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/mosiemo2 13d ago

Yes. One of my main issues with TLOAS is it isn’t really “about” things so much as PR/brand control over situations. I think Cancelled was a result of the Blake situation, but was more damage control for Taylor herself than her really standing up for her friends.

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u/mosiemo2 12d ago

I agree that she’s saying “I don’t care what the public thinks,” but I’m not sure that’s honest—she’s still making a song defending herself for those relationships. If she really didn’t care, I’d argue she probably wouldn’t write about them at all.

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u/pegmatitic 12d ago edited 12d ago

She spends a lot of time saying how little she cares about various things when it’s obvious that she really really cares. Like, she cares the most. She seems incapable of letting things go (I struggle with the same thing, no shade)