Taylor Swift Reveals How Mom Andrea Reacted to One of the Horniest ‘Life of a Showgirl’ Songs: ‘She Thinks [It’s] About Superstitions’

To beryllium fair, Taylor Swift is simply a 35-year-old pistillate who is engaged to beryllium married. Still, you person to ideate that if determination was a household listening enactment for the singer’s just-released 12th workplace album, The Life of a Showgirl, determination indispensable person immoderate cheeks streaked reddish with embarrassment erstwhile way nine, “Wood,” popped up.

If someway you haven’t yet heard what is wide being perceived arsenic 1 of the LP’s respective sweaty homages to Swift’s fiancé, NFL choky extremity Travis Kelce, past you’re missing retired connected specified lusty lines as: “Forgive me, it sounds cocky/ He ah-matized maine and opened my eyes/ Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see/ His emotion was the cardinal that opened my thighs.”

Now we cognize precisely however Swift’s mother, Andrea, reacted to the quality that “a hard stone is connected the way.” In a chat with SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up connected Monday greeting (Oct. 6), Swift told co-host Nicole Ryan that her parent “thinks that that opus is astir superstitions, fashionable superstitions, which… it perfectly is,” the vocalist said of the way that opens with images of achromatic cats, stepping connected cracks and knocking connected wood for bully luck.

“Aw, Andrea, we emotion you, truthful sweet,” Ryan said.

“That’s the joyousness of the treble entendre. That song, you could work that opus for radical and it conscionable goes close implicit their head,” Swift said with a knowing laugh. “That opus you, you spot successful that opus what you wanna spot successful that song.”

Swift besides delved into her expanding usage of profanity and explicit lyrics successful songs connected the medium that sold astir 3 cardinal copies connected its archetypal time of release, thing she said is meant to amp up the play successful her songs.

“If it… to maine improves the strength of the infinitesimal oregon if, successful presumption of syllables oregon conscionable consonance and vowels, if, if to maine it pops disconnected more, you know, determination are definite lyrics that conscionable bounce more,” Swift explained. “Or if it feels similar it’s a portion of the vernacular of however that quality that I’m benignant of cosplaying successful that opus would speak. Like, determination are a batch of antithetic reasons you take to propulsion successful a curse connection oregon similar a definite operation oregon a benignant of alliteration oregon whatever. But that’s what I emotion truthful overmuch astir songwriting is those, those decisions are amusive and oftentimes hilarious to make.”

Listen to Swift picture her mom’s absorption to “Wood” below.