Charli XCX took a cue from Taylor Swift by shaking it off when asked about their alleged feud, which bubbled to the surface with the release of the latter’s diss track, “Actually Romantic” from her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
When recently asked by Vanity Fair to comment on the song — which is said to directly address the hitmakers’ ongoing alleged rift — Charli “declined to comment on the situation,” per the outlet.
“Actually Romantic” contains lyrics that had fans linking Charli XCX’s “Everything is Romantic” to Swift’s track. “Wrote me a song sayin’ it makes you sick to see my face,” Swift, 35, sings.
“I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave,” Swift also sings, which fans interpreted to be a reference to Charli’s alleged drug use.
Swift said in an audio intro to the song for Amazon Music that “Actually Romantic” is about a “one-sided, adversarial relationship.” Swift also described the song as a “love letter to someone who hates you” in her accompanying “The Life of a Showgirl” cinema experience.
Charli, 33, fueled feud speculation when she performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend wearing a cropped T-shirt reading “Max’s Kansas City.”
Though the shirt is emblazoned with the name of a famous NYC nightclub where iconic artists and musicians have performed, 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 her Vanity Fair cover story, the Brat songstress seemingly threw shade at the “Cruel Summer” singer’s Monday announcement that she’d be releasing a six-episode documentary on her Eras Tour.
She told the magazine that she nixed an idea to do her own tour documentary, saying she “felt the market was already saturated with similar projects.”
“I feel like my problem with a lot of musician documentaries is, it often shows the musician coming up against some kind of opposition and eventually overcoming it to be the hero,” Charli told writer Anna Peele.
“And that’s just not been my experience, you know? Maybe it has been a lot of other people’s, and that’s awesome.”
She added that she would instead star in a 2026 mockumentary about a pop star’s days leading up to her first headlining concert tour, called “The Moment.” Charli said it’s not a “tour documentary or a concert film in any way, but the seed of the idea was conceived from this idea of being pressured to make one.”
“It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen,” she explained.
The former pals toured together during Swift’s “Reputation” tour in 2018.
