Is Taylor Swift’s currently romantic about Charli XCX? A retrospective of the friendship between them

Taylor Swift invited Camila Cabello and Charli XCX to open your tour Reputation in 2018, receiving both on stage every night for a version of “Shake It Off”. Charli Accompanied the entire tour, including on the dates of Australia and New Zealand that closed the season.

A year later, Charli He became headline because of an interview in which he talked about having opened to Swift. “I’m very grateful that she invited me to that tour,” he told Pitchfork. “But as an artist, I kind of felt like I’m going up on stage and waving to 5 -year -olds. I did it so much that she ended up consolidating my unlucky status, which today I was short today.”

Charli then clarified that he felt that the phrase had been taken from context, adding in the Twitter At the time: “I was doing a [tonelada] From concerts at 18+ clubs and then being on stage in front of all ages was new to me and made me address my performances with a totally new type of energy… I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity that was given to me. ”

2023: Taylor Swift starts dating Matty Health, from The 1975

The ways of Taylor and Charli crossed again in 2023, this time because of the The 1975.

At the time, Charli and your now husband, George Danielguitarist of the band, had been together for at least a year after taking the relationship in the Instagram in 2022. Swift started dating the vocalist of The 1975, Matty Healyafter weeks of speculation in May 2023, although they lasted only a few months together.

Yaly seemed to become the subject of several songs in THE TOTURED POETS DEPARTMENTincluding “Guilty as sin?”. She also seemed to approach the criticism she faced for dating Yaly in “I can Fix Him (no really I can). The couple would have ended in June 2023.

The romance of George and Charli He took a different direction: the two were engaged at the end of 2023 and got married in the summer of 2025. “I want to dance with George for always,” she wrote in the caption of some of her wedding photos.

June 2024: “Sympathy is a knife”

The unexpected Brat of Charli XCX She was sold as an album with less complexities than she intended to communicate throughout the tracks. But as much as she was “sending it” in “365”she also put her biggest insecurities under a microscope in “Girl, so confusing” (About how she and Lord they orbited each other before they resolved in the remix) and “Sympathy is a Knife”that many people thought they revolved around Swift.

In the first verse, she prepares the scenario: “This girl plays my insecurities/I don’t know if it’s real or if I’m freaking out.” Later, she gets a little more straightforward, singing: “I don’t want to see her in the backstage of my boyfriend/fingers crossed on the back, I hope they’ll end soon.”

The listeners were quick to connect with Swift and Yaly. Charli called Ariana Grande for Remix, but that did little to silence the rumors that Swift He was very deep under his skin.

June 2024: Charli explains “Sympathy is a knife”

Although Charli has not directly addressed whether “Sympathy is a Knife” refers to Swiftshe said in a post in Tiktok which was later deleted that there is no “DISS tracks” in Brat. She made the clarification after the lyrics of the album leaked, and also criticized the experience of being a “woman artist, where you are put against your colleagues but are also expected to be a friend of each person constantly. If you are not, you are considered a bad feminist.”

“I think it’s really human at times in your life to compare yourself with other people,” she said when explaining “Sympathy is a Knife” During a track-by-track Brat. “I think there is a lot of shame around it, and there is a lot of concern that you are not a person strong enough, or that you don’t know yourself well enough, or that you are deeply insecure if you do that. Maybe you are, but okay. You can’t be so hard with yourself, because the world is really cruel and really difficult, and envy is a natural emotion in people. Sometimes you have a days when you feel small or good.”

June 2024: Charli asks fans to stop screaming ‘Taylor died’

Charli XCX He scolded his fans after a show in Sao Paulo in June, where videos circulated showing the audience singing in choir “Taylor died”. In the Stories of Instagramshe begged them to stop: “People who do this, whether online or at my shows, please stop. It’s the opposite of what I want, and it bothers me that someone thinks there is room for it in this community.”

She added, “I won’t tolerate that.”

October 2024: Swift praises Charli in a cover report of Volture

In an interview for the magazine Volture, Charli deepened in the meaning of music “Sympathy is a Knife”. “This song is about me, my feelings, my anxiety, and the way my brain creates narratives and stories when I feel insecure. It’s about how I don’t want to be in these physical insecurity situations. Sometimes I looked at the stage and thought, ‘My God… I will never touch these places, never.’ It caused me jealousy. Matty and George. Both answered me: ‘Shut up. What are you talking about? ‘

In the same matter, Swift It was cited praising Charli. “Her composition is surreal and inventive, always. She simply takes a song to places that you would not expect, and she has done it consistently for over a decade,” he said Swift.

October 2025: launch of “currently romantic”

“I heard you call me ‘boring Barbie’ when cocaine gave you courage / greeted my ex and then said I was happy that he ignored me,” sings Swift In the first verse of your album song Showgirl. Quickly began online speculation, with many suspecting that the title was a reference to “Everything is romantic” of Charli. But “Sympathy is a Knife” It seems to be the main target: “He wrote a song telling me that makes you sick to see my face,” she continues, in a clear allusion to the track. “Some people may feel offended / But it’s actually cute / all the time you spent with me.”

Swift It is rarely vague. How many artists sold vinyls full of white powder? The verse “How many times your boyfriend said / ‘why are we always talking about her?’” Sounds like a replica Charli Singing: “George He says I’m just paranoid / says he just doesn’t see, he’s so naive. ”However, other attacks on music seem to come from private interactions.“ You think it’s bad, baby / stop talking bullshit with me / sounded aggressive, but / looks like you’re flirting with me ”, sings Swift. “I follow my life, God is my witness that I do not provoke.”

In a track analysis, Swift clarified the song, saying: “‘Currently romantic’ It is about realizing that someone else was in a kind of unilateral rivalry with you, something you didn’t know, and suddenly it starts to go too far. She begins to show you that, in fact, you were living with rent on her head and you didn’t even imagine – and it manifests yourself as a kind of resentment or problem with you. ”She concludes that she accepts it as“ attention and affection, and how flattering someone has made you such an important part of her reality, even if you didn’t think of her ”.