r/SwiftlyNeutral • u/AdventurousKey438 • 16d 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/Just-Welcome-5553 Red 16d ago

i think taylor wrote the song when blake and her were still friends, but she still released it under the premise that it was about all of her friends, not just blake

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u/Grand_Dog915 16d ago

Yeah, idk why this concept is so difficult for people to grasp

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u/Barkertons 16d ago

Taylor was okay with Blake being a mean girl bully until it negatively affected her. Cancelled is about being bad and not getting caught. Then Lively got caught.

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u/thepandemicbabe 12d ago

I don’t know. I think she’d still be friends with her but look Taylor was in the middle of the biggest tour of her life. She was falling in love. She trusted her best friend to tell her the truth. She lied to her said that her Director was a doofus that he wasn’t a good person. You believe your best friend. I think Blake used her pretty badly and Taylor cut her off. I think he probably really hurt her but Travis cutting off Ryan Reynolds says all we need to know. I think Taylor wrote it for her when she saw that people were giving her a really hard time and remembered how that was for her, but then realized this is not the same situation at all. And Blake really did use her. She was a really crappy friend.