Throughout a uncommon podcast look, Prince Harry is getting a crash course in popular culture after being requested concerning the lore between pop stars Taylor Swift and Charli XCX.
“This one's heavy, Harry, as a result of the opposite ones haven't been,” Hasan Minhaj requested the Duke of Sussex, 41, throughout their joint Wednesday, October 29, podcast look on the comic's “Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know” present from Lemonada Media. “What do you consider this Charli XCX and Taylor Swift beef?”
Harry succinctly replied, “The what? Oh, no.”
Minhaj, 40, helped Harry out and supplied a full breakdown of the historical past between Swift, 35, and Charli, 33.
“Was Charli's diss observe even a diss observe?” Minhaj advised Harry, who seemingly had a clean expression on his face. “I imply, to me, ‘Sympathy Is a Knife' was about one thing utterly completely different, however then Taylor comes again and, I believe, escalates it with the ‘Truly Romantic' factor.”
Minhaj continued, “I'm type of considering to myself, ‘Is that this truthful or did Charli draw blood and Taylor needed to reply?' Typically I simply suppose, ‘The place can we go from right here?'”
Whereas Harry didn't provide his opinion on the obvious feud, followers have lengthy presumed that Charli's “Sympathy Is a Knife” was meant to be a dig at Swift when it was launched in 2024.
“Don't wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend's present / Fingers crossed behind my again, I hope they break up fast,” she sings, which followers thought was a reference to Swift's transient romance with Matty Healy, the bandmate of Charli's now-husband, George Daniel. “‘Trigger I couldn't even be her if I attempted / I'm reverse, I'm on the opposite facet / I really feel all these emotions I can't management.”
Some Charli XCX followers are satisfied that the Brat observe “Sympathy Is a Knife” is about Taylor Swift, however Charli says that's not precisely the case. “Persons are gonna suppose what they need to suppose,” Charli, 32, advised New York journal in a canopy story interview revealed Monday, August 25. “That tune is about me […]
Charli later shut down the hypothesis, telling New York Journal in August 2024 that the tune wasn't about Swift in any respect.
“That tune is about me and my emotions and my anxiousness and the best way my mind creates narratives and tales in my head after I really feel insecure and the way I don't need to be in these conditions bodily after I really feel self-doubt,” Charli advised the outlet. “Typically I'd look onstage and be like, ‘Oh, my God … I'm by no means going to play these rooms, ever.' That made me really feel jealous. I advised Matty that. And George. They had been each like, ‘Shut up. What are you speaking about?'”
The subsequent yr, Swift launched her tune “Truly Romantic” on The Lifetime of a Showgirl that her followers speculated served as a response to Charli's observe.
“I heard you name me boring Barbie when the coke's bought your mind / Excessive-fived my ex after which mentioned you're glad he ghosted me,” Swift sings within the first verse. “Wrote me a tune saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some folks may be offended.”
Charli XCX was the shock “Sally” throughout Position Mannequin's Saturday Evening Reside debut, however did she subtly react to Taylor Swift's lyrical allusion within the course of? Position Mannequin, 28, carried out his hit “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” throughout the Saturday, October 11, episode of SNL, enlisting Charli, 33, for a cameo. After Position Mannequin […]
Swift, who hardly ever names her lyrical muses, supplied transient perception into her songwriting inspiration throughout her Launch Celebration of a Showgirl theatrical occasion earlier this month.
“The tune ‘Truly Romantic' is kind of a love letter to somebody who hates you,” the 14-time Grammy winner mentioned. “It's, like, generally you don't know that you simply're part of another person's tales, however you might be. There will be this second, the place [it's revealed] to you thru issues that they do which might be very overt. As I've gotten older, I've began being, like, ‘Oh my God, you probably did a lot with this. It's flattering. I don't hate you, and I don't take into consideration all this.'”
Whereas talking to Vainness Truthful in an October profile, Charli declined to touch upon Swift's tune.
