After Taylor Swift followers speculated that the pop star subtly dissed her fiancé Travis Kelce's ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole on her music “Opalite,” it appears that evidently the influencer might need addressed the fray.
Nicole, 33, took to her Instagram Tales on Saturday, October 4, to share a throwback clip of Eva Marcille's America's Subsequent High Mannequin audition from cycle 3 in 2004.
“How do you evaluate your self to different women on the market?” host Tyra Banks requested Marcille, now 40, within the footage.
Marcille shortly responded, “I don't evaluate myself to different women. I'm Eva. I'm no comparability to anybody else.”
Like clockwork, Taylor Swift's album The Lifetime of a Showgirl dropped at midnight on Friday, October 3, and by 12:01, followers have been studying into the lyrics, in search of hidden meanings. The album's third observe, “Opalite,” supplies fairly the tantalizing nugget — one which followers suppose throws shade at Kayla Nicole, the ex-girlfriend of Swift's fiancé, […]
Whereas Nicole didn't supply any extra rationalization as to why she shared the ANTM clip, it's been theorized that her previous with Kelce, 35, was a topic of Swift's new music “Opalite.”
“You couldn't perceive it / Why you felt alone / You have been in it for actual / She was in her telephone / You have been only a pose,” Swift, 35, sings on the observe. “And don't we attempt to love love / And provides all of it we received / You lastly left the desk / And what a easy thought / You're ravenous 'til you're not.”
Kelce dated Nicole from 2017 to 2022, throughout which era the previous Particular Forces: World's Hardest Check winner would continuously share social media movies of her then-boyfriend.
“Oh, my God. Get off your telephone,” Kelce mentioned in a single just lately resurfaced clip whereas at dinner with Nicole. “Get off your telephone. … You're not even ingesting your wine anymore, can we go?”
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss after the 2024 Tremendous Bowl. Erick W. Rasco/Sports activities Illustrated by way of Getty Photographs
“Opalite” is likely one of the 12 tracks from Swift's twelfth studio album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which dropped on Friday, October 3.
“‘Opalite' is a music [where] that phrase is one thing I wrote down ‘trigger I believed it was stunning and got here again to it after we have been scripting this actually stunning, infectious hook-y observe,” Swift mentioned throughout her “Launch Celebration of a Showgirl” theatrical occasion about collaborating with Max Martin and Shellback. “Opalite is man-made opal. I've all the time cherished opals [and] my mother has all the time cherished opals. It's type of our factor — one in all our many issues.”
She added, “I cherished the metaphor of a man-made opal and likewise you needed to, like, make your individual happiness in your life. You needed to get your self by way of some troublesome instances to get to the constructive place you're in now. I actually cherished the concept the man-made gemstone jewel can also be a metaphor for selecting your individual path to happiness [and] making it your self. It was man-made [and] it didn't simply occur to you.”
Swift wrote everything of The Lifetime of a Showgirl in the course of the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour in 2024. Along with performing spectacular feats on stage each evening, that period for Swift was additionally marked by her romance with Kelce. (Swift and Kelce began relationship in summer season 2023.)
“You have been dancing by way of the lightning strikes / Sleepless within the onyx evening / However now the sky is opalite,” Swift provides within the music's refrain. “By no means met nobody likе you earlier than / You needed to make your individual sunshinе / However now the sky is opalite.”
Kelce, who proclaimed that “Opalite” was his favourite Showgirl music forward of launch day, proposed to Swift in August. Their romance additionally seemingly impressed her songs “The Destiny of Ophelia,” “Honey,” “Want Checklist” and “Wooden.”
The Lifetime of a Showgirl is out now.
