Recommendations of the Editorial team
In recent days it has felt like the pop world has transformed into Victorian England. There is another way to describe the indignation with which the world responded to Taylor Swift’s alleged hymn to her fiancé Travis Kelce’s body on her new album ““The Life of a Showgirl” reacted, hardly explained.
“Wood” is the song about the magic wand that broke her curse and took masculinity to new heights. (“New Heights” is the name of the podcast by Travis Kelce and his brother Jason). Here, Swift sings to an irresistible Jackson 5 groove: “Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs.”
At this point, eager Swiftologists noticed that this song isn’t just… not about sequoia trees. But also not about love instruments. It’s about a tweet from X user Summer. She makes herself out to be a big fan of the singer Ariana Grande, who likes to talk about sexual things in her songs explicit will make fun of the Swifties’ prudery on April 5, 2021.
She posted a GIF that showed American actress Viola Davis crying. Below she wrote that this is the Swiftie reaction when Ariana sings about sex and that not in metaphors like “He stuck his long wood into my redwood forest and let his sap ferment my roots.”
So the song is a really funny response to an old tweet. And the reaction of many Swift fans seems to confirm that they like it a little less clearly. ““The Life of a Showgirl” is the bright, humorous yang to the angry and dark “Reputation”. On both albums, Swift holds up a mirror to the pop world (of which she is, of course, a part).