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The Life of a Showgirl: All The Hidden Song Meanings, Easter Eggs, and Lyrics in Taylor Swift’s New Album

In spiritual terms, Opalite can bring inner peace and calm, while also emotionally healing. Additionally, it can enhance communication and promote growth.

Lyrics such as ”I had a bad habit of missing my lover’s past, my brother used to call it” and “all the perfect couples said ‘when you know you know, and when you don’t, you don’t”, all appear to be a reflection on her relationship traits.

In previous relationships, Taylor has only used her songs to reference bad break-ups or tabloid rumours about them. In ‘Opalite’, Taylor appears to reference her own growth now that she is with Travis.

4. Father Figure

A George Michael credit and sample?? Okay, slay!

”Leave it with me, I’ll protect the family”, is a clear look into how much Taylor treasures her family unit.

Over the course of her almost 20-year career (insane), her parents have always been by her side during every album release, press hounding and supported her through travelling the world on tour. They were spotted in the crowd numerous times during Taylor’s successful Eras Tour run last year, passing out guitar picks to fans and taking selfies.

5. Eldest Daughter

Relating back to ‘Father Figure’, this track appears to be about Taylor’s relationship with her older brother, Austin.

Swift sings, “I’m not bad bitch, and this isn’t sabotage, but I’m never going to let you down, I’m never going to leave you out.” Austin is rarely seen out in public, but the pair are believed to be super close.

6. Ruin The Friendship

When the track listing for the album was released, Swifties immediately wanted to claim this song would detail the pop-star’s falling out with former bestie, Blake Lively.

However, it’s the complete opposite…

Rather than disclosing about fallouts and new enemies, Taylor goes back to school and sings about regrets about not pursuing a former friend romantically. She says, “My advice is always ruin the friendship, better that than regret it all the time, should’ve kissed you anyway”. The person in question is unknown, but she references her childhood and long-time friend Abigail, who was the one to break the ‘bad news’.

7. Actually Romantic

“I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’, when the coke’s got you brave” erm SCREAMING!!!!

A Charli XCX diss track? After all, it sounds very familiar to Charli’s hit song, ‘Everything is Romantic’.

On her critically acclaimed 2024 album Brat, it was rumoured that Charli had written ‘Symphony is a Knife’ about Taylor, despite once being friendly – Charli supported Taylor on her Reputation Tour in 2018. Things seemed to be okay between the pair when Taylor gave a glowing quote for a profile on Charli for New York Magazine, with even a remix of the Brat track rumoured between the pair (instead, Ariana Grande was the featured collaborator).

8. Wi$h List

There has been a long-standing discord that Taylor is power-hungry, and will even sabotage other artists and their upcoming releases. Though it seems this track disproves the theory.

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