During an appearance on SiriusXM Hits 1, Taylor Swift opened up about playing the more explicit songs on The Life of a Showgirl for her mother. Based on her response, she must have queued up the clean version of “Wood.”

“I think that she thinks that that song is about superstitions, popular superstitions, which it absolutely is,” Swift said. “That’s the joy of the double entendre. You could read that song for people and it just goes right over their head. You see in that song what you wanna see in that song.”

“Wood” isn’t particularly vague — “He ah-matized me and opened my еyes/Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see/His love was thе key that opened my thighs” — but maybe it’s just easier for her mother to turn a blind eye. There are other moments on the album that opt for profanity

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