Taylor Swift has lost their 12th studio album, “Life on a showgirl“And the hottest topic among many online is the song”Actually romantic. “The seventh track on the new album has led to widespread speculation that Swift dissects the Pop star Charli XCX. But how did we get here?
The two singers seemed to be on healthy ground last fall when Swift praised Charlis songwriting in A New York Magazine Cover Story On Charli and her album, “Brat.” But now social media is convinced that Swift has its knives out for Charli on “actually romantic”, where Swift calls out a singer who based her like a “boring Barbie” while he is on cocaine. This singer also congratulated one of Swift’s ex-boyfriends when he haunted Swift. Internet now wonders: Is Swift and Charli Feuding?
Here is everything we know about their relationship so far.
Charli is a more open on The Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)
For all purposes, Charli and Swift were on major terms in 2018 when Swift announced Charli and Camila Cabello would be the opening documents on Reputation Stadium Tour. Charli performed at all dates for the tour from May to November of that year, for all more than 50 concerts, and she even went with Swift on stage with Cabello at Serval Stops to perform “shake it off” live together.
Charli Disses Swifties (2019)
The first potential sign of bad blood between Charli and Swift came in One August 2019 Pitchfork function, which was published online shortly before Swift released the album “Lover”. Charli took a shot at Swift’s fans, ubiquitously known as Swifties, when she told the publication: “I am really grateful that (Taylor) asked me on that tour. But as an artist it felt like I would come up on stage and wave to 5-year-olds.” Swifties were not so happy.
Taylor, Charli and 1975 (2023)
Taylor and Charli were in the same track years later when they both met members in 1975, the English pop rock band. Swift dated the card singer Matty Healy from May 2023 while he was on the time tour and shortly after her division to Joe Alwyn became public. Charli started meeting drummer George Daniel a year before, so of course Taylor and Charli began to cross roads much more in the summer of 2023. Swift’s throws with Healy claim only about two months, while Charli and Daniels got married this summer.
Charli releases “Sympathy is a knife” on her album “Brat” (summer 2024)
Charli dropped the album “Brat” in June 2024 and captured pop culture’s Zeitgeist who several of the songs thought that the singer became brutally honest about her relationship with the music industry and to other female pop stars (see Lorde and “Girl so confusing.”) Of the time “Brat” was released, Swift’s relationship to Helaty Har Long Was Long War HEALY WAS A LONG WE BE LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG WAS LONG WAS LONG WAS LONG WANTS. Summer edition.
A song from “Brat” is called “sympathy is a knife” and is generally speculated to be about Swift, but the lyrics did not dissect the one that Charli wrote about. Instead, the song finds that Charli is self -critical of how to be in a very famous singer (ie Swift) had negative effects on her mental health. As Charli sings: “This girl loses my insecurities / Don’t know if it’s real or if I spiral … I couldn’t even be her if I tried / I’m the opposite, I’m on the other side.” If the song was about Swift, it was about criticizing Charli’s own delusions and uncertainty and not Swift himself.
Swift praises Charlis songwriting (autumn 2024)
Charlis Pressblitz for “Brat” reached for the fall when she Graced the cover of New York Magazine. The story published on October 11, 2024 and included a quote from Swift which was very free for the “Brat” singer: “I have been blown away by Charli’s melodic feelings because I first heard” stay away “in 2011. Her writing is surreal and inventive, always take a song to places you would not always take it, and she had to be, and she has been the case that Expect it to go, and she has been to make it consistent for a decreal invention.
And yet signs of potentially bad blood between the two began to be called online. Matty Healy announced her commitment to modeling Gabbiette in June 2024, with Charli who told New York Magazine: “I always silent thought they would be a good couple.” And that day Swift shared a positive review of “The tortured Poets Department” in April, Charli quoted it with the comment: “Everyone’s hype for the sweat tour!” Was Charli just playful or was a problem with brewing between the two pop stars? Speculation on social media went exaggeration.
Swift dances to Charli at Grammy Awards (Winter 2025)
Although there was some beef between Swift and Charli to close in 2024, you would not know by watching the 2025 Grammy Awards. The ceremony, which was held on February 2, contained a high -energy performance from Charli that Swift was clearly a fan of considering how scary Swift and Margaret Qualey (who introduced Charli at Amount’s Hitmaker the event last year) Saw dance in the crowd while drinking champagne. The clip of Swift swung out to Charli went viral over different social media platforms. Both Swift and Charli were nominated for this year’s album at Grammys, although Beyonce took home the prize for “Cowboy Carter.”
Swift releases “actually romantic” on her album “The Life of a Showgirl” (autumn 2025)
If Charli only suggested on a potential beef with Swift 2024, many now believe that a feud between the two has been confirmed by Swift’s song “actually romantic”, which mentions who Swift talks about “wrote me a song that says it makes you sick to see my face.” The lyric alone has convinced many that Swift obviously writes about Charli and “Sympathy is a knife.”
The song Starts with the texts: “I heard that you call me” boring barbie “when the cook has you brave / high fived my ex and then you said you are glad he haunted me / wrote a song that says it makes you sick to see my face.” But then Swift reveals the entire performance of the song, which is how flattering and even awakens it is to hear about someone who thinks of you constantly (even for negative reasons).
Swift explained the song in a track-by-track version of the album streaming on Amazon Music (via AND! Beginner), “” “Really romantic” is a song about realizing that someone else has had a one -sided opponent relationship with you that you didn’t know about. And suddenly they are starting to do too much, and they start to let you know that you have actually lived in their head rent for free and you had no idea. ”
“It presents itself as those who oppose or have problems with you, but take it and you just accept it as love,” added Swift. “You only accept it as attention and affection. How flattering that someone has made you such a big part of their reality and you didn’t even think about this. It is actually quite romantic if you really think about it.”
