.jpg)
"Swift was locked in a feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West over the lyrics to "Famous," from West's album The Life of Pablo. She was on the verge of claiming the moral high ground when Kardashian dropped her ace in the hole: video footage of Swift seeming to approve-and even laugh over-the lyric "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.""
"It's 2025 now, Taylor Swift is the biggest pop star on the planet- Time's Person of the Year big, repeatedly breaking her own sales records with every new release big-and she (allegedly, seemingly) can't stop thinking about Charli XCX. "I heard you call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave," she sings on "Absolutely Romantic," one of the lowlights off her new album, The Life of a Showgirl."
Taylor Swift has repeatedly converted interpersonal conflicts into songs, beginning with 2010's "Mean" aimed at Bob Lefsetz after a harsh Grammy review. A 2016 feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over "Famous" and leaked footage shifted public perception and preceded the retaliatory single "Look What You Made Me Do." By 2025 Swift reached global superstardom while continuing to reference rivals in new music. Lyrics on The Life of a Showgirl name-check Charli XCX and offer derisive imagery that critics called petty and clumsy. Charli's marriage to George Daniel and her own song "Sympathy is a knife" complicate tangled personal and professional relationships in pop.
Read at Pitchfork
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]