In the wake of the diss track, Charli XCX just liked a controversial meme about Taylor Swift

All eyes have been on Charli XCX and if she was going to respond to Taylor Swift following the release of Actually Romantic on Friday, widely interpreted as a diss track. The Life of a Showgirl track was the most talked about song on the album after lyrics leaked the day before the album dropped, notably how the song starts with the lyric “I heard you call me boring Barbie when the coke’s got you brave”. Charli XCX hasn’t commented on the situation with Taylor Swift since the song dropped, but she did just like a controversial meme post about Taylor Swift on Instagram and it’s caused chaos.

The entire saga context

Charli XCX last year released a song called Sympathy is a Knife, where she references being around a big pop star who makes her feel insecure about her success and says she hates seeing her backstage at her husband George Daniels gigs and forcing smiles. At this time, Taylor Swift was dating Matty Healy – in The 1975 with George Daniels.

It was quickly interpreted to be about Taylor Swift – but the song is more critical of Charli XCX with Taylor making her feel a type of way without doing anything malicious. About the track, Charli said ““People are going to think what they want to think. That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don’t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt.”

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Taylor also gave a complimentary quote gushing about Charli’s talent for that same interview. But now Actually Romantic came out, quickly interpreted to be about Charli XCX, and sees Taylor Swift write the savage diss lyrics “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave / High-fived my ex and then said you’re glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face/ Some people might be offended / But it’s actually sweet / All the time you’ve spent on me.”

Charli XCX likes controversial meme about Taylor Swift

Charli XCX hadn’t publicly addressed any drama with Taylor Swift following the track release – until fans clocked she liked the above post on Instagram. As screenshots circulated on Twitter, The Tab verified this directly and can confirm that Charli XCX has indeed liked the above post and the like was still showing at the time of publication. As per midday, the like has seemingly been removed and no longer shows.

The meaning behind the post is being speculated about online and what Charli XCX liking about it says about the pair’s relationship. The meme is responding to Taylor Swift showing off her engagement ring from Travis Kelce, and appears to be a comment on discourse surrounding Travis and his dating history.

The Tab has reached out to Charli XCX’s representatives for comment.

Taylor Swift explains what the Charli XCX diss track is really about when she wrote it

Taylor Swift released a version of The Life of a Showgirl where she discusses each track on the album, and explained more about Actually Romantic.

Taylor explains that it’s “a song about realising that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn’t know about. And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you’ve been living in their head rent-free and you had no idea.”

“It’s presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you but you take that and just accept it as love and you accept it as attention and affection, and how flattering that somebody has made you such a big part of their reality when you didn’t even think about this. It’s actually pretty romantic if you really think about it.”

Not doing much to quell the drama, I fear.

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