Almost two decades into her career, Taylor Swift has proven time and again that she knows how to write a good love song.

So when it turned out that the track from her new album, , is anything but what the title suggests, it came as a surprise to many listeners.

“Like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse / That's how much it hurts,” Swift sings, over an arrangement of electric guitars and drums.

Critics and fans believe the song is a diss track aimed at fellow pop star Charli XCX, best known for her smash 2024 album .

On , Swift explains the song is about “realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you … and you just accepting it as love.” WATCH | Lyric video for Actually Romantic by Taylor Swift (explicit):

As people continue to

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