Charli XCX will not verify if a ‘Brat’ track is about Taylor Swift

Charli XCX received’t be including any gasoline to the Taylor Swift feud hearth.

Rumors of a rift between the pop artists have been just lately reignited by the discharge of Charli’s splashy summer season album, Brat, however neither singer is giving any credence to the web’s theories. Throughout a latest profile for New York journal, Charli shrugged off the notion that her observe “Sympathy Is a Knife” has something to do with the “Karma” singer.

“Individuals are gonna assume what they wish to assume,” she mentioned, when requested if there’s a connection. “That track 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 wish to be in these conditions bodily after I really feel self-doubt.”

As for Swift, she had solely constructive phrases to share concerning the “Guess” singer.

“I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensibilities since I first heard ‘Keep Away’ in 2011,” she instructed the outlet. “Her writing is surreal and ingenious, at all times. She simply takes a track to locations you wouldn’t count on it to go, and she or he’s been doing it persistently for over a decade. I like to see exhausting work like that repay.”

“Sympathy Is a Knife” sees Charli spiraling over self-doubt whereas evaluating herself to a different lady. “I couldn’t even be her if I attempted,” she sings at one level, then within the second verse says, “Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present / Fingers crossed behind my again / I hope they break up fast.”

Charli is engaged to The 1975 drummer George Daniel so given Swift’s temporary 2023 relationship with the band’s lead singer, Matty Healy, web sleuths theorize that she was the backstage beau in query. Nonetheless the feud rumors date again a lot farther than Brat.

Again in 2018, Charli joined Swift on the highway for her Fame stadium tour, which oft noticed her return to the stage to frolic round with different particular friends throughout “Shake It Off.” A 12 months later, she would endure the wrath of Swifties for telling Pitchfork, “As an artist, it type of felt like I used to be getting up onstage and waving to 5-year-olds.” Charli later clarified her remark on X (previously Twitter), writing, “It was good opening for Taylor, I’m extraordinarily grateful for the chance.”

Regardless of the artists talking extremely of each other, followers have stored the feud alive on social media and even at concert events. Earlier this 12 months, Charli took be aware of a crowd chanting “Taylor is lifeless” at a June efficiency to point the rise of Brat threatening Swift’s chart-topping album, The Tortured Poet’s Division.

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The Grammy-nominee was lower than thrilled, and instantly requested followers to close down the “poisonous conduct.” In a now-expired Instagram Story, she wrote, “Can the individuals who do that please cease. on-line or at my exhibits. it’s the reverse of what i would like and it disturbs me that anybody would assume there may be room for this on this neighborhood.”

Whereas Charli and Swift are denying the feud allegations, there’s at all times the opportunity of them dealing with issues Lorde model, and dealing it out on the remix.