The lovestruck theme continues on Opalite, whose breezy chords and Abba-esque harmonies unfurl like a blossoming romance; and Wi$h Li$t, where Swift extricates herself from the Hollywood pack for a life of domestic bliss.<\/p>\n
“They want that critical smash Palme d’Or and an Oscar on their bathroom floor,” she observes. “I just want you”. <\/p>\n
(Plus “a couple of kids” with “a best friend who I think is hot”).<\/p>\n
But perhaps the most eye-opening tribute to Kelce is Wood – a staccato dance track, complete with a Jackson 5 guitar riff, that’s essentially an extended double entendre.<\/p>\n
Therein, we find Swift superstitiously “knocking on wood” that their relationship will last, and knocking wood in the bedroom, in an unexpected homage to her fianc\u00e9’s “manhood”.<\/p>\n
It’s so silly and unexpected that I laughed out loud.<\/p>\n
The same thing goes for Actually Romantic, a fantastically sarcastic track about a fellow pop star (unnamed), who calls Swift a “boring Barbie” and writes songs about how much they hate her.<\/p>\n
Over grungy guitars and a slapping drum beat, Taylor taunts them with a touch of reverse psychology.<\/p>\n
“It sounded nasty but it feels like you’re flirting with me,” she trills. “All the effort you’ve put in, it’s actually romantic.”<\/p>\n
She continues to settle scores on Father Figure – the scathing story of a backstabbing prot\u00e9g\u00e9, that interpolates the George Michael classic of the same name.<\/p>\n
Fans will go wild trying to uncover the subject’s identity, but, to me, the song feels more like a morality tale about a music industry Svengali, who possesses the power to wipe out anyone who isn’t “loyal to the family”.<\/p>\n
Full of cinematic strings and disorientating key changes, it sits alongside No Body, No Crime, Bad Blood and Vigilante S*** in Swift’s expanding catalogue of revenge anthems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lovestruck theme continues on Opalite, whose breezy chords and Abba-esque harmonies unfurl like a blossoming romance; and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-176790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}