"She staged the most successful concert tour of all time, she's engaged to the captain of the football team, and earlier this week, she became the first female artist to sell over 100 million albums. But in the middle of the celebration-or right at the beginning of Side 2, should we be listening on one of the album's innumerable vinyl variants-Swift hits pause on the party to take a swipe at an unidentified hater who bears a strong resemblance to fellow pop star Charli XCX."
""I heard you call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave," Swift begins, "high-fived my ex and said you're glad he ghosted me." The ex in question, the thinking goes, would be the 1975's Matty Healy, a bandmate of Charli's husband, George Daniel,"
Taylor Swift reunited with Max Martin and Shellback for The Life of a Showgirl, an exuberant pop album released amid career peaks. She staged the most successful concert tour ever, became engaged to a college football captain, and became the first female artist to sell over 100 million albums. The album pauses its celebratory mood in "Actually Romantic," where leaked lyrics suggest a swipe at an unidentified hater resembling Charli XCX. The lyrics mention being called "Boring Barbie" and a connection to an ex, presumed to be Matty Healy. "Actually Romantic" appears partly to respond to Charli's "Sympathy Is a Knife," a confession about insecurity and self-harm that Charli says concerns her own feelings and anxiety.
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