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The Life of a Showgirl is finally in our ears, and oh boy, does the internet have thoughts. Already, Swifties are picking up Easter eggs to decode.

From cheeky nods to Taylor's relationship with fiancé Travis Kelce to rumoured celebrity drama with Charli XCX and suspected friendship rifts with Blake Lively, there's a lot to unpack.

Now, of course, Taylor hasn't actually confirmed any of this, but Swiftie sleuths believe they're connecting the dots.

We've done the hard work for you and rounded up all the Easter eggs in one place.

First, watch a snippet of The Spill hosts chat about Blake Lively and Taylor Swift's friendship. Post continues below.

Her friendship with Blake Lively.

When the track list came out, everyone was wondering if 'Cancelled' or 'Ruin The Friendship' would give insight into where Taylor stood in her relationship with Blake Lively.

'Ruin The Friendship' surprised us. The heartbreaking track isn't about a friendship fight at all. Instead, it's about a loved one Taylor lost and how she regrets losing touch and never showing them how much she cared. (Fans believe it's about her late school friend Jeff Lang, who died in 2010.)

Meanwhile, 'Cancelled' has lived up to expectations. Taylor sings about a friend of hers getting cancelled by society — a feeling the pop star knows all too well. It's why they can always count on her friendship, regardless of what happens to them in the public eye, according to the track.

"Did you girlboss too close to the sun? / Did they catch you having far too much fun?" she sings in the pre-chorus.

She doesn't name names (duh) and it could be Taylor speaking generally about how everyone she's friends with ends up in the firing line. But it hasn't taken fans long to link the track to Blake, who's been caught in a very public legal feud with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni for months. Taylor even got dragged into the case.

Cancelled is definitely about Blake lively. “Welcome to my under world” aka Taylor knows the feeling of being witch-hunted

— ⚜️ (@asamibeamer) October 3, 2025

In the chorus, Taylor sings: "Good thing I like my friends cancelled / I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal / Like my whisky sour / And poison thorny flowers."

One fan was quick to point out Blake was in fact the face of Gucci at one point. She was the face of the fragrance for the Gucci Premiere in 2012 and also appeared in a short film for the brand that year.

Reading literacy is so dead w people saying cancelled ‘might’ be about blake lively. Girl was the face of Gucci, did the flower movie and had her own brand of sours. Might as well name drop come on now

— Christine (@damnitchristine) October 3, 2025

"Did you make a joke only a man could? / Were you just too smug for your own good?" could also be a nod to all the old clips of Blake people dug up where she made jokes that people said were mean, yet a man likely would've got away with.

Taylor hasn't been seen with Blake since the messy legal row kicked off, sparking rumours the pair were no longer friends.

Rumours have swirled that Taylor and Blake's friendship has cooled off. Image: Getty.

It's worth mentioning that the album was written during her Eras Tour, which wrapped in December 2024 — a few weeks before Blake first accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and things turned ugly. So there's a chance it's not directly about the It Ends With Us legal saga.

But there's a fair argument in the fact that Taylor knows how her fans think — she likely knew they'd link Blake to the song and realistically, she could've cut the track if they weren't still friends. So maybe this is her way of saying she'll always be there for the actress, despite the messy fallout.

After all, she says: "At least you know exactly who your friends are / we're the ones with matching scars."

The Fate of Ophelia.

The opening track references the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In the play, the young noblewoman is torn between her loyalty to her father and her love for Hamlet. Due to her lover's actions, Ophelia eventually descends into madness before her tragic drowning.

In the track, Taylor says she "might've drowned in the melancholy" if she hadn't met Travis.

"I heard you calling / On the megaphone / You wanna see me all alone."

This appears to be a reference to Travis calling out Taylor on his New Heights podcast, where he shared how he tried and failed to meet with her at an Eras Tour show.

Listen: All the secrets from Taylor's New Heights podcast appearance. Post continues below.

Before meeting Travis, Taylor had recently split from The 1975's Matty Healy.

Taylor seems to think Travis was her saving grace, teaching her what real love is.

"You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia / Keep it one hundred," she sings.

Travis was even in on the Easter egg game, teasing the lyric back on Instagram in July with the caption: "Had some adventures this offseason. Kept it [100]."

There are plenty of sweet nods to Travis. Image: Getty.

Petty Taylor is back.

We've already done an in-depth explainer compiling all the evidence that 'Actually Romantic' is about Taylor's rumoured feud with Charli XCX, but we'll quickly wrap it up.

