Decoding Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: A guide to the references on her new album

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For the most devoted audience, Taylor Swift, a new album means new opportunities for decoding Easter eggs in its texts and musical clips. The 12th studio album Pop Superstar, which fell at midnight last night, has no shortage of hints and links to its public life and discography.

Many of them are opaque, showing enough to inspire the theory of many fans. Other specific – obvious names and places that should be explored.

Here is a guide on some links and how they relate to pop stars.

Elizabeth Taylor

Lyrics: “This view of Portofino was on my mind / when you called me at Plaza Athenee”

Meaning: When Swift announced her new album, she did it with the introduction make up She calls the shadows Portofino Orange Glitter after she puts on the color on the stage during the last part of her ERAS round. “I always liked it,” she said about the shade during her first appearance on New heightsA popular podcast, focused on football organized by her groom, Travis Kels and his brother Jason.

Fans are fanatical in relation to the new Taylor Swift album. (Republic Records/Associated Press)

“This is like what my life felt. And this album about what happened behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour. ” She and Bo Kels were seen last year on Lake Como, Italy, but it is unclear whether they spent time in the neighboring Portofino. In addition, the standard version of her album is available at Sweat and Vanilla Perfume Portofino Orange Vinyl.

As for Plaza Athenee? This is a luxurious hotel in Paris.

Lyrics: “Be my new -york, when Hollywood hates me”

Meaning: Both locations appear in writing Swift songs. Among them: Welcome to New York, Since 2014 1989, And White horse From 2008 FearlessShe also owns the property in both places.

Lyrics: “Baby, I would have exchanged my career so that someone trusted – just joking”

Meaning: In August of this year, Swift announced her engagement with Kelze, publishing a carousel of images on Instagram.

Fans with eagle eyes noticed that the ring was not the only jewelry she showed. She also had a Cartier watch.

Man and woman hug in the garden filled with flowers
Photo from Instagram profile Taylor Swift, which she posted on August 26, 2025. (@Taylorswift/Instagram)

Lyrics: “We got to the best stand in MUSSO & FRANK's”

Meaning: Since the opening of Musso & Frank Grill in 1919, he became a hot point for celebrities in Los Angeles, embodying the kind of Hollywood glamor of the old school, which inspired The life of the dance artwork.

Lyrics: “All my white diamonds and lovers are forever”

Meaning: The song is called Elizabeth Taylor After the classic Hollywood star, which in 1991 created its own perfumes called White Diamonds.

Drive friendship

Lyrics: “You go, 85 / Gallatin -Road and the beach of the lake”

Meaning: There are several Gallatin roads in the United States, but given another lyrics in the song, this probably refers to the street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, the suburbs of Nashville, where Swift spent its teenage age.

Lyrics: “But, as the song of 50 cents played”

Meaning: A link to 50 cents additionally implies that this song is rooted in the teenage years of swift in Aughts when the rapper was in the midst of its popularity. The song also mentions “graduation” and “second period”, which makes it clearly related to a high school.

Lyrics: “When I left school, I lost your account / Abigail called me with bad news / Goodbye”

Meaning: Ebigail belongs to the best friend of Swift Ebigail Anderson, with whom she studied at Hendersonville secondary school. This marks the second time when Ebigail is mentioned in the discography of Swift: the first is a defiant effect Fifteen from FearlessField

Watch | Taylor Swift announces a new album on Tvis Kels's podcast in August:

Taylor Swift announces a new album on the podcast of Travis Kels

Pop-Suppel Taylor Swift announced her new album The Life of A Showgirl in a teaser for the podcast of her boyfriend Travis Kels and a link to a website for preliminary orders, but without a release date.

Wood

Lyrics: “Redwood wood / it's not difficult to see”

Meaning: In October 2023, Swift and Kels suddenly appeared on Saturday evening on the air For the episode of the premiere of the season in which the host of Pete Davidson and the musical representation of Ice Spice, a friend for Swift, participated. After, SNL Actor Bowen Jan called a pair of “tallest people in the world” on Bodybuilders He is a co -author with comedian Matt Rogers. “I see them together, I go:“ I'm in the forest forest. ”

Lyrics: “New heights of masculinity”

Meaning: New heights It is a direct reference to the Squad of the same name Kels.

Taylor Swift sings during the first of three concerts at BC Place in Vancouver, British Colombia, on Friday, December 6, 2024.
Swift sings during the first of three concerts at BC Place in Vancouver on December 6, 2024. (Bin nelms/CBC)

Honey

Lyrics: “Summertime Spritz, Pink Sky”

Meaning: The physical variants of the album were a huge part of Swift's The life of the dance deployment, and in a sense they appear in the texts HoneyThe field of the color of its exclusive release of vinyl with the aim The crowd is your king The publication was described on the Internet as Summertime Spritz Pink Shimmer.

Lyrics: “Wintergreen Kiss, all mine”

Meaning: This line belongs to another of its options: A collection of brilliant errorsWhich is available in Vinily with a flicker of purple flicker and more relevant, Wintergreen and Onyx Marbled Vinyl. (Violet is mentioned in Elizabeth TaylorLike “ONYX” in Call.)

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