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Taylor Swift has left fans speechless with the suggestive lyric about Travis Kelce in a new song.
On Wednesday (September 23), the 36-year-old songstress announced that The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore, a surprise expanded edition of her 2025 album, will be released on Friday.
The project features four brand new songs: 'Patient Zero,' 'Pink Clouding,' 'Babylon,' and 'Cleveland!' - the latter seemingly nodding to Kelce's hometown.
But one particular line in the track caught listeners off guard.
One lyric of the upbeat track includes: "The taste of me is acquired, but it's his favorite dish."
Many fans quickly took to social media to share their thoughts on the line, as one exclaimed: "THE TASTE OF ME IS ACQUIRED BUT ITS HIS FAVORITE DISH????????????? OHHH TAYLOR I LOVE IT WHEN YOUR DIRTY."
A second wrote: "The taste of me is acquired but it's his favorite dish" is insaaaaaane of her btw."
A third added: "The taste of me is acquired but it's his favorite dish oh they're FREAKYYYYYYYYYY."
This isn’t the first time Swift has caused a stir with risque lyrics that seem to be about her NFL beau, whom she married in July.
Her 2025 album, The Life Of A Showgirl, included the song 'Wood,' which opens with reflections on relationship struggles: "Unlucky streaks, broken mirrors, black cats."
Then the tone shifts when Swift credits her now-husband with changing her luck.
In an explicitly charged pre‑chorus she sings: "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."
Later, she ties conventional wedding imagery to sensuality: "Girls, I don’t need to catch the bouquet / To know a hard rock is on the way," before referencing Kelce’s podcast New Heights alongside "manhood".
The explicit language and erotic metaphors caught many listeners off guard, especially those accustomed to the songstress' more poetic or veiled expressions of romance.
"When the majority of your fans are 12 and 13, this is not the kind of lyrics you want them to be listening to," one commenter wrote on social media.
Another frustrated listener added: "All that money and no class," referencing concerns that younger fans - like her own granddaughter - are now singing lyrics they believe belong in an adult context.
The Grammy-winning artist revealed on Instagram that the four tracks were written with Max Martin and Shellback after she travelled to Sweden to celebrate the record-breaking success of her album.
"About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history," she wrote. "I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album."
"Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs."
"I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made," she concluded.
