entirely sincere story of how Nate, our founder, decided the fastest way to reach the most famous musician on the planet was not through a manager, not through a publicist, and not through a 40-person PR agency with a fog machine. No. The fastest way to reach Taylor Swift, he reasoned, was through the person who runs parking at Kansas City Chiefs games.

Is that how networking works? Absolutely not. Is it the most Boston Made idea we have ever had? Yes. Did he send the email anyway? You already know the answer. You are reading an article titled Where’s Taylor!?

Act one: a man, a plan, a parking lot

Here is what Boston Made has: websites, a newsroom, the Boston Made Reader, an arcade, a dog brand, an alarming number of domain names, and a founder who once described a three-hour website audit as “relaxing.”

Here is what Boston Made does not have: Taylor Swift’s phone number.

So Nate did what any reasonable entrepreneur would do. He opened a whiteboard and drew the shortest path between Boston and the biggest star in the world. It looked like this:

You will notice the chain has seven links. Seven is not thirteen, but we are working with what we have. You will also notice that one of those links says “???”, which our legal team (also Nate) assures us is a perfectly normal step in any business plan.

Why a parking director? Think about it. Every single person who goes to a Chiefs game has to park. Fans park. Players park. Families park. The people who know the people who know the people park. Kevin Bacon is overrated; the real six degrees of separation runs straight through Lot G. The parking director is, scientifically speaking, the most connected person in Kansas City. We have no data to support this. We feel it in our hearts.

Act two: the letter

After drafting, deleting and redrafting it more times than a bridge gets rewritten in a recording session, Nate hit send. With his blessing, here it is in full, exactly as it went out:

Let us take a moment to appreciate the craftsmanship. That is a two-paragraph email with a long-term parking pun, a song title used as a verb, an “eras” reference, a parking-spot metaphor, a car pun about opportunities driving away, a Shalom, and a P.S. that name-drops one of the most famous songs of the century while also roasting itself. In a professional email. To a parking director.

The Swiftie annotations

Swifties are famous for decoding hidden messages in everything Taylor touches: liner notes, outfit colors, music video backgrounds, the number of times a clock appears on screen. In that proud tradition, here is our own fan-style breakdown of Nate’s letter:

• “Long-term relationship era.” A long-term parking joke and an eras joke in four words. Economical. Elegant. Slightly unwell.
• “Travis Kelce’s wife.” Correct and current. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married on July 3, 2026, in New York, after announcing their engagement in August 2025. We checked. Twice. We are thorough people.
• “Shake it off.” Used here as an actual verb in a business request. Bold. Iconic. Possibly the first time “Shake It Off” has appeared in a parking-related email.
• “Connections across eras.” A sly nod to the Eras Tour, which ran from March 2023 to December 2024 and became the first concert tour in history to gross more than $2 billion.
• “Find the right parking spot in this conversation.” A metaphor so committed to the bit that it parallel parks.
• “Before this opportunity drives away.” Car pun. In a parking email. We are in the presence of a master.
• “Love Story” vs. “Parking Lot.” One is a 2008 Taylor Swift classic. The other is where this email currently lives, emotionally.

Final count: at least seven puns and references. A true Swiftie would find thirteen. If you find the other six, email us. We will add you to the letter’s official credits.

Act three: the waiting

Here is the thing nobody tells you about writing to a parking director in the hopes of reaching a global superstar: after you hit send, nothing happens. Nothing at all. You refresh your inbox. You refresh it again. You check your spam folder in case Taylor’s team is very careful about subject lines. You consider whether “Shalom” was too much. (It was not. It was perfect. It stays.)

In the interest of radical transparency, Boston Made has created an official status board. We will update it if anything changes. Please do not get your hopes up. We already got ours up for you.

So… where IS Taylor?

As of this writing, Taylor Swift is almost certainly somewhere doing something far more important than reading our email. She has kept fans busy: The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th studio album, came out in October 2025 and broke the record for the biggest opening week for an album, with about 3.5 million equivalent units in under a week. In September 2026 she followed it with The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, adding four new songs: “Patient Zero,” “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon.” And in July 2026, in between all of that, she got married.

In other words: she is busy. She is very, very busy. And yet hope, as they say in Boston, is wicked persistent.

Since we cannot find Taylor ourselves, we built a game so you can help. The rules are simple. The stakes are imaginary. The emotional investment is real.

Parking Lot Pop Quiz

While we wait for a reply that may never come (we will be fine, thank you for asking), let’s see how well you know the woman we are trying to reach. Eight questions. No googling. Swifties are watching.

A note, directly to Taylor (just in case)

Taylor, if this somehow reaches you: hi. We are Boston Made, a small family of companies that likes clever easter eggs, honest work and very good songs. We are not asking for anything except the chance to say thank you for writing music that has played in our office through more late nights than we would like to admit. Also, if you are ever in Boston, we will save you a spot. Validated parking. Front row. No friendship bracelet required.

And to the parking director in Kansas City: thank you for being a good sport. You did not ask to become a key figure in a Boston company’s cross-country love-of-music saga. We appreciate you. Your lots are beautiful.

Keep reading the saga: our Newsroom put together a full field guide to every one of Taylor’s eras, and Boston Made Pets investigated the three most powerful cats in the music industry. Find them all in the Boston Made Reader.

The fine print, in the smallest font we own: Boston Made is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or (yet) on a first-name basis with Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce or the Kansas City Chiefs. Nobody in this story has replied to us, and we have not made anything up about anybody. Photos are freely licensed from Wikimedia Commons and credited under each image. No parking attendants were harmed in the making of this article.