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\u201cActually Romantic\u201d is a \u201890s-tinged pop-rock song that takes aim at another woman, seemingly a fellow musician, who keeps talking about Taylor so much behind her back that it comes off obsessively romantic (\u201cNo man has ever loved me like you do\u2026\u201d). The song is clearly a diss track, and though it can\u2019t be confirmed, many fans online believe it\u2019s about Charli XCX, who opened for Taylor on her Reputation Stadium Tour in 2018.<\/p>\n
For one, \u201cActually Romantic\u201d makes it clear the subject is a singer-songwriter, with Taylor singing, \u201cWrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face.\u201d Some speculate that line is a reference to Charli\u2019s song \u201cSympathy Is a Knife\u201d\u2014a track about a fellow successful woman in the music industry who stokes Charli\u2019s insecurities, whom some fans believe might be Taylor. \u201cDon’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show\/Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick,\u201d Charli sings on the song from 2024.<\/p>\n
Some background: In 2023, Swift publicly dated The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, who is bandmates with Charli\u2019s now-husband George Daniel, meaning it\u2019s very likely the two pop stars crossed paths backstage at The 1975 concerts. \u201cI heard you call me \u2018Boring Barbie\u2019 when the coke\u2019s got you brave\/High-fived my ex and then you said you\u2019re glad he ghosted me,\u201d Swift sings, seemingly specifically nodding to Healy, who, according to her The Tortured Poets Department song \u201cThe Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,\u201d ghosted and avoided her after their breakup.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the song title \u201cActually Romantic\u201d is also very similar to the title of Brat track “Everything is Romantic” and to Charli\u2019s 2013 debut album, True Romance. Still, it\u2019s all speculation. Swift has publicly feuded with other musicians and celebrities over the years\u2014some resolved, some still ongoing \u2014 and Swift did speak highly of Charli<\/a>‘s work ethic in a Vulture feature about the Brat singer just last year, saying she was \u201cblown away\u201d by Charli\u2019s talent.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.teenvogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cActually Romantic\u201d is a \u201890s-tinged pop-rock song that takes aim at another woman, seemingly a fellow musician, who keeps talking about Taylor so much behind her back that it comes off obsessively romantic (\u201cNo man has ever loved me like you do\u2026\u201d). The song is clearly a diss track, and though it can\u2019t be confirmed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2066535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21800,23084],"class_list":["post-2066534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Taylor-Swift-The-Life-of-a-Showgirl-Lyrics-Hidden-Meanings.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066536,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066534\/revisions\/2066536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}8. \u201cWi$h Li$t\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n