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Taylor Swift gave a new interview to SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up
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She’s opening up about her mom’s thoughts on her risqué The Life of a Showgirl track “Wood”
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“That song, you could read that song for people and it just goes right over their head,” said Taylor
Does Taylor Swift’s mom understand the lyrics of her song “Wood”?
The pop superstar’s new album The Life of a Showgirl, released on Friday, Oct. 3, features maybe her most raunchiest song yet with “Wood,” featuring risqué lyrics and references to her fiancé Travis Kelce’s BDE. But that’s not exactly what Taylor’s mom, Andrea, took away from the song.
“I think that she thinks that that song is about superstitions, popular superstitions, which, which it absolutely is,” said Taylor in a new interview on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up of “Wood,” which does include lyrical references to superstitious activities like knocking on wood, stepping on cracks and wishing on falling stars.
Following the song’s chorus, however, Taylor sings a bit more suggestively: “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me and opened my еyes / Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was thе key that opened my thighs.”
She then adds, referencing the title of Kelce’s podcast: “New Heights of manhood / I ain’t gotta knock on wood.”
Her mom seemingly didn’t see through the innuendos. “That’s the joy of the double entendre,” Taylor told the SiriusXM program. “That song, you could read that song for people and it just goes right over their head. That song you, you see in that song what you wanna see in that song.”
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Taylor Swift in October 2025
At another point in the interview, the “Elizabeth Taylor” singer spoke about how she decides when to use explicit language in her music.
“If it’s to me improves the intensity of the moment or if, in terms of syllables or you just consonance and vowels, if, if to me it pops off more, you know, there are certain lyrics that just bounce more,” she said.
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Taylor Swift and Andrea Swift in May 2007
Taylor continued, “Or if it feels like it’s a part of the vernacular of how that character that I’m kind of cosplaying in that song would speak. Like, there are a lot of different reasons you choose to throw in a swear word or like a certain phrase or a sort of alliteration or whatever.”
“But that’s what I love so much about songwriting is those, those decisions are fun and oftentimes hilarious to make,” concluded the Grammy winner.
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