"I heard you call me boring Barbie when the coke's got you brave."
"It's honestly wild / All the effort you've put in / It's actually romantic / I really gotta hand it to you / No man has ever loved me like you do."
"That is, wow, that is very, very sweet of you to think about me this much, even if it's negative. In my industry, attention is affection, and you've given me a whole lot of it."
Taylor Swift's song Actually Romantic contains pointed lyrics that reference an enemy, including a line about being called a "boring Barbie" while the other person is emboldened by drugs and a line about high-fiving an ex after being ghosted. The chorus describes the target as investing extraordinary effort into wishing for Swift's downfall. Swift called the relationship one-sided and adversarial, noting that overt negative attention can feel like affection in the music industry. The release follows Charli XCX's BRAT, which spawned fan speculation; Charli denied creating explicit diss tracks and described her songs as reflections of her feelings and anxiety.
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