On October 3, 2025, Billionaire Music Superstar Taylor Swift dropped her much anticipated Life of a Showgirl album. In the first 8 days, Life of a Showgirl streamed more than a billion times on Spotify. The most ever. The album had 384 million streams across all on-demand US platforms like Apple Music and Amazon Prime. According to Billboard, Taylor had more than 3.4 million pure sales (physical and digital). The most ever to date. Taylor Swift might be the next Beatles. She’s absolutely crushing it.
Wi$h Li$t is my favorite song off her album. Taