Candace Owens thinks Taylor Swift is quoting her on her new song 'Cancelled!': 'I love it' (exclu...

The conservative commentator says she believes the singer is referencing her in the &34;Life of a Showgirl&34; track with the lyrics &34;did you girlboss too cl

The conservative commentator says she believes the singer is referencing her in the "Life of a Showgirl" track with the lyrics "did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

Candace Owens thinks Taylor Swift is quoting her on her new song 'Cancelled!': 'I love it' (exclusive)

The conservative commentator says she believes the singer is referencing her in the "Life of a Showgirl" track with the lyrics "did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

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Candace Owens in 2022; Taylor Swift performs for her Eras Tour in 2023. Credit:

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Candace Owens is taking credit for lyrics from Taylor Swift's new album, *The Life of a Showgirl*. **

The conservative pundit and author claims that Swift is directly quoting her when she sings, "Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?" on the track "Cancelled!," lifting a line from her podcast, *Candace.***

"The song is quoting Candace's [podcast] episode, 'The Taylor Swift Plot Thickens,' which detailed updates in the [Justin] Baldoni/[Blake] Lively saga that involved Taylor," a spokesperson for Owens said in a statement to *, *adding, "Candace will have more to say about Taylor in her upcoming book, *Make Him a Sandwich.*"**

Swift's representative had no comment.

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively at the Super Bowl in 2024.

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On the podcast episode, Owens claimed that the story of Lively and Baldoni's legal battle would "come to be known as the girlbosses who flew too close to the sun." At the time, however, Owens admitted that she did not coin the popular phrase, adding, "People say that. This is an example of that."**

In an exclusive statement to EW, Owens noted that she is a big fan of the line. "I love it," she says. "We have a small team, and we spent a great deal of time dedicated to that story, so we are celebrating the fact that Taylor Swift acknowledged it with her signature style of allusion."

She continued, "It's particularly amusing that I said the entire legal saga would one day be remembered as the story of someone who 'girl-bossed too close to the sun,' and now, thanks to Taylor's lyrical mastery, that day is today."**

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In July, Owens was one of several media personalities that Lively allegedly subpoenaed in an effort to gather evidence of an alleged smear campaign that Baldoni orchestrated against her.

The commentator shut down the claim at the time, saying, "I am just so offended, more than anything, that someone would think that I would accept payment to say something that I don't believe in, or that I would accept payment to say things without telling my followers that. In fact, the argument that's typically made in the press is that I can't be controlled. That's the problem with me, is that I don't dance for money."

Swift has also found herself repeatedly swept up in Baldoni and Lively's whirlwind legal proceedings, which started last December. On Sept. 12, the singer's lawyers filed in court a letter, which was reviewed by EW, that stated Swift "did not agree to a deposition" and had "no material role" in the lawsuit, but that she would be available to be deposed later "if forced."

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As its title suggests, "Cancelled!" finds Swift taking misogyny and cancel culture head-on, with her declaring archly, "I like my friends cancelled." Referencing her own cancellation, Swift later sings, "They stood by me / Before my exoneration / They believed I was innocent / So I'm not here for judgment, no."

While there's already been plenty of discussion online about whether the track is about Lively, it's worth noting that Swift says she wrote *The Life of a Showgirl* during the European leg of her Eras Tour, which ran from May to August of 2024. However, Lively and Baldoni's feud did not erupt in earnest until December 2024. (And hey, while we're on the topic, Swift's other new song "Ruin the Friendship" isn't about Lively, either!)

Taylor Swift poses for 'The Life of a Showgirl'.

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That said, Swift does set her sights on several other celebrities on* The Life of a Showgirl*. While she famously never reveals names, many have speculated that her song "Actually Romantic" seems to be a sarcastic response to Charli XCX's 2024 *Brat* song "Sympathy Is a Knife." In it, Swift talks about overhearing someone "call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave" and then telling her ex she's "glad he ghosted me," seemingly a reference to Swift's former beau Matty Healy.

Other fans and critics have suggested that Swift might be calling out Olivia Rodrigo, Scooter Braun, and/or Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta on the *Showgirl* track "Father Figure." The mob-boss-inspired song, which interpolates George Michael's 1987 hit of the same name, tells the story of a shift in power dynamics between a "young, wayward, lost-in-the-cold" singer and a wealthy benefactor.

"Whose portrait's on the mantel? / Who covered up your scandals? / Mistake my kindness for weakness and find your card cancelled," Swift sings. "I was your father figure / You pulled the wrong trigger / This empire belongs to me / Leave it with me / I protect the family."

*The Life of a Showgirl *is available now.**

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