her August 2024 cover story<\/a>.<\/p>\nCharli had dismissed fan theories that the track was about Swift: \u201cPeople are gonna think what they want to think,\u201d she said. \u201cThat 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
When the reporter asked if she thought of leaving out the giveaway breakup lyric, Charli simply replied, \u201cNo.\u201d The writer stayed quiet, and Charli called out what was happening: \u201cYou do the silence game. But I know that well\u2014where you go silent and want me to talk more. But I don\u2019t care about it being awkward. We\u2019ll sit in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vanity Fair<\/em>\u2019s writer Anna Peele noted that Charli was very warm during their interview, in contrast. Charli replied, \u201cI think I\u2019m just quite direct and blunt. I hate this phrase, but what you see is what you get with me. People think it\u2019s all some kind of performance, but it\u2019s not. I\u2019m not sat here talking to you being the way that I am onstage. But I think there is a correlation in that there\u2019s a messiness and a lack of perfection. It\u2019s the combination of talking about those things whilst also embracing them and really struggling with them is what makes me whole. And I think that it makes me honest. You can vouch for me, I hope.\u201d<\/p>\nPeele said she can\u2019t fact-check Charli\u2019s heart but believed the artist seemed sincere. Charli replied with a laugh, \u201cOr I\u2019m a psychopath.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also discussed the public\u2019s misconceptions about her, saying, \u201cIf enough people say that it is true on the internet, it becomes the truth.\u201d <\/p>\n
She added, \u201cYou can\u2019t [correct the record without making the rumor bigger]. Fact-checking is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charli said she reads all the online coverage about her and revealed that she is both scared and fascinated by how publications like the Daily Mail <\/em>decontextualize her words. \u201cI have a big mouth, and I say shit and sometimes it gets me in trouble,\u201d she admitted. \u201cYou seem lovely. But were you trying to get me on your side, so I would reveal more? I don\u2019t know.\u201d <\/p>\nGenerally, when viewing the online discourse about her, Charli mused, \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating to see how people ingest your personality and spit it back out\u2014what people cling on to, what people miss. I\u2019m always interested in, like, what does the casual viewer think? And they probably think I\u2019m a girl who parties and does drugs and is a little bit bitchy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nMore on Charli XCX and Taylor Swift<\/span> \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.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE RUNDOWN Charli XCX was asked to comment on Taylor Swift\u2019s rumored diss song about her, \u201cActually Romantic,\u201d and declined. The Brat singer instead revisited her response to questions about \u201cSympathy is a knife,\u201d her track believed to be about Swift. Charli also discussed online rumors about her and why \u201cfact-checking is dead.\u201d Less than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090660,"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":[25177],"tags":[274717,394230,285977,285684,394229],"class_list":["post-2090659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-770110c5-6730-477d-8ce7-79adc4965ce9","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-charli-xcx-got-asked-about-actually-romantic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/How-Charli-XCX-Responded-to-Taylor-Swift-Actually-Romantic-Question.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090659","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=2090659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090661,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090659\/revisions\/2090661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}