Decoding Taylor Swift’s 'The Life a Showgirl'
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This year’s The Life of a Showgirl marks the first time I might also say “distance helps” about a Taylor Swift album. It’s not that Swift at 35 has by any means aged out of her own role of World’s Biggest Pop Star—if anything she’s still acting too young.
Swift's fiancé, NFL star Travis Kelce, revealed in August that “Opalite” was his favorite song on "The Life of a Showgirl."
Swift's turns superstitions on their head in "Wood" with the line: "Seems to me that / you and me, we / make our own luck," before rounding out the bumping beat with "his love was the key that opened my thighs."