Charli xcx is “deep” into her follow-up to Brat amid her alleged “feud” with Taylor Swift.
Taylor seemingly took intention at Charli on the observe Truly Romantic from her newest LP The Lifetime of a Showgirl.
The pop megastar set tongues wagging that the music – the title of which is eyebrow-raisingly just like Charli’s Brat music All the pieces is Romantic – is aimed on the 360 hitmaker.
Taylor dated The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, who’s the bandmate of Charli’s husband George Daniel, and followers imagine Truly Romantic takes photographs at her Popularity Tour assist act.
Charli’s Brat music Sympathy is a Knife got here first and is rumoured to be a Taylor diss music, with the British star seemingly wishing that Taylor and Matty break up up on the road: “Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present / Fingers crossed behind my again / I hope they break up fast.”
And, many followers imagine Taylor has retaliated on the brand new music.
She sings on Truly Romantic: “I heard you name me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s acquired you courageous / Excessive-fived my ex and then you definitely mentioned you’re glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a music saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some individuals is likely to be offended…”
Within the refrain, she fires off “…But it surely’s really candy, on a regular basis you’ve spent on me / It’s truthfully wild, all the hassle you’ve put in / It’s really romantic, I actually acquired handy it to you / No man has ever beloved me such as you do.”
Taylor opened up in regards to the music’s lyrics within the album’s movie The Official Launch Celebration of a Showgirl, saying: ‘[It’s] a love letter to somebody who hates you …
“There may be this second the place it is unveiled to you, by means of issues that they do which are very overt. And, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve simply began to be like, ‘Oh my God, you probably did a lot with this. It is flattering.
“That’s, wow, that could be very, very candy of you to consider me this a lot, even when it is detrimental. In my business, consideration is affection, and you’ve got given me an entire lot of it.”
Truly Romantic options the lyrics: “I heard you name me Boring Barbie when the coke’s acquired you courageous / Excessive-fived my ex after which mentioned you’re glad he ghosted me.
“Wrote me a music saying it makes you sick to see my face/ Some individuals is likely to be offended/ But it surely’s really candy.”
On Sympathy is a Knife, Charli mentioned: “Don’t know if I’m spiralling/ One voice tells me that they snicker/ George says I’m simply paranoid/
“Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present/ Fingers crossed behind my again/ I hope they break up actual fast.”
Taylor gave additional clues about Truly Romantic’s topic in an audio track-by-track breakdown of the brand new album for Amazon Music, through which she mentioned: “[It’s] a music about realising that another person has sort of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you simply didn’t learn about.
“And abruptly they begin doing an excessive amount of they usually begin letting you realize that truly, you’ve been dwelling of their head rent-free and also you had no concept.”
Taylor has left followers guessing by not naming the individual the music is about.
Nonetheless, with the timing of Charli’s return to the studio, having shared an image of her producer on the mixing desk on her Instagram Story on Sunday (05.10.25), there may be each likelihood Charli may reply on a music.
Confirming Charli’s subsequent album is underway, certainly one of her Brat producers, Finn Keane, lately informed MusicNews.com on the BMI London Awards: “We’re kinda deep in it now, and I feel it’s gonna be actually wonderful… It feels actually totally different and contemporary in the intervening time.”
