Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has taken the world by storm and has had many people buzzing. Swift, who for a long time had a reputation for keeping her lyrics pretty clean, stepped out of her shell with this album, releasing what is arguably one of the raunchiest songs she’s ever written.
The song, called “Wood,” starts off innocently enough, discussing superstitions. Swift claims that her bad luck streak was broken when she met her fiancé, Travis Kelce. However, it goes on to include many sexual innuendos referencing Kelce. Some of these innuendos include “Redwood tree," “magic wand,” and “new heights of manhood.”
During an appearance on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mashup on Monday, host Nicole Ryan asked Swift about “Wood” and how her mom, Andrea Swift, reacted to hearing it for the first time.
Comically, the 67-year-old did not grasp the sexual innuendos in the song, and it appears that Taylor does not plan on enlightening her.
“I think that she thinks that that song is about superstitions, popular superstitions, which it absolutely is,” Taylor said.
She explained that “that’s the joy of the double entendre,” in other words, the lyrics can be understood in different ways.
“That song, you could read that song for people and it just goes right over their head,” the Grammy-winning artist said. “That song, you see in that song what you want to see in that song.”
During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Taylor talked to host Jimmy Fallon about the process of writing “Wood” and noted that she did not originally plan for it to be explicit in nature.
“It started out in a very innocent place,” she said. “It started out like...I don't know what happened, man. I got in there, we started vibing, and I don't know how we got there. But I love this song so much.”