'It really started out in a very innocent place': Taylor Swift insists she never intended Wood to be risque
Taylor Swift has claimed Wood, a song with obvious winks to her fiancé Travis Kelce's manhood, started out "very innocent".
Taylor Swift has claimed her racy song Wood from The Life of a Showgirl started out "very innocent".
Despite the obvious winks to her fiancé Travis Kelce's manhood, Taylor has claimed the track was intended to be "all superstitions".
Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she said her intentions for the track were: “I wanna do a throwback, timeless-sounding song, and I have this idea of ‘I ain’t gotta knock on wood’, and it would be all superstitions… it really started out in a very innocent place!”
She quipped: “I don’t know what happened, man.
“I got in there, we started vibing and I don’t know how we got here, but I love the song so much.”
In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, however, Taylor confessed that she wanted to showcase the "mischievous" and "flirty" side to her personality, especially after the seriousness of The Tortured Poets Department.
She said: "Making this album was really something I've been wanting to do for my entire career, because I have always wanted to have fun in this type of way. To have fun to exhibit mischief and be flirty, and fun, and make jokes, and get to have that side of my personality. That's a huge part of my personality.
" A lot of people who are friends with me and when we meet in person and stuff, people realise that, oftentimes, I get so serious or I'm really known for a lot of my sad songs, my cathartic songs or breakup songs or whatever because I love to write those things, but that's not the place I'm in in my life.
"So what I have left behind is something that really exhibits who I am in this moment and pays homage to the most important moment of my life, which was the exuberance and electricity of The Eras Tour."
She sings on Wood: “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.”
The X-rated track also includes the line, “the curse on me was broken by your magic wand.”
