Taylor Swift’s recent album “The Life Of A Showgirl” takes a direct dig at Swift’s rumoured foe Charli XCX. – is what fans say! This comes after fans speculated that Charli’s track “Sympathy Is a Knife”, was hinted at Taylor, last year.
“I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the c#ke’s got you brave,” goes a line from Taylor Swift’s just-released “Actually Romantic”. No wonder fans have taken this as a hint to Charli XCX‘s alleged drug use. The track’s lyrics got leaked ahead of the album’s October 3rd release, raising even more questions among fans.
If we come to think of it, Charli has hinted at drug use in some songs as well. “Should we do a little key? Should we have a little line?” goes a line from her huge hit “365” from the album “Brat”.
Swifties took to Instagram and X to speculate what the songwriter is hinting at, with her album, “Actually Romantic”, even more so because the title itself seems to take a dig at Charlie’s album “Everything Is Romantic”. These hints are enough to convince fans that “The Life Of a Showgirl” album disses Charli.
Taylor Swift and Charli XCX have had some history together in the past, right from Swift’s Reputation tour in 2018, where they performed “Shake it Off” together. Things might have started going sour after Charlie started dating Swift’s ex, The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy. Charlie finally married George Daniel, the drummer from Healy’s band earlier this year.
Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift: Past Speculations
2024 saw a similar controversy. Fans kept wondering whether Charli’s words from her then-released “Sympathy Is a Knife” hinted at Swift. “This one girl taps my insecurities / Don’t know if it’s real or if I’m spiraling,” went the lyrics.
Charli took to TikTok to clear the confusion:
“I’m seeing online that some people think there are diss tracks on ‘Brat’ and I just wanted to come on here and clarify that there aren’t — apart from maybe ‘Von Dutch,’ which kind of is — but the other tracks in question aren’t diss tracks,” she said. Adding her opinion about the complications of being an artist, more so a female artist. The way they are “pitted against” their peers, “but also expected to be best friends with every single person, constantly.”
Fans had since been speculating who ‘Von Dutch’ was dissing. Some were saying it was taking a dig at specific pop stars who try to appear ‘naughtier’, while others resorted to name-calling. As for Swift, she had always admired Charli’s album “Brat” publicly.
“I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensibilities since I first heard ‘Stay Away’ in 2011,” the “Bad Blood” singer had commented.
“Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn’t expect it to go, and she’s been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off.”
Swift even danced to Charli’s performance with a champagne bottle at the Grammys.
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