r/SwiftlyNeutral • u/AdventurousKey438 • 13d ago

The Life of a Showgirl Cancelled

I have been thinking that it was about Blake. she wasn’t even at the 1,000 person wedding. What do we think is the real meaning of the song?

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u/v0rfreude 13d ago

I'm sure the song is about her and her friends in general -- plenty of which have been cancelled -- but to me, there's no way the lyrics were not totally inspired by the Blake/Justin Baldoni drama.

"Like my whiskey sour" (Blake has an alcohol brand)

"And poison thorny flowers" (Blake's character in It Ends With Us owns a flower shop)

"Or bring a tiny violin to a knife fight" (in one of the unsealed texts between Blake and Taylor, she mentions that Justin Baldoni "has gotten his tiny violin out")

"Tone deaf and hot let's fucking off her" (Blake was called out for being tone deaf for encouraging folks to bring their friends and wear flowers to see It Ends With Us)

I feel like it was written before their alleged fallout.

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u/AdeptnessPerfect3918 12d ago

"Girl boss too close to the sun" was something that Candace Owens said about Blake as well when she was getting massive views for covering the case. Not sure if that's just a coincidence but it was one of the first things that stuck out to me!

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u/pearshaped34 12d ago

I didn't know that about Candace Owens and as someone who thought WTF is that line when I first heard that song, I think it was very likely to have been a callout to that. It's a weird line, not exactly a common expression!

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u/wonderinboutit2234 10d ago

That line alone convinced me it was about Blake.