Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift decided this week to…

Yeah, I’m not doing this. I’ll let everybody else with a keyboard and a dream dive into that topic. I’m sticking with something safe this week — like religion or abortion rights.

It’s kind of crazy how infatuated we are with celebrities, isn’t it? I mean, like Billy Joel famously said, we didn’t start the fire. People have been obsessed with the rich and famous since Genghis Khan started sharing his favorite appetizers on Facebook, and it only picked up with Lizzie Borden’s “Hot Girl Summer 1881” on Instagram. If the “chosen ones” say or do something, well, then something very important just took place, and we all better take note.

It’s definitely intensified over time, and social media no doubt plays a part. We have direct access to people now and can “hear” directly from them. They choose the narrative now on what gets digested by their fans for the most part, and I feel like regular folks just feel a deeper connection to them than ever before.

And, like I said, people have long been fascinated by the famous. I’m of an age where a lot of girls I went to school with wore leg warmers like Olivia Newton John and the dancers in Flashdance, before graduating to a style of rubber bracelets, lace gloves and crucifix necklaces, a la Madonna. I’m not wanting to limit this to just the girls, to be fair. I once went into a barbershop with a picture of former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon and asked for that haircut.

Oh, what I’d give now to ask for any kind of haircut.

But, like my hairline, I’ve left my fascination with celebrities in the past. There are still plenty of actors, musicians and athletes that I greatly admire, and I’m sure to watch their movies, listen to their music and watch them on the field of play every chance I get.

But I don’t care what Robert DeNiro ate for breakfast, or what kind of cat Eric Clapton has or which candidate Lamar Jackson is backing for the presidency. Yet every time I turn on a talk show, I see Scott Baio or Chris Evans or Kid Rock or Bruce Springsteen telling me how I should feel or think.

Look, if I’m in the market for a Rolls Royce or want to learn more about what to look for when hiring a personal assistant for my personal assistant’s personal assistant, I’ll listen. But I really don’t need Chachi or Captain America telling me about real-life problems or solutions. It’s not that they’re not allowed to have them, I just don’t really care. It won’t impact my feelings on Gaza or tariffs or wind farms or who should be allowed to marry who.

I’m not completely naive. I know that people platform these celebrities because celebrities bring eyes, and eyes bring money. But the reason they bring so many eyes is because we are obsessed with everything they are doing. Is it a chicken-or-egg thing? Not really. I find it hard to believe that Taylor Swift became famous because of her political beliefs, as much as I think Taylor Swift became famous because of her music, and now people care about the rest.

And this isn’t about them having to “shut up and dribble,” as Laura Ingraham said about NBA player LeBron James weighing in with his political beliefs. They’re allowed to, just as much as you and Ingraham and I am. My problem falls in the amplification of their opinions, as if they are more important than the rest of civilization’s.

And that’s not necessarily their doing. It’s ours. We are the ones that hang on every word they say and “white knight” them on social media when someone has the audacity to criticize them over anything.

And the other side is equally as zany — you know, the ones who despise everything celebrities do or say. Take Swift and Kelce, for instance. People get genuinely angry when the television cameras pan to her during Chiefs’ games.

“Why do I have to keep seeing Taylor Swift during the football game? I hate her.”

Well, as we said before, celebrities bring eyes. You don’t think the people at the television networks understand this? It’s all they understand. And, anyway, why do you care so much about this?

Celebrities can bring the glitz and glamour to every event and place they go, and that’s kind of fun. Most of them achieved this status because of their rare gifts in the fields in which they shine, and that does make the world a better place.

But we have to “keep them out of the kitchen,” as my dad would say about distractions. If their comings and goings are actually impacting your day-to-day life or your emotional or mental wellbeing, well, it’s gone too far, don’t you think?

Besides, you guys are wasting your energy. My daughter tells me we need to focus more on Billie Eilish and less on Taylor Sw…

But I digress.