Taylor Swift released her raunchiest song yet with her track Wood from her new album The Life of a Showgirl.

The pop icon, 35, unveiled her highly praised album on October 3, featuring a boldly sensual track dedicated to her fiancé Travis Kelce.

Strewn throughout the entire song are lyrics about how the Kansas City Chiefs tight end finally broke her unlucky streak in love. 

And in the track, the newly engaged singer croons about how she ‘ain’t gotta knock on wood’ since she and her lover can ‘make our own luck.’ 

‘And baby, I’ll admit I’ve been a little superstitious / The curse on me was broken by your magic wand / Seems to be that you and me, we make our own luck.’

At one point, she even references the NFL star’s podcast with his older brother Jason Kelce as she sings in one of the pre-choruses of the song. 

‘New Heights of manhood / I ain’t gotta knock on wood,’ she sings, before adding that ‘His love was the key / That opened my thighs.’ 

Taylor Swift introduced her most daring song yet with “Wood” from her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” as seen with fiancé Travis Kelce in October 2024.

The pop icon, 35, released her much-awaited album on October 3, including a profoundly intimate track for Travis.

Even at the beginning of the song, she not-so-subtly references her and the football player’s bodies together. 

‘Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me / And opened my eyes.’ 

She sings: ‘Redwood tree / It ain’t hard to see / His love was the key / That opened my thighs.’ 

On the ninth track of the song, she also referenced their engagement. 

‘Girls, I don’t need to catch the bouquet, mm / To know a hard rock is on the way,’ Swift croons in the second verse of the tune.

Elsewhere in her album, she also sang about how finding love with Kelce saved her from tragedy in The Fate of Ophelia.

Numerous tracks on the 12-song collection tell their love tale, and in “Wi$h Li$t,” she expresses disregard for a lavish lifestyle, singing to him, ‘I just want you.’

She sings about wanting to settle down and have ‘a couple kids’ with her lover.

She even nods to the NFL player’s podcast with his brother Jason Kelce in one pre-chorus of the song, pictured in January 2024.

‘New Heights of manhood / I ain’t gotta knock on wood,’ she sings in one of the many songs dedicated to her fiancé in her new album

On the ninth track of the song, she also referenced their engagement. ‘Girls, I don’t need to catch the bouquet, mm / To know a hard rock is on the way,’ Swift croons in the second verse of the tune; pictured in August 2025

Even at the beginning of the song, she not-so-subtly references her and the football player’s bodies together. ‘Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me / And opened my eyes.’ She sings: ‘Redwood tree / It ain’t hard to see / His love was the key / That opened my thighs’

After meeting him, she sings about dreaming of starting a family with him at a house ‘with a driveway and a basketball hoop.’ 

She also sings about her lover in Opalite, which he previously said was his favorite track, as well as in Eldest Daughter and Honey. 

Her album release comes nearly two months after she made an appearance on her husband-to-be’s podcast New Heights and announced her new album. 

Just weeks later, she revealed that he proposed to her with photos from a romantic engagement shoot. 

‘I knew that he wasn’t crazy the first couple of times that we talked,’ she said on the podcast as she recalled how they first connected. 

‘I was just like, he’s truly getting to know me in a way that’s very natural, very pure, very normal. Also, just the way that he could make me laugh so immediately about normal things.’ 

She added, gushing about her partner: ‘Travis is like, he’s just a vibe-booster in everyone’s life that he’s in. He’s like a human exclamation point. He’s like when you take a picture on your phone and you push the enhanced color button, that’s like what you do to everyone’s life,’ she added. 

Her fans were diving into and analyzing their love story when the entire album leaked just hours before the official release in low-quality audio across Discord and other platforms. 

Strewn throughout the entire song are lyrics about how the Kansas City Chiefs tight end finally broke her unlucky streak in love. And in the track, the newly engaged singer croons about how she ‘ain’t gotta knock on wood’ since she and her lover can ‘make our own luck’; pictured in February 2024

Hours before The Life of a Showgirl officially dropped, all 12 tracks leaked online in low-quality audio across Discord and other platforms

Within minutes, Swifties were dissecting every verse, from the scathing to the swoon-worthy, sparking feverish speculation about whether she was singing about her fiancé Travis Kelce, or rumored industry rivals like Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo.

The record marks a major milestone for Swift: her first as an engaged woman, following Kelce’s romantic, garden proposal in August 2025.

It also ushers in a bold new era for the 14-time Grammy winner, who ditched her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff for the first time in over a decade.

Instead, she co-produced the album with pop powerhouses Max Martin and Shellback, pairing her sharpest storytelling with their high-gloss, hit-making touch.

Alongside the music, Swift unveiled a daring new visual aesthetic, embodying a sultry Vegas showgirl for the album’s imagery. 

The title itself, she revealed, was inspired by her days juggling her record-breaking Eras Tour, which spanned 21 months, and late-night studio sessions in Sweden.

‘I would do like three shows in a row, have three days off, fly to Sweden, go back to tour — I was physically exhausted but so mentally stimulated,’ Swift recalled on her husband-to-be’s New Heights Podcast over the summer. ‘I was just so excited to be creating.’ 

In August, Kelce teased to his listeners that he couldn’t stop ‘listening to this album’ and had ‘been dancing throughout the house’ to it. 

Within minutes, Swifties were dissecting every verse, from the scathing to the swoon-worthy, to decode if she was singing about her fiancé or rumored industry rivals like Charli XCX (seen in 2014)

The Life of a Showgirl follows Swift’s 2024 record, The Tortured Poets Department, which shattered records before it was even released

‘I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff,’ he assured Swifties. ‘It’s just so much fun to listen to.’ 

He also gushed his favorite track was Opalite. 

Kelce was reportedly only one of five people who have been granted access to the new album which has been kept under wraps in an encrypted folder.

Others include Swift’s formidable publicist Tree Paine, an unidentified studio engineer, and Max Martin and Shellback who both helped to produce the music.

The Life of a Showgirl follows Swift’s 2024 record, The Tortured Poets Department, which shattered records before it was even released.

Last month, Swift announced she was having a theatrical release party to celebrate her record, which will play across 540 AMC theaters this weekend. 

Fans will see the exclusive world premiere of the Fate of Ophelia music video, plus behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos and personal insights from Swift herself.

The special theatrical release is slated to be 89 minutes long. 

It is expected to rake in around $30-$50million, per Deadline – and presale tickets reached $15 million over the span of 24 hours since the event’s announcement.

Ticket prices sit at $12 – which was decided by the award-winning performer herself.

Taylor Swift’s biggest selling albums… so far

1989 (2014): 14 million

Fearless (2008): 11 million

Red (2012): 8 million

Taylor Swift (2006): 8 million

Currently only 2017’s Reputation and her debut album (pictured) – which was released in 2006 – are left to be re-released

The Tortured Poets Department (2024): 8 million

 

* Based on US domestic sales according to the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA)