October 3, 2025 - The lyrics have Swift looking back on a school crush who her real- life bestie, Abigail Anderson, calls to let her know has passed away. The song is a nostalgic reflection on what could have been ...

July 7, 2025 - Taylor Swift has seemingly dissed Charli xcx on her new album.

October 3, 2025 - On “Actually Romantic,” the seventh track from Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, the biggest pop star in the world seemingly takes a dig at none other than Charli XCX.

October 3, 2025 - Swift never acknowledged “Sympathy Is a Knife,” but there may be reason to now believe she was not happy about it, or, at least, XCX’s behavior regarding her and Healy’s relationship. On Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl,” there are lyrics in the album’s seventh track, titled “Actually Romantic,” which allude to XCX.

October 3, 2025 - Swift sings about a person who, under the influence of cocaine, calls her “boring Barbie” behind her back. (Charli XCX released a special edition vinyl of “Brat” filled with white powder.) “High-fived my ex and then you said you’re glad he ghosted me,” Ms.

October 3, 2025 - Charli dismissed that theory in an interview with New York Magazine published in August 2024, saying, “People are going to think what they want to think. That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don’t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt.” · Swift, who was writing The Life of a Showgirl at that time, seemed to hear about the speculation.

October 8, 2025 - Charli XCX may be focused on her acting career right now, but Brat is forever. Thanks to a new trailer for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Wuthering Heights big-screen adaptation, as well as a diss on Taylor Swift’s new Life of a Showgirl album believed by fans to be directed towards Charli, tracks from the British pop star’s Grammy-winning opus have seen renewed traction on streaming.

October 10, 2025 - So when it turned out that the track Actually Romantic from her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, is anything but what the title suggests, it came as a surprise to many listeners.

October 3, 2025 - The clues are aplenty on the internet that the song might be about Charli XCX or Nicky Minaj. Taylor and Nicki had mini feud in 2015 after the VMAs but that was sorted all too quickly.

October 14, 2025 - Charli XCX appeared to make a dig at Taylor Swift in a new interview with Vanity Fair. The former tour mates appear to be at the centre of showbiz's most prominent and growing feud, thanks to pointed lyrics featuring in Taylor's new album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

October 9, 2025 - In her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, the track “Actually Romantic” has attracted a lot of attention, particularly the lyrics: “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave.” Later adding, ...

October 14, 2025 - The music industry is currently buzzing over Taylor Swift’s release of The Life of a Showgirl as her album has already “broken the first-week, equivalent-unit sales record long held by Adele for her 2015 album 25, making The Life of a Showgirl the fastest-selling-and-streaming album of the modern era,” Billboard reported, via a Pitchfork story. But fans are also decoding Swift’s lyrics of “Actually Romantic,” a song on the album that listeners are decoding to see if the singer is dissing fellow pop star Charli XCX, according to PinkNews,a possible reaction to Charli XCX’s “Everything is Romantic.”

October 6, 2025 - Charli XCX has subtly responded to Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl track, “Actually Romantic,” which was rumored to be about the British singer.

October 4, 2025 - Many online argued the track couldn’t be a diss (or else, is a misdirected diss), since XCX’s song wasn’t necessarily negative or critical, but was instead self-focused. It’s unclear whether either artist will address the song but that won’t stop the internet from speculating. “The Life of a Showgirl,” out Oct.