When Taylor Swift uncovered the titles of her 1989 (Taylor’s Variation) vault tracks, 1 term right away stuck out to supporters: “SLUT!” Published in all-caps, with an exclamation place, as if Swift was screaming the loaded expletive herself. The shocking tune title had Swifties wanting to know just what this daring new tune would sound like. Properly, Swift’s most bizarrely named monitor is lastly right here, and the lyrics are not exactly what fans predicted.

Turns out, “SLUT!” is really a adore tune, not the fiery takedown of the double requirements positioned on women that a lot of people today were being guessing. The lyrics notify the tale of a dreamy romance, in which Swift lets go of her inhibitions and stops caring how the media perceives her love lifestyle. In the chorus, she muses that she doesn’t treatment if folks call her a “slut,” because she’s so satisfied in her romance.

But if I am all dressed up / They may possibly as very well be looking at us / If they call me a slut / You know it could be value it for as soon as / And if I’m gonna be drunk / May as very well be drunk in adore

Like quite a few 1989 music, “SLUT!” is likely about Swift’s two-calendar year romance with Harry Designs. “Everyone needs him / That was my crime,” Swift sings in a verse, perhaps referencing the mania encompassing Variations in the early 2010s.

The configurations in the track are also notably incredibly flashy and substantial-profile, matching the star-studded flair of Swift and Styles’ time dating. Swift sings about “Flamingo pink / Dawn Boulevard,” “Hand prints in damp cement,” and “The tangerine, neon light” at diverse details in the song, portray a image of fluorescent Hollywood.

But the major concentrate of the song is how Swift has been mistreated by the basic general public for her enjoy life. She sings about owning a “break down” over “the sticks and stones they throw.” Even so, her boyfriend is ready to choose absent her anxieties: “In a entire world of boys / He’s a gentleman.”