Does Taylor Swift Actually Know What ‘CANCELLED!’ Means?

If you can get past the Disney-villain quality of “CANCELLED!,” the track is one of the strangest on The Life of a Showgirl , and one of three tracks where “evil” Taylor Swift comes out to play (alongside “Father Figure” and “Actually Romantic”). The song is about Swift welcoming a canceled friend to her “underworld” (imagine Hot Topic lighting), where she likes her friends “cloaked in Gucci and scandal.” Scandal isn’t necessarily cancellation, though it’s almost certain that Swift doesn’t know the difference. For her, being canceled is when people hate her album; in reality, it’s when someone says a slur on a podcast. When Swift says she likes her friends canceled, it’s hard to take literally: In the years since Reputation , she’s been one of the most scandal-averse public figures