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Following the release of Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl, the whole world unexpectedly learned what Travis Kelce is up to.
Less than a week after the album’s release, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 36, finally thought about his fiancée Swift, 35, who was dedicated to his physical sexual prowess titled “Wood.”
“It’s a great song,” Travis said when his brother, Jason Kelce, specifically asked him his thoughts on “Wood” on the Oct. 8 episode of the New Heights Podcast.
Pressing further, Jason, 37, asked, “Do you feel good, do you feel insecure? Do you feel cocky about the song ‘Wood’?” ” he asked.
“No,” Travis replied, adding, “The songs she references me in are so…”
“It’s not just a song. It’s a very specific you,” Jason cut.
Maintaining his air of innocence, Travis says, “I love that girl, so what do you mean?”
But Jason wasn’t having it, so he interrupted his brother again and said, “It’s not just you. It’s an appendage. It’s something very specific.”
“What?” Travis teased his brother. “I don’t think you understand the song.”
Jason wouldn’t let it go, so he took the opportunity to quote some of the song’s more suggestive lyrics.
“Travis, come on,” he said. “A redwood tree isn’t hard to see… Redwood, I thought it was a little bit, I think that’s a generous word. If someone wrote a song about me, I think it would be like, ‘Japanese maple can be seen.’ ”
The former Philadelphia Eagles center called his own manhood “more like an ornamental bush.”
And when it became clear that Travis wasn’t going to comment further, Jason replied, “But that song is great. The funny beat to that song is great and it’s right up my alley, so very well done. I think it’s a great song.”
“Inserting wood allusions always seems childish to me.
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“Wood” begins with references to bad luck and superstition and finding a life partner. It begins with Swift switching to the post-chorus and talking about Travis’ BDE.
Swift has several songs on the album dedicated to her romance with Travis, including “Opalite” and “wi $h li $ t,” but “Wood” is packed with a bit of an R-rated dog-end and a new double entendre for the singer.
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“Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He attacked me and opened my AIDS / Redwood tree, it’s not hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thigh,” she sings.
The topic of conversation continues in the second verse. This time, Swift associates Kelce’s masculinity with “hard rock”, singing, “Girl, you don’t need to catch the bouquet/You don’t need to know that hard rock is on the way.”
The song’s lyrics reveal Swift talking about her future husband in a cheeky reference to the New Heights podcast on the second pre-chorus.
“And I’ll admit, I was a little superstitious / My curse was broken by your magic wand / It’s like you and I are making our own luck, we’re making our own luck / ‘Masculinity (Masculinity) / I don’t have to knock on wood,'” she sings.
Swift revealed that her mom, Andrea, was thinking about the track in a recent interview with Siriusxm’s The Morning Mash Up.
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“I think she thinks the song is about superstition, popular superstition, and it absolutely is,” she said. “That’s the joy of double entender.”
“That song, you can read that song for that song and it just runs over their head. That song you see in that song what you want to see in that song,” Swift added.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Swift vowed that the song began with innocent intentions, noting that she had an idea for a “song that was like a throwback, a timeless song.”
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“I got there. We started a vibe, and I don’t know,” she said with a laugh. “I don’t know how I got here, but I love this song.”