Almost two decades into her career, Taylor Swift has proven time and again that she knows how to write a good love song.
So when it turned out that the track Actually Romantic from her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, is anything but what the title suggests, it came as a surprise to many listeners.
“Like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse / That's how much it hurts,” Swift sings, over an arrangement of electric guitars and drums.
Critics and fans believe the song is a diss track aimed at fellow pop star Charli XCX, best known for her smash 2024 album Brat.
On The Life of a Showgirl (Track by Track Version), Swift explains the song is about “realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you … and you just accepting it as love.”
WATCH | Lyric video for Actually Romantic by Taylor Swift (explicit):
As people continue to pore over Swift’s songs for “Easter eggs” — or clues she leaves in her music for fans to decode — some industry observers are wondering what this biting track from one of the world's most influential artists sa
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