Taylor Swift has launched her new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, and on the monitor “Really Romantic,” she seemingly takes purpose at Charli XCX.
The origins of their obvious “beef” started final 12 months when Charli XCX launched her acclaimed album Brat, which featured the track “Sympathy is a knife.” Whereas not explicitly referencing Swift (or actually a “diss monitor,” at that), the track captures Charli XCX expressing her anxiousness in the direction of an unnamed girl, singing “This one lady faucets my insecurities” and later “Don’t need to see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present/ Fingers crossed behind my again, I hope they break up fast.” The latter line significantly indicators a reference to Swift: Charli’s now-husband is The 1975’s George Daniel, and Swift and 1975 singer Matty Healy had been rumored to be relationship again in 2023.
Now, on “Really Romantic,” Swift has seemingly responded: “I heard you name me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s bought you courageous / Excessive-fived my ex and then you definitely stated you’re glad he ghosted me” go the primary traces of the track, probably referencing Charli and Healy’s friendship with “high-fived my ex.” Swift continues, singing “You wrote me a track saying it makes you sick to see my face/ Some individuals may be offended/ But it surely’s really candy.”
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She proceeds, likening the perceived slander to constructive consideration: “Actually bought handy it to you/ No man has ever beloved me such as you do/ It’s really romantic,” goes the refrain, with the latter line and title a possible reference to Charli’s Brat monitor “The whole lot is romantic.” Swift even takes it to a complete new stage when she busts out the road “It’s form of making me moist.” Okay! Hearken to the monitor under.
Swift and Charli XCX aren’t precisely longtime rivals, nor former mates turned bitter. Charli opened for Swift on the 2018 “Popularity Tour,” however in a Pitchfork interview the next 12 months admitted the expertise “form of felt like getting up and waving to 5-year-olds.” She later clarified that comment, expressing gratitude to Swift for the chance and attributing her remark to the mismatch between their fanbases.
The Lifetime of a Showgirl is out all over the place now. Decide up a vinyl copy right here.
