Taylor Swift’s new album is polarizing its listeners — and even some of Swift’s die-hard fans. Its lyrics aren’t resonating like they used to, and with selections such as “Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?” and “But I’m not a bad b**** and this isn’t savage,” it’s not hard to see why.
But the most controversial song on the pop star’s album is not “Wood,” the one where she sings about, um, her football-playing fiancé’s skills (and not with carpentry). The songs that have been drawing the most ire from fans are “CANCELLED!” and “Wi$h Li$t,” two fairly benign tracks that have got some corners of the internet screaming “MAGA.”
“Beware the wrath of masked crusaders,” she sings in the former track, signaling her support for people who have been “canceled” by internet interlopers: “Good thing I like my friends cancelled.” Some listeners have interpreted the song to be about Brittany Mahomes, the Trump-supporting wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. “Taylor Swift is just coming out as MAGA with this new album,” said one TikToker. “Why else would she have a song saying that she likes her friends being canceled and soaked in a scandal?”
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