{"id":2074989,"date":"2025-10-07T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2074989"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:44:19","slug":"taylor-swift-insists-racy-new-song-wood-started-out-in-a-very-innocent-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-insists-racy-new-song-wood-started-out-in-a-very-innocent-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift insists racy new song \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cstarted out in a very innocent place\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has insisted her racy new song \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cstarted out in a very innocent place\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review-3897387\">Taylor Swift \u2013 \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019 review: magical when the songwriter just lets herself be<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The singer has just released her twelfth studio album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review-3897387\">The Life Of A Showgirl<\/a>\u2018, which contains the disco-inspired \u2018Wood\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Though Swift has said she believes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-wood-double-entendres-travis-kelce-1235441125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her mother thinks the song is about popular superstitions<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review-3897387\">\u00a0<em>NME <\/em>observed in our own review<\/a> that \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cwinks at her fianc\u00e9\u2019s prowess both in the bedroom and as a podcaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It includes suggestive lyrics referencing Kelce\u2019s podcast \u2018New Heights\u2019, as Swift sings: \u201c<em>Seems to me that you and me, we make our own luck \/ New heights of manhood, I ain\u2019t gotta knock on wood<\/em>.\u201d You can check out all Easter eggs and references in \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/these-are-the-easter-eggs-in-taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-3897057\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/series\/the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> breaking down the album, Swift has said that the song started when she told producers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/max-martin\">Max Martin<\/a> and Shellback: \u201cI wanna do a throwback, timeless-sounding song, and I have this idea of \u2018I ain\u2019t gotta knock on wood\u2019, and it would be all susperstitions\u2026 it really started out in a very innocent place!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, man,\u201d Swift continued. \u201cI got in there, we started vibing and I don\u2019t know how we got here, but I love the song so much.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift Breaks Down The Life of a Showgirl&#039;s &quot;Wood,&quot; &quot;Father Figure&quot; and &quot;The Fate of Ophelia&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-AlKKUtElzA?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><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review-3897387\">In our review<\/a>, we wrote that \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019 was \u201cmagical when the songwriter just lets herself be\u201d. \u201cFor the first time,\u201d we added, \u201c\u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019 sees Swift not catalysed into artistic growth by love, but merely comfortably secured by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer has denied <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-responds-to-rumours-that-shell-quit-music-after-getting-married-its-a-shockingly-offensive-thing-to-say-3897414\">she will quit music upon getting married<\/a> to her fianc\u00e9e Travis Kelce, playfully adding that it was \u201cshockingly offensive\u201d to suggest so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Scott Mills on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002kxyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>BBC Radio 2,<\/em><\/a> she said: \u201cI\u2019m really right now just like really stoked about the idea that I get to marry this person. I\u2019m gonna think about that and then I\u2019m gonna put out this album and then I\u2019m gonna think about other things after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, the singer has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-thinks-of-eras-tour-every-day-but-has-no-itch-to-tour-again-soon-3896943\">ruled out touring<\/a> off the back of her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-brings-in-record-breaking-2billion-3820379\">record-breaking Eras tour<\/a>, adding: \u201cI\u2019m gonna be really honest with you. I am so tired, like when I think about doing it again. Because I would want to do it really well again, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has also turned down playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-too-locked-in-during-super-bowl-to-play-halftime-show-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-travis-3897698\">denying to Fallon that the rejection was over footage rights<\/a>. \u201cThis has nothing to do with Travis,\u201d Swift reasoned. \u201cHe would love for me to do it, but I\u2019m just too locked in.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift wins Best Solo Act In The World at the NME Awards 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gR59Z5eOhk?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>Elsewhere, Taylor Swift has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-on-why-one-of-her-absolute-favourite-people-ed-sheeran-found-out-about-her-engagement-on-instagram-3897665\">shared why \u201cone of her absolute favourite people\u201d Ed Sheeran found out about her engagement on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\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.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has insisted her racy new song \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cstarted out in a very innocent place\u201d. 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