Taylor is hitting back because, according to the lyrics, this person has wasted a lot of breath talking about her.

It comes off the back of Charli's own song 'Sympathy Is A Knife' that was released in 2024. In Charli's track, she talks about how the success of "this one girl", aka Taylor, makes her self-conscious and insecure.

Taylor's title is a clear nod to Charli, who has a song, 'Everything Is Romantic'.

The opening line of 'Actually Romantic' is a reference to the BRAT party era: "I heard you call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave".

Fans even noticed Taylor was holding an apple in the song's Spotify background. (A not-so-subtle nod to Charli's track 'Apple'.)

help she’s holding an apple in the Actually Romantic spotify canvas 🤭 #TSTheLifeOfAShowgirl pic.twitter.com/tpXQu011Zy

— vinoj ❤️‍🔥 (@MRPERFECTLYFlNE) October 3, 2025

It's a playful yet scathing clapback, and the internet is obsessed.

Father Figure.

Fans speculate the first half of the song is written from the perspective of Big Machine Records' Scott Borchetta, who sold Taylor's masters to Scooter Braun. The song then switches to Taylor's perspective on her reclaiming them.

One fan pointed out Taylor sings "I protected the family" six times, which could be a reference to the six albums she fought to reclaim her masters for.

Fans could be onto something here. Taylor has admitted the track was "written in character".

"That was a fun one to write," she told BBC 1 Radio. "It's a very different way of using the idea of a father figure to king of talk about power, power structures, and the flipping of the power dynamics."

Never in a million years would I have guessed that Father Figure would begin from the perspective of Scott Borchetta and end with Taylor reclaiming her power by becoming the father figure herself--this time, of the entire music industry

— My Tweets Ricochet (@tweetsricochet) October 3, 2025

A viral Ariana Grande meme turned lyric.

It's safe to say none of us were expecting this.

In 'Wood', Taylor appears to reference a viral Ariana Grande fan post from 2021.

If this is true, that lady is a comedic genius. No notes.

Taylor Swift appears to call back to a viral 2021 Ariana Grande fan post in her new song “WOOD”. pic.twitter.com/dHmduyNmrO

— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) October 3, 2025

'Opalite' shade.

The song is a sweet reference to Travis and Taylor's love story and the luminous calm that comes with finally finding the right person, with the title a nod to Travis's birthstone, opal.

"I had written down the word opalite because I learned that it's actually a manmade opal," she shared on Capital radio.

"Travis' birthstone is opal, so I've always fixed on that, I've always loved that stone."

The songwriter loved the metaphor behind it: "That it's a manmade opal and happiness can also be manmade, too."

But fans believe the love song also includes a sneaky dig at Travis's ex, Kayla Nicole.

Appearing to sing to her fiancé, Taylor says, "You couldn't understand it / Why you felt alone / You were in it for real / She was in her phone / And you were just a pose." Eek!

wait wait WAIT opalite isn’t just about taylor finding her own happiness, but about travis finding his happiness too 🥹 they’ve BOTH been through tumultuous relationships and they found happiness in EACH OTHER #TSTheLifeofaShowgirl pic.twitter.com/kD3eE99aXf

— ariana ♫❤️‍🔥 (@tscrazier) October 3, 2025

An on-stage 'Eldest Daughter' hint.

During the Eras Tour, Taylor started playing what fans believe to be the melody from 'Eldest Daughter' with a few different notes.

At the time, Swifties didn't know what the melody was from, but they had an inkling it could be something special.

"She was writing the song on stage right in front of us," one fan said.

Wait. This intro—is that Eldest Daughter? https://t.co/ZH04QItKNC

— Britt ❤️‍🔥 (@britt_swiftie13) October 3, 2025

The track list.

Even the tracklist has a sneaky Easter egg.

Taylor has since confirmed The Life of a Showgirl tracklist was in fact intentionally designed to look like the shape of The Eras Tour stage. Her mind!!

🚨| Taylor Swift confirms on Z100 that The Life of a Showgirl tracklist was intentionally designed to look like the shape of “The Eras Tour” stage!

“It took them a while to figure out that one.” pic.twitter.com/GkAU3ESJ9n

— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) October 3, 2025

A special outro.

The album outro is a special nod to Swifties. It features crowd noise from the last Eras Tour show in Vancouver.

"That always chokes me up because it transports me right back to that actual memory of standing on that stage for the last time on that tour that was so important to me, and the tour that really inspired this album," Taylor said.

Feature image: Instagram/taylorswift.