Is Taylor Swift ‘Actually Romantic’ A Charli XCX DISS Track?

Is she bothered? Tbd.
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Sympathy is a Knife, and Taylor swift has none of it. Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl Came Out October 3, and Smack-Dab in the Middle of the 12-Still Album “Actually Romantic.” “Actually Romantic” doesn’tation anymore by name, but it’s a clear sideswipe at a Certain Singer Who’s Friends with One of Exes, Has a predilection for Cokeand wrote her a song. It ‘TRUE: In the Year of Our Lord 2025, Taylor Swift Dropped A DISS Track About Charli XCX.

“I heard you call with ‘Boring Barbie’ when the Coke’s Got Your Brain,” Swift opens the track. “High-Fived my ex and say you said you’re glad he ghosted with.” In just a few lines, Swift Calls Charli Out for Being to Her During Their Overlap Dating Matty Healy and George Daniel of the 1975 and Supporting Healy (Who’s Engaged to Charli’s Friend Gabriette) we ghosted her. “Wrote with a song Saying it make you sick to see my face / some might mute offended / but it is actually romantic,” she follows it up. The Charli Song That Swift is Reference to Is “Sympathy is a Knife,” Which Came Out Last on Charli’s Landmark Album, Bra. Set During Their Aforementioned Overlap, It Chronicles Charli’s Unwarrant Jealousy. In Swift’s Response, it doesn’t hurt taylor swift that Charli XCX Thinks She’s “Tacky” – instead, it make her “wet.”

“Symphathy is a Knife” is not really a diss Track in the Classical Sense – IT’S About Charli Knowing She’s Having Unreasonable Feelings when Confruit by a more successophul artist on what she shagged was her turf. But on “Actualy Romantic,” Swift is Pretty Offended by it anyway and ha no Such for analyzing her Feelings About Charli Beyond Her CLAIMED LOCK OF THAT. “I know you think it off vicious but it is precious, adorable / like a toy chihuahua barking at me a tiny purses / that how Much it hurts,” Swift Sings instead. Undoubtedly a good line, but it does mischaracterize “Sympathy” – if that song is vicious to anyone, it’s to Charli Hersself.

Still, there’s personal narratives we don’t fully understand at play here. SWIFT May Sing That She Hadn’t Thought About Charli “In a Long Time,” But the pop stars have a legethy history. Their First Time Performing Together was in 2015, on Swift’s 1989 World Tour, Wen Charli Was a Surprise Guest in Toronto. THEN Charli was an opener alongside Camilla Cabello on the Reputation World Tour in 2018. In a 2019 interview with PitchforkCharli Said, “Really grateful that (taylor) asced me on that tour,” but added that “as an artist, it kind of felt like up on stage and waving to 5 -ear-ops.” She late clarified that comment in a tweetSaying, “Leading Up to that Tour I’d Been Playing a Tonne of 18+ Club Shows and SO to be on a Stage in Front of All Ages new to me and Made with Approach with A whole Kind of Energy … there is absolutely no shade and only love!”

SWIFT DIDN’T PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE CHARLI AGAIN UNIL AFTER Bra Came out. “I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensitivity to first Heard ‘Stay Away’ in 2011,” SWIFT Told New York in a profile of Charli. “Her Writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just take a song a song to the places you was to go, and she’s ben doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work.” Now Singing a Different Tune. Maybe these two can work it out on the remix.