Travis Kelce has reacted to Taylor Swift‘s innuendo-filled track ‘Wood’ – see what he had to say below.
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Last week, Swift released her 12th studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’. Among the most talked about tracks on the record is ‘Wood’. Though Swift has said she believes her mother thinks the song is about popular superstitions, NME observed in our own review that ‘Wood’ “winks at her fiancé’s prowess both in the bedroom and as a podcaster”.
It includes suggestive lyrics referencing Kelce’s podcast ‘New Heights’, as Swift sings: “Seems to me that you and me, we make our own luck / New heights of manhood, I ain’t gotta knock on wood.” She also sings on the chorus: “His love was the key that opened my thighs.” You can check out all Easter eggs and references in ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ here.
On the latest episode of the New Heights podcast – hosted by Travis Kelce and his brother Jason – the professional American footballer and Swift’s fiancé spoke about ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’.
Addressing the lyrics on ‘Wood’, Travis coyly said: “It’s a great song. I love that girl… any song that she would reference me in that way…”
“It’s not just you,” Jason added, suggesting that some of the lyrics were about Travis’ “manhood”: “It’s an appendage. It’s a very specific thing.” Defending himself, Travis joked: “I think you’re not understanding the song.”
Earlier this week, Swift insisted that ‘Wood’ “started out in a very innocent place”. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon breaking down the album, Swift has said that the song started when she told producers Max Martin and Shellback: “I wanna do a throwback, timeless-sounding song, and I have this idea of ‘I ain’t gotta knock on wood’, and it would be all susperstitions… it really started out in a very innocent place!”
“I don’t know what happened, man,” Swift continued. “I got in there, we started vibing and I don’t know how we got here, but I love the song so much.”
She has also recently said that she used to fear that her songwriting would “dry up” if she were ever in a happy relationship. “What if writing is directly tied to my torment and pain?” she said. “And it turns out, that’s not the case at all, and we just were catching lightning in a bottle with this record.”
NME gave ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ three stars, writing: “To seek escapism is not a sin, but the best pop music makes the personal feel like life or death. ‘Speak Now’, ‘Reputation’, ‘Folklore’: her greatest works could be genuinely transformative. For the first time, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into artistic growth by love, but merely comfortably secured by it.”
