There are moments across Taylor Swift’s newly released album, The Life of a Showgirl , that revel in the theatrics of public spectacles and high drama, something she knows well. Her 12-album discography has no shortage of friends, foes, lovers, and skeptics playing key characters in her music, but her new song “Actually Romantic” introduces a new leading lady who fans can’t stop speculating about.

A lot of this is because most people think the track is about Charli XCX . The two artists have orbited each other for years, having even shared the stage together on Swift’s Reputation tour. But their stars blazed different paths for them both, converging again only by a twist of fate. Charli fell in love with the 1975’s George Daniel in 2022, then a year later, Swift had entered a hi

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