It’s here. Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped like an asteroid at midnight, and already, we are picking up Easter eggs from every corner of her musical universe.
Ahead, all the biggest highlights.
She claps back at a nemesis in the most Taylor way.
It’s classic Swift to always surprise us. While many had thought that her song “Actually Romantic” would be about one of her lovers, it is actually about one of her nemeses.
Talking about a person who is obsessed with trying to bring her down, she sings, “It’s actually sweet, all the time you spent on me / It’s honestly wild all the effort you’ve put in / It’s actually romantic, I really gotta hand it to you / No man has ever loved me like you do.”
(Insiders point to Charli XCX as the muse behind the spicy track.)
Swift continues: “Hadn’t thought of you in a long time, but you keep sending me funny valentines / and I know it comes off vicious, but it’s precious, adorable / Like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse, that’s how much it hurts.”
Oh, how we missed petty Taylor.
She admits she wants kids with Travis Kelce.
In “Wishlist,” Swift fully embraces her desire to settle down and start a family with the football pro.
Talking about the entertainment industry, she sings, “They want to bright lights and Balenci[aga] shades / And a fat ass with a baby face,” then adding, “I just want you.”
“Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you / We tell the world to leave us the fuck alone and they do / Got me dreaming ’bout a driveway with a basketball hoop,” Swift continues. “I made wishes on all of the stars, God please bring me a best friend who I think is hot / Thought I had it once, twice, but I did not. You caught me off my guard / I hope I get what I want, ’cause I know what I want.”
She remembers a lost friend.
“Ruin the Friendship” brings another surprise. The heartbreaking song is not about a broken friendship at all, but rather about a loved one she lost, and how she now has to live with regret at not having showed them how much she loved them. Read more about it here.
She stands by a friend of hers who got cancelled—Blake Lively, perhaps?
Swift’s fiery track “Cancelled,” filled with revenge notes and karmic lyrics, takes us back to her Reputation years. In it, the pop singer talks about a friend of hers who got suddenly cancelled by society, or the entertainment industry, and is just now learning how she (Swift) felt during her many public feuds. The song is not accusatory, however, instead, Swift backs up her friend, saying she is not here to judge, but rather to support them. “Good thing I like my friends cancelled, I like them dripped in Gucci and in scandal,” she sings. “At least you know exactly who your friends are—we’re the ones with matching scars.”
While she doesn’t name any names, Swift’s longtime friend Blake Lively has recently been embroiled in a very public legal feud with her It Ends With Us costar Justin Baldoni, and somehow, Swift has gotten dragged into the case. While Swift and Lively have not been seen together since the legal battle began, this could be the pop star’s way of revealing she will always be there for her friend. Or not!
She nods to her engagement to Travis Kelce—before it even happened.
Swift predicted her entire love story with Kelce, and not one of us is surprised.
In the songs “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Honey,” “Wood,” and “Eldest Daughter,” she sings about her relationship with Kelce, and drops more than a few Easter eggs about their future together and even their engagement and upcoming wedding.
“All the right guys promised they’d stay,” she sings in “Elizabeth Taylor,” adding, “If you ever leave me high and dry, I’d cry my eyes… like Elizabeth Taylor / Tell me for real, do you think it’s forever?” In the track, she also references the saying “diamonds are forever,” and concludes: “Don’t you ever end up anything but mine.”
“Opalite” was inspired by Kelce’s birthstone, the opal, and in the song, Swift sings about how the skies have cleared and shine with an opal rainbow now that he is in her life. In “Honey,” she similarly talks about how whenever people referred to her as honey or sweetheart before, they didn’t mean it as a compliment, but with Kelce, it’s different. “You can call me honey if you want because I’m the one you want,” she sings. “You give it different meaning because you mean it when you talk.”
She then adds, dreaming of their future together, “I’m home, we can play house,” and adds, “What’s the plan? / You can be my forever night stand.”
As fans know, the NFL star proposed to Swift after she appeared on his New Heights podcast to announce the release of her album The Life of a Showgirl. By then, the album had long been completed, as the singer disclosed that she wrote it during her Eras Tour. But evidently, Swift knew exactly where this romance would go.
In “Eldest Daughter,” she promises to be forever faithful to those she loves. “I’m never gonna let you down, I’m never gonna leave you,“ she sings. “So many traitors, smooth operators / but I’m never gonna break that vow, I’m never gonna leave you now.”
And then there is this one telling lyric toward the end: “When I said I don’t believe in marriage, that was a lie.”
She talks about a diamond ring, and her sex life.
“Wood” might be the most romantic and steamy of the Kelce songs. A love-struck Swift sings that while she used to be superstitious, Kelce broke the “curse” on her and she now feels so sure about their love that she “ain’t got to knock on wood.”
“Seems to me that you and me we make our own luck,” she sings. “It’s you and me forever, dancing in the dark.”
Not only does she reference their sex life (“love was the key that opened my thighs”) but also makes it clear that she is ready to marry him. She sings, “I don’t need to catch the bouquet to know a hard rock is on the way.”
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