A musical artist naming their favorite song off one of their albums can be a weird thing. The main reason is that it might influence many listeners to make the track their favorite, too. Listeners might lose their objectivity if their favorite artist likes a certain tune.
This hasn't stopped Taylor Swift from giving her opinion of what her favorite song is on her recently released album, The Life of a Showgirl. The record dropped on October 3 and was met with mostly very favorable reviews. Swift, as we all know, doesn't make bad music.
Of course, every song on the album has merit. Perhaps Swift's own favorite will change over time. She might reflect on what a piece means and how it came to be, and learn to love that even more.
Taylor Swift lets fans know her favorite song on The Life of a Showgirl
But for now, according to NBC News, the pop icon says "Wi$h Li$t" is the best track on the record. It appears to be the last one recorded, but it is No. 8 on the tracklist.
Swift said, "I think it might be 'Wishlist.' It's a song that was actually the last song that we made for the album, and it was the song where, like, after we finished it, I was like, 'Oh, we're done. Like, we're good. We're done with this'...and it's a really dreamy song; it's a really romantic song...it details all these different things that people aspire to have in their lives. And then in the chorus it talks about what mine would be."
The chorus of the song is, "I just want you, huh/Have a couple kids, got the whole block lookin' like you/We tell the world to leave us thе (expletive) alone, and they do, wow/Got me drеamin' 'bout a driveway with a basketball hoop/Boss up, settle down, got a wish (Wish) list (List)I just want you."
Of course, Swifties will likely summarize that the chorus (and maybe the entire song) is about Swift's fiancé, Travis Kelce. The two were engaged earlier this year, but have been dating for two years. Of the songs about love and adoration on The Life of a Showgirl, we can assume they are all about Kelce and Swift's relationship.
Other tunes seem to be about completely different subjects, however. "Actually Romantic," for instance, might be a diss track about Charli XCX. This is a reaction to Charli's own diss of Taylor Swift with her 2024 song, "Sympathy is a Knife."