Taylor Swift finally spoke out about her sharp as knife lyrics on the song, Actually Romantic, which fans believe to be about Charli XCX.
The 35-year-old pop superstar explained the song in an Amazon Music introduction for the song, on Friday, October 3.
The 14-time-Grammy winner said the song is “about realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn’t know about,” which appears to be her relationship with the 360 hitmaker.
“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,” the Showgirl songstress continued.
However, Swift described her interpretation of the situation as, “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.”
According to Swifties, the song is a direct response to Charli XCX’s Sympathy Is a Knife which is believed to be about the Eras Tour performer.
The title, Actually Romantic, also seems to be a dig at the BRAT songsress’ song, Everything Is Romantic.