{"id":2067017,"date":"2025-10-03T16:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2067017"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:39:33","slug":"fans-think-taylor-swift-dissed-charli-xcx-in-new-song-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fans-think-taylor-swift-dissed-charli-xcx-in-new-song-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans think Taylor Swift dissed Charli XCX in new song\u2014here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/gay-music\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-gaylor-fans-reaction-explained\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> isn\u2019t afraid to stand toe-to-toe with her detractors, exemplified in her spat with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/gay-tv-shows\/cooper-koch-kim-kardashian-monsters-menendez-prison-visit\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Kardashian<\/a>, which resulted in the song \u201cthanK you aIMee\u201d off her last album, <em><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/em>. Now, the singer seems to have her sights set on a new target after releasing her 12th studio album, <em><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/gay-music\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-explained\" target=\"_blank\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a><\/em><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This new album features a song called \u201cActually Romantic,\u201d which appears to be a diss track aimed at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/sir-ian-mckellen-loves-charli-xcx-charlie-puth\" target=\"_blank\">Charli xcx<\/a>. The title seems to be a reference to the British pop star\u2019s song, \u201cEverything is romantic,\u201d off of her wildly successful album, <em><em>brat<\/em><\/em>. But ever since Charli\u2019s album came out last year, listeners surmised that her song, \u201csympathy is a knife,\u201d seemed to be about Swift given the connections they shared through the band, The 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d3322125de812b5e799ac62fd892f3e2\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Actually Romantic (Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShsfUTynzQU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On this new song, there are some lyrics that may point to a possible feud. \u201cI heard you call me \u2018Boring Barbie\u2019 when the coke\u2019s got you brave,\u201d Swift sings, which feels like a direct reference to the <em><em>brat <\/em><\/em>singer\u2019s own admission to using drugs on songs like \u201c365.\u201d Swift goes on to say, \u201cHigh-fived my ex and then said you\u2019re glad he ghosted me, wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face. Some people might be offended, but it\u2019s actually sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/albums\/B0FTL6CD2V\" target=\"_blank\">track-by-track breakdown of her new album for Amazon Music<\/a>, Swift said the song is about \u201crealizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn\u2019t know about. And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you\u2019ve been living in their head rent-free and you had no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cIt\u2019s presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you but you take that and just accept it as love and you accept it as attention and affection, and how flattering that somebody has made you such a big part of their reality when you didn\u2019t even think about this. It\u2019s actually pretty romantic if you really think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the two singers both dated members of The 1975, Swift was with frontman Matty Healy while Charli dated (and is now married to) George Daniel. On \u201csympathy is a knife,\u201d Charli sings, \u201cDon\u2019t know if I\u2019m spiraling \/ One voice tells me that they laugh \/ George says I\u2019m just paranoid \/ Don\u2019t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend\u2019s show \/ Fingers crossed behind my back \/ I hope they break up real quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"fae9e371e56679f50d0cd278134cf0f8\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx - Sympathy is a knife (official lyric video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9s4Ckt-aKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Charli hasn\u2019t said anything about the song just yet, but many of her fans are upset with Swift because they felt it was hypocritical to release a diss like this after Swift praised Charli\u2019s songwriting in a profile that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/charli-xcx-interview-brat-summer-fall-kamala-harris.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em><em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/em><\/u><u> wrote<\/u><\/a> on the <em><em>brat <\/em><\/em>singer last year. \u201cI\u2019ve been blown away by Charli\u2019s melodic sensibilities since I first heard \u2018Stay Away\u2019 in 2011. Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn\u2019t expect it to go, and she\u2019s been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know: At the height of <em>brat<\/em>, Charli uploaded a video to TikTok confirming that the only diss track on the album was \u201cVon Dutch\u201d and that the other songs are about how difficult it is to be a female pop star in a music industry that is obsessed with pitting women against each other.<\/p>\n<p>When asked who was the inspiration behind the talked about track, Charli denied the feud rumors and said, \u201cPeople are gonna think what they want to think. That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don\u2019t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source of their tension can also be pointed to an instance that occurred when Charli was achieving mainstream success for the first time last year with the release of <em><em>brat<\/em><\/em> and Swift fought to maintain it during the roll out of <em><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/em>. After the British pop star released the deluxe version of <em><em>brat <\/em><\/em>featuring three new songs, \u201cHello Goodbye,\u201d \u201cGuess,\u201d and \u201cSpring Breakers,\u201d Swift released a UK-exclusive digital release of her album with unreleased live recordings, which seemed to have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-kept-charli-xcx-from-number-one-with-new-uk-only-editions-of-the-tortured-poets-department-3766185\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>blocked Charli from reaching number one<\/u><\/a> on the UK charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"65dafda7e8f0052476710b001d6eb59a\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift brings bread &amp; a wedding invite to Greg James | The Life of a Showgirl Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cqw8fZhggbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This theory doesn\u2019t hold as much water because <em><em>brat <\/em><\/em>was still a mega success on its own with or without chart placements and so was Swift&#8217;s (to no one&#8217;s surprise) after she embarked on the record-breaking Eras Tour. She clarified in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=8&amp;v=Cqw8fZhggbQ&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nme.com%2F&amp;embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nme.com&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMjg2NjY\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with BBC Radio 1<\/a> today that she has no intention of going on tour for a while. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.out.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift isn\u2019t afraid to stand toe-to-toe with her detractors, exemplified in her spat with Kim Kardashian, which resulted in the song \u201cthanK you aIMee\u201d off her last album, The Tortured Poets Department. 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