While you were fixated on the redwoods and magic wands of Taylor Swift’s ode to fiancé Travis Kelce’s wang on “Wood,” I was thinking about a different Life of a Showgirl track. Specifically, this line in “Actually Romantic”: “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave.” Hearing Swift mention the drug, even as a way to (probably) diss Charli XCX, felt transgressive. Charli herself talks about coke in her music, though it’s coded: The “365” refrain “bumpin’ that” could be about a house beat, a bump of blow or both; “Shall we do a little key? Should we have a little line?”...

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