Taylor Swift’s song “Wood” causes laughter – Travis Kelce reacts with pride and shame in the podcast. Why the track is more than just a joke.
Travis Kelce discusses Taylor Swift’s ambiguous song “Wood” in the podcast. According to the professional athlete, the song was originally created from a completely harmless idea. But those weren’t his only words…
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Kelce reacts coyly to Swift’s double entendre
On the new Wednesday, October 8 episode of the New Heights podcast – hosted by Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce – Swift’s fiancé and the retired American football player discussed Taylor Swift’s new LP THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL. Swift released her 12th studio album on October 3, so the topic was still fresh for the two. One of the most discussed songs on the record is “Wood”, an ambiguous track that her partner also wanted to comment on.
Swift’s shoutout to “New Heights”
The artist gave her partner’s podcast a shoutout with the line “New Heights of manhood” – Swift appeared on a previous episode of the podcast to announce her album. The lyrics of the song in question are: “Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs”. And a little later in the track it says: “The curse on me was broken by your magic wand.”
“I love any song where she mentions me like that.”
When asked by his brother about the lyrics in “Wood,” Kelce reacted proudly and at the same time a little embarrassed. It is a “great song”. He loves Swift and every song in which he is mentioned “in that way”. Jason Kelce was more explicit on the podcast, suggesting that parts of the song could refer to the professional athlete’s good track. Travis Kelce jokingly countered, “I don’t think you understand the song.”
Swift originally wanted to write a “timeless” track about “superstition.”
Swift spoke about the origins of “Wood” in an interview with Jimmy Fallon. The singer told her two Swedish producers, Max Martin and Shellback, that she wanted to write a song that was “reminiscent of old times” and addressed various notions of “superstition.”
“I don’t know where we took a wrong turn,” the songwriter recalled, but stressed that she loves the track in its final version. THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL is her happiest album to date, in which she tried herself out and her humorous side came to the fore, Swift explained in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.