Yo I heard that you are called 'Borbie Borida' when the coca -Cola has you brave “. As for the open, the first line of” Romantic “by Taylor Swift, and the most controversial song of his new album The life of a showgirlIt is certainly shocking. If that was not enough, Swift then enroll against this unidentified rival, reprimanding them for having “the tight to my ex” and affirming that he is “happy that he has ghost me”, before referring to a certain song “saying that he gets sick to see my face.”
In case you do not have so much heat in the interpretation of finely veiled pop cultural references, it is quite likely that Swift will alluded to Charli XCX, his only time Reputation Tour support law. In Charli's song “Sympathy is a knife”, appeared in his album 2024 golf clubThe musician sings about how “this girl takes advantage of my insecurities” and how “she wants to see her behind the stage in my boyfriend's show.” It has been widely assumed since “a girl” was in fact Taylor, who came out briefly in the 1975 leader Matty Healy; Meanwhile, Charli recently married the band drummer, George Daniel.
All small lyrical signs, then, seem to add, although none of the women has appointed the other as the object of their anger. Last year, Charli said that “people are going to think what they want to think” about “sympathy …”, but the song is really “about me, my feelings and my anxiety.” Meanwhile, Taylor says that the song of his album is “about realizing that someone else has had a unilateral and adverse relationship with you who did not know”, and then choose to interpret those feelings as a form of “attention and affection.”
It is not the first time that any of the stars apparently points to another female artist. “Blood” of Swift, from his 2014 album 1989He was aimed at a “direct enemy” that supposedly “tried to hire a group of people from under me”; That “enemy” was widely understood as Katy Perry, although the couple was publicly compensated for a few years later. And another golf club The track, “Girl, So Confusing,” saw Charli download the complexities and paranoia of his Lorde's relationship with Lorde.
Perhaps it is revealing that, only a few hours after the release of the album, “Actually romantic” (with his quite flagrant wink to the title of another song by Charli, “Everything is romantic”) is the song that has attracted the greatest attention, by far, to the sea of a letter. Dedicated to exalting the wonders of Taylor's fiance, the NFL star, Travis Kelce, established in Sonics not so memorable. Taylor in love? Of course, whatever, happy for you. Does Taylor leave and direct his irritation to one of his pop partners? That is much more intriguing.
The female rivalry is, and it has always been, a source of fascination and a fertile theme for artists. Of course, calling others is not the only reserve of music women (you just have to take a look at the world of rap to see that male artists have the same probability of converting perceived disagreements into lyrical grenades).
But perhaps there is something in its slightly taboo nature that makes a female dispute, especially those that have emerged from a past friendship, difficult to separate. We know that rivalries are destined to be the result of a patriarchy that faces each other. We know that we are destined to celebrate the victories of others and get up mutually, briefly borrow the language of an millenary pink Instagram infographic. But it is not always as simple as that.
There is also a not so insignificant possibility that this DISS track is at least partly a calculated movement so that people talk about the album
That is why “sympathy is a knife” seemed to hit the listeners golf clubLaunch: He felt genuinely vulnerable, an exploration of the deepest insecurities of an artist typically of bravuconería. It is not so much about the track and a kind of transcription of auto laceration therapy. Taylor's new offer is less turned off, more burning (“like a toy chihuahua that bricks me from a small bag / that's how much it hurts” is a particularly wild letter if this is About Charli, which 5 feet 3 artist, no matter how beautiful it may be, who wants to be compared to a miniature dog Yappy for an imposing glamazon?). But his own existence shows that even the most commented artist in the world is not immune to the pain of feeling like a former friend has turned against you. Although she claims to take the moral terrain, you cannot avoid thinking that if she really did not feel upset, this song could have remained in its application of notes.
Taking into account how expert in the Taylor operator has proven to be over the years, there is also a not so insignificant possibility that this disc track is at least partly a calculated movement so that people speak on the album, instead of real evidence of a real feeling. It worked very well for Charli, after all. Part of the appeal of its previous launch, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENTLen in the possibility of unchecking exactly which of their past or present love interests could have inspired each letter. Now, its romantic life is in a much more stable trajectory, so the rivalries between industries provide more scandalous raw material.
Will Taylor and Charli ever solve it in Remix, as he did with Lorde? It seems unlikely but not impossible. But we could have to wait for Charli's next album to discover it.
