Taylor Swift . Charli XCX . Matty Healy. George Daniel.

These are all names you're going to have to know if you want to have any hope of understanding why The Life of a Showgirl listeners are theorizing that the seventh song off Swift's new album, "Actually Romantic," is a diss track about Charli XCX.

"Actually Romantic" appears to be a pretty direct response to "Sympathy is a knife," a song off Charli's hit 2024 album BRAT in which she sang about how the presence of a fellow pop star sent her into a spiral of self-doubt. Given that Swift was dating the 1975 front man Matty Healy, a bandmate of Charli's now-husband George Daniel, while the 1975 was on tour the year prior, it's been widely rumored that "Sympathy is a knife" was about Taylor.

"I don't wanna share this space. I

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