Taylor Swift has insisted her racy new song ‘Wood’ “started out in a very innocent place”.
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The singer has just released her twelfth studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl‘, which contains the disco-inspired ‘Wood’.
Though Swift has said she believes her mother thinks the song is about popular superstitions, NME observed in our own review that ‘Wood’ “winks at her fiancé’s prowess both in the bedroom and as a podcaster”.
It includes suggestive lyrics referencing Kelce’s podcast ‘New Heights’, as Swift sings: “Seems to me that you and me, we make our own luck / New heights of manhood, I ain’t gotta knock on wood.” You can check out all Easter eggs and references in ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ here.
Now, in an interview with Jimmy Fallon breaking down the album, Swift has said that the song started when she told producers Max Martin and Shellback: “I wanna do a throwback, timeless-sounding song, and I have this idea of ‘I ain’t gotta knock on wood’, and it would be all susperstitions… it really started out in a very innocent place!”
“I don’t know what happened, man,” Swift continued. “I got in there, we started vibing and I don’t know how we got here, but I love the song so much.”
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In our review, we wrote that ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ was “magical when the songwriter just lets herself be”. “For the first time,” we added, “‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into artistic growth by love, but merely comfortably secured by it.”
The singer has denied she will quit music upon getting married to her fiancée Travis Kelce, playfully adding that it was “shockingly offensive” to suggest so.
Speaking to Scott Mills on BBC Radio 2, she said: “I’m really right now just like really stoked about the idea that I get to marry this person. I’m gonna think about that and then I’m gonna put out this album and then I’m gonna think about other things after that.”
For now, the singer has ruled out touring off the back of her record-breaking Eras tour, adding: “I’m gonna be really honest with you. I am so tired, like when I think about doing it again. Because I would want to do it really well again, you know?”
She has also turned down playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show, denying to Fallon that the rejection was over footage rights. “This has nothing to do with Travis,” Swift reasoned. “He would love for me to do it, but I’m just too locked in.”
Elsewhere, Taylor Swift has shared why “one of her absolute favourite people” Ed Sheeran found out about her engagement on Instagram.
