Taylor Swift just dropped her newest album The Life of a Showgirl on Friday, October 3 — and it features perhaps her steamiest song yet, “Wood.”
The new tune appears to be a nod to Swift’s fiancé Travis Kelce’s off-field performance. Need I say more? But hilariously enough for Taylor’s mom, Andrea Swift, the meaning seems to have flown right over her head.
In a new interview on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up, the “Love Story” singer was asked what her mother thought of the cheeky track.
“I think she thinks that song is about superstitions — popular superstitions — which, which it absolutely is,” Taylor said, playfully referencing the song’s surface-level nods to knocking on wood, seeing black cats, stepping on cracks, and wishing on falling stars.
In the first verse, Swift sings: “Daisy’s bare naked, I was distraught / He loves me not / He loves me not / Penny’s unlucky, I took him back / And then stepped on a crack / And the black cat laughed.”
While the verses and chorus seem innocent enough, the post-chorus takes a decidedly more suggestive turn. “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me and opened my eyes / Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs.”
Taylor even sneaks in a wink to Kelce’s podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, singing, “New Heights of manhood / I ain’t gotta knock on wood.”
Apparently, Andrea Swift didn’t catch the obvious innuendos. “That’s the joy of the double entendre,” Taylor told the SiriusXM hosts.
“You can read that song to people and it just goes right over their heads. You see in that song what you want to see.”
At another point in the interview, the 35-year-old spoke about how she decides when to use curse words in her lyrics.
“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.
Taylor continued saying, “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.”
