Because the early reactions to Taylor Swift's new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, come pouring in, it's clear that 50 Cent is a fan.
50 Cent, whose actual title is Curtis Jackson, shared a photograph of the album cowl through Instagram on Friday, October 3, thanking Swift, 35, for shouting him out on the monitor “Wreck the Friendship.”
“@taylorswift shit is popping proper now, 😏she shout me out, 🤫she don't shout you out,” he wrote. “LOL 😆 THIS IS FOR BIG TIMERS ONLY! @50centaction wait I'm the one shout out on the entire album. 🔥”
50 Cent's shout-out comes when Swift sings, “And it was not an invite / However because the 50 Cеnt tune performed / Ought to've kissed you anyway.”
If we're being choosy, the second monitor known as “Elizabeth Taylor,” making the late actress one other shout-out along with 50 Cent, 50. The album additionally contains a lot of obvious references to celebrities, although she doesn't name them out by title. That features fiancé Travis Kelce, who Swift alludes to on a number of tracks, reminiscent of “Opalite,” which is all about her and Kelce's journey towards discovering one another.
Swift additionally seemingly alludes to Olivia Rodrigo, Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta on “Father Determine,” whereas “Really Romantic” seems to be a Charli XCX diss monitor.
“Wreck the Friendship,” which followers initially suspected can be about Swift's strained relationship with pal Blake Energetic, appears to really be about her highschool pal Jeff Lang, who died of an overdose in 2010 amid psychological well being struggles.
The oft-repeated “ought to have kissed you anyway” line appears to check with Swift questioning what may have been if the 2 associates had been open about their emotions for one another. Later, she recalled when pal Abigail Anderson Berard known as “with the dangerous information.”
Weeks away from its launch, Taylor Swift's twelfth album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, has followers spiraling over her lyrical prose and the which means behind every sure-to-be pop hit. Swift, 35, introduced her twelfth studio document throughout a Wednesday, August 13, look on her boyfriend Travis Kelce's “New Heights” podcast, revealing that she wrote the […]
“Goodbye, and we'll by no means know why,” she sings. “However I flew dwelling anyway / With a lot left to say / It was not handy / However I whispered on the grave / Ought to have kissed you anyway.”
Swift carried out at Lang's funeral, later reflecting on that second in a video message to the BMI Nation Awards weeks later as she accepted her win as Nation Songwriter of the 12 months.
“It's been a extremely emotional week for me,” she stated earlier than dedicating the award to Lang. “Yesterday, I sang on the funeral of one among my greatest associates. He was 21, and I used to play my songs for him first. So, I want to thank Jeff Lang.”
Swift defined when she first introduced The Lifetime of a Showgirl in August that the album would contact on areas of her life, saying it was “the whole lot that was occurring behind the scenes” throughout her Eras Tour.
“This album isn't actually about what occurred to me on stage. It's about what I used to be going by off stage,” she stated in an look on Kelce's “New Heights” podcast. “It's the life past the present.”
“Wreck the Friendship” isn't the primary time Swift has alluded to Lang in her music. “Perpetually Winter,” a vault monitor from 2023's Purple (Taylor's Model), is a couple of pal battling substance abuse.
“Too younger to understand it will get higher / I'll be summer season solar for you eternally,” she sings.
