Taylor Swift Kayaknya Nyindir Charli XCX di Lagu Baru "Actually Romantic"? OMG!

Guys, Taylor Swift baru aja rilis album barunya, The Life of a Showgirl, dan di lagu "Actually Romantic," kayaknya dia nyindir Charli XCX, nih!

Jadi, ceritanya "beef" mereka ini mulai tahun lalu pas Charli XCX ngeluarin album Brat, yang ada lagu "Sympathy is a knife." Walaupun nggak nyebut nama Swift secara langsung (atau bisa dibilang bukan "diss track" banget), lagu itu nunjukkin kegelisahan Charli XCX sama cewek yang nggak disebut namanya. Dia nyanyi, "This one girl taps my insecurities" dan "Don’t want to see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show/ Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick." Nah, yang terakhir ini kayaknya nyindir Swift, soalnya suami Charli sekarang itu George Daniel dari The 1975, dan Swift pernah dirumorin pacaran sama vokalis 1975, Matty Healy, tahun 2023 lalu.

Sekarang, di lagu "Actually Romantic," Swift kayaknya bales, nih: "I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave / High-fived my ex and then you said you’re glad he ghosted me" itu lirik awal lagunya, yang kayaknya nyindir pertemanan Charli sama Healy. Swift lanjut nyanyi, "You wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face/ Some people might be offended/ But it’s actually sweet."

Dia terus nyanyi, nyamain hinaan itu sama perhatian positif: "Really got to hand it to you/ No man has ever loved me like you do/ It’s actually romantic," itu bagian chorusnya, yang kayaknya nyindir lagu Charli, "Everything is romantic." Swift bahkan lebih parah lagi pas dia nyanyi "It’s kind of making me wet." Okay! Dengerin lagunya di bawah ini.

Dengan gitar yang syncopated dan ceria, serta sedikit distorsi, lagu ini nuansanya alt-rock. Mirip sama power pop tahun 90-an ala Weezer, slacker rock, dan lagu-lagu energik Olivia Rodrigo, "Actually Romantic" jadi salah satu momen rock Swift yang paling menonjol belakangan ini.

Di versi "Track by Track" album The Life of a Showgirl buat Amazon Music, Swift bilang tentang "Actually Romantic": “It’s a song about realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn&rsquot know about. And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you’ve been living in their head rent-free and you had no idea.”

“It’s presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you but you take that and just accept it as love and you accept it as attention and affection, and how flattering that somebody has made you such a big part of their reality when you didn’t even think about this. It’s actually pretty romantic if you really think about it”

Swift sama Charli XCX nggak bisa dibilang musuh lama, atau mantan teman yang jadi musuhan. Charli pernah jadi pembuka konser Swift di "Reputation Tour" tahun 2018, tapi di wawancara sama Pitchfork tahun berikutnya, dia bilang pengalamannya "kind of felt like getting up and waving to 5-year-olds." Dia kemudian ngejelasin kalau maksudnya bukan gitu, dia tetep berterima kasih sama Swift atas kesempatannya dan bilang komentarnya itu karena beda fanbase aja.

Terus, Swift muji Charli musim panas lalu pas album Brat meledak. “I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensibilities since I first heard ‘Stay Away’ in 2011,” kata Swift ke New York Magazine dalam profil Charli. “Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn’t expect it to go, and she’s been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off.”

The Life of a Showgirl udah rilis di mana-mana, ya!