Inspired by William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and seemingly thanking her fiancé Travis Kelce for “saving” her, Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ is the first single from ‘The Life of a Showgirl.’ Here are the full lyrics—and what they mean.

Swift joined Jimmy Fallon on Monday to talk about "Showgirl," her recent engagement and reclaiming her master recordings.

When Taylor Swift released the track list for “The Life of a Showgirl,” many Swifties wondered if track No. 6, “Ruin the Friendship,” was about Blake Lively. And after listening, it’s safe to say it’s not. “Ruin the Friendship” talks about her high school self having a crush on a boy who already has a girlfriend — a la “You Belong With Me.”

Growing up in Generation Z, it’s nearly impossible to avoid Taylor Swift. Even if you’re not actively a fan of hers, she’s everywhere in the music industry and has been for nearly the past 20 years. Like it or not, she’s effectively become the face of music in this decade and is easily this century’s most commercially successful artist.

More than just a pop star, she’s a great songwriter who proves that mass appeal and lyrical subtlety can go together.

While others may be picking up what Swift is putting down, the 14-time Grammy winner explained in a recent SiriusXM Hits 1 interview that her mom, Andrea, thinks (or, perhaps, just wants to believe) that "Wood" really is just about superstitions.

This song has all the hallmarks of a great Taylor Swift song: lost love, heartbreak, a lying liar who lies, and a slow, melancholy melody. As Beauty Editor Beth Gillette boldy declarede, “loml” is “THE BEST PART OF TTPD. ”

The "Ruin the Friendship" lyrics explain Taylor Swift's journey with loss and regret — the song's warm, balmy sound belying its arrival as one of the most heartbreaking entries in her oeuvre.

Look back at five pivotal moments as the singer and songwriter prepares to release her 12th original studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

You don’t have to be a Swiftian scholar to interpret this as a direct riposte to Charli’s song “Sympathy is a Knife,” on which the Brat singer appears to allude to feeling uncomfortable around Swift when she was dating The 1975’s Matty Healy. Charli’s now-husband, George Daniel, is the band’s drummer.

P rior to this weekend, if you tried to picture Taylor Swift with dark brown hair, you’d likely conjure up an image of her “You Belong With Me” music video, in which the art