Taylor Swift is in her grown-woman era.
While Swift’s younger fanbase of tweens and teens is often celebrated, the reality is the pop superstar who came of age in the spotlight is now 35, engaged, and over-the-top in love.
She’s also - clearly - enjoying being loved by her professional football playing fiancé, Travis Kelce.
We know this, thanks to her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” The 12-track collection of breezy pop songs and narrative ballads features Swift sharing - sometimes oversharing - about her life and feelings.
There’s lots of speculation about what the songs on her 12th album are about, so let’s take a closer, track-by-track look:
“The Fate of Ophelia”
Leave it to Swift to take a Shakespearian tale of tragedy and shape into one of love and triumph.
In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Ophelia is unable to communicate and drowns, misunderstood.
With her song, Swift seems to point to Kelce saving her from a similar fate.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift in 2024. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
“And if you’d never come for me/ I might’ve drowned in the melancholy,” she sings.
“Elizabeth Taylor”
Extra points for the lyric,
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