Like clockwork, Taylor Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl dropped at midnight on Friday, October 3, and by 12:01, fans were reading into the lyrics, looking for hidden meanings.

The album’s third track, “Opalite,” provides quite the tantalizing nugget — one that fans think throws shade at Kayla Nicole, the ex-girlfriend of Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce.

The song is seemingly about Swift, 35, searching for the perfect partner, whom she found in Kelce, also 35, when the two began dating in 2023. The pair announced their engagement via Instagram in August.

Kelce’s birthstone is the opal, leaving little question about the song referring to him. When she refers to Kelce in “Opalite,” she sings, “You were dancing through the lightning strikes / Sleepless in the onyx night / But now the sky i

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