Charli xcx is “deep” into her follow-up to Brat amid her alleged “feud” with Taylor Swift.
Charli xcx is engaged on new music amid her ‘feud’ with Taylor Swift
Taylor seemingly took goal at Charli on the observe Truly Romantic from her newest LP The Lifetime of a Showgirl.
The pop megastar set tongues wagging that the track – the title of which is eyebrow-raisingly much like Charli’s Brat track Every thing is Romantic – is aimed on the 360 hitmaker.
Taylor dated The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, who’s the bandmate of Charli’s husband George Daniel, and followers imagine Truly Romantic takes photographs at her Popularity Tour help act.
Charli’s Brat track Sympathy is a Knife got here first and is rumoured to be a Taylor diss track, with the British star seemingly wishing that Taylor and Matty break up up on the road: “Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present / Fingers crossed behind my again / I hope they break up fast.”
And, many followers imagine Taylor has retaliated on the brand new track.
She sings on Truly Romantic: “I heard you name me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s obtained you courageous / Excessive-fived my ex and then you definitely stated you’re glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a track saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some folks is perhaps offended…”
Within the refrain, she fires off “…But it surely’s truly candy, on a regular basis you’ve spent on me / It’s truthfully wild, all the trouble you’ve put in / It’s truly romantic, I actually obtained handy it to you / No man has ever beloved me such as you do.”
Taylor opened up in regards to the track’s lyrics within the album’s movie The Official Launch Social gathering of a Showgirl, saying: ‘[It’s] a love letter to somebody who hates you …
“There will be this second the place it is unveiled to you, by issues that they do which can be very overt. And, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve simply began to be like, ‘Oh my God, you probably did a lot with this. It is flattering.
“That’s, wow, that may be very, very candy of you to consider me this a lot, even when it is detrimental. In my business, consideration is affection, and you have given me a complete lot of it.”
Truly Romantic options the lyrics: “I heard you name me Boring Barbie when the coke’s obtained you courageous / Excessive-fived my ex after which stated you’re glad he ghosted me.
“Wrote me a track saying it makes you sick to see my face/ Some folks is perhaps offended/ But it surely’s truly candy.”
On Sympathy is a Knife, Charli stated: “Don’t know if I’m spiralling/ One voice tells me that they snicker/ George says I’m simply paranoid/
“Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present/ Fingers crossed behind my again/ I hope they break up actual fast.”
Taylor gave additional clues about Truly Romantic’s topic in an audio track-by-track breakdown of the brand new album for Amazon Music, wherein she stated: “[It’s] a track about realising that another person has sort of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you simply didn’t learn about.
“And abruptly they begin doing an excessive amount of they usually begin letting you realize that really, you’ve been residing of their head rent-free and also you had no concept.”
Taylor has left followers guessing by not naming the individual the track is about.
Nonetheless, with the timing of Charli’s return to the studio, having shared an image of her producer on the mixing desk on her Instagram Story on Sunday (05.10.25), there may be each likelihood Charli may reply on a track.
Confirming Charli’s subsequent album is underway, one among her Brat producers, Finn Keane, lately advised MusicNews.com on the BMI London Awards: “We’re kinda deep in it now, and I feel it’s gonna be actually superb… It feels actually completely different and contemporary for the time being.”
