Charli XCX took a cue from Taylor Swift and brushed it off when asked about their alleged feud, which surfaced with the release of Taylor Swift’s diss track “Actually Romantic” from the singer’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
When recently asked by Vanity Fair for comment on the song – which is said to be a direct reference to the hitmakers’ ongoing alleged feud – Charlie “declined to comment on the situation,” the paper reported.
“Actually Romantic” includes lyrics that fans associate Swift’s track with Charli XCX’s “Everything is Romantic.” “You wrote a song about how you feel sick when you look at my face,” Swift, 35, sings.
“Coke gives me courage and I heard you call me ‘boring Barbie,'” Swift sings, which fans interpreted as a reference to Charli’s alleged drug use.
Swift said in the song’s intro audio for Amazon Music that “Actually Romantic” is about “a one-sided, adversarial relationship.” Swift also described the song as a “love letter to the people who hate you” in the film A Showgirl’s Life.
Charli, 33, fueled speculation of a feud over the weekend when she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” wearing a cropped T-shirt that read “Max’s Kansas City.”
The shirt is embroidered with the names of famous New York nightclubs where iconic artists and musicians have performed, but many believed it was a subtle response to “Actually Romantic,” especially since Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, plays for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Elsewhere in Vanity Fair’s cover story, songstress Brat appears to throw shade at Monday’s announcement that the “Cruel Summer” singer will be releasing a six-episode documentary about her Elas tour.
She told the magazine that she abandoned the idea of producing her own tour documentary because she “felt the market was already saturated with similar projects.”
“I think my problem with a lot of musician documentaries is that they’re often about musicians facing some kind of opposition and ultimately overcoming it and becoming heroes,” Charli told author Anna Peel.
“And that’s not my experience. It’s probably a lot of other people have too. That’s great.”
She added that she would instead star in the 2026 mockumentary “The Moment,” about the pop star’s days leading up to her first headlining concert tour. Charlie said this was “by no means a tour documentary or a concert film, but the seed of the idea came from the pressure of having to make this.”
“It’s fiction, but it’s the most realistic depiction of the music industry I’ve ever seen,” she explained.
The former friends toured together during Swift’s 2018 “Reputation” tour.
