{"id":213989,"date":"2026-01-03T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213989\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:07:09","slug":"watch-anderson-cooper-deliver-dramatic-reading-of-taylor-swifts-wood-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213989\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Anderson Cooper deliver dramatic reading of Taylor Swift\u2019s ‘Wood’ on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anderson Cooper struggled to hold in his laughter when he ended up doing a dramatic reading of Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s viral hit \u2018Wood\u2019 on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Taylor Swift: The End Of An Era\u2019 review: tears over terrorist plot reveal emotional weight of stardom<\/a><\/p>\n

While co-hosting CNN\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve Live, Cooper was asked to read out the song\u2019s innuendo-laden lyrics, which he had evidently never seen before.<\/p>\n

He struggled to make it through phrases such as \u201cRedwood tree, his love was the key that opened my thighs,\u201d and a mention of the \u201cNew Heights of manhood.\u201d Cohen, clearly enjoying this, was egging him on: \u201cOh yeah, oh yeah, knock on wood, baby!\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re probably familiar with this song, I was not,\u201d Cooper said between fits of laughter. An amused Cohen replied: \u201cSweetie, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Wood\u2019 is believed to refer to Swift\u2019s fiance Travis Kelce and was one of the most talked-about tracks from her recent album \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019<\/a>, released in October. \u00a0Though Swift has said she believes\u00a0her mother thinks the song is about popular superstitions<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0observed in our own review<\/a>\u00a0that \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cwinks at her fianc\u00e9\u2019s prowess both in the bedroom and as a podcaster\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kelce responded to the lyrics on the\u00a0New Heights podcast, which he hosts with his brother Jason. \u201cIt\u2019s a great song. I love that girl\u2026 any song that she would reference me in that way\u2026\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just you,\u201d Jason added, suggesting that some of the lyrics were about Travis\u2019 \u201cmanhood\u201d: \u201cIt\u2019s an appendage. It\u2019s a very specific thing.\u201d Defending himself, Travis joked: \u201cI think you\u2019re not understanding the song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Swift insisted that \u2018Wood\u2019 \u201cstarted out in a very innocent place\u201d. In\u00a0an interview with\u00a0Jimmy Fallon<\/a>\u00a0breaking down the album, Swift has said that the song started when she told producers\u00a0Max Martin<\/a>\u00a0and Shellback: \u201cI wanna do a throwback, timeless-sounding song, and I have this idea of \u2018I ain\u2019t gotta knock on wood\u2019, and it would be all susperstitions\u2026 it really started out in a very innocent place!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, man,\u201d Swift continued. \u201cI got in there, we started vibing and I don\u2019t know how we got here, but I love the song so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other news, Swift has been thanked for her \u201cgenerous\u201d and \u201ctimely\u201d donations to children\u2019s charities in Nashville and Kansas City ahead of Christmas. The beneficiaries were the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\u2019s Hospital\u00a0at Vanderbilt<\/a> in Nashville and the Operation Breakthrough<\/a> in Kansas City, which provides a \u201csafe, loving and educational environment for children in poverty\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper struggled to hold in his laughter when he ended up doing a dramatic reading of Taylor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,4913],"class_list":["post-213989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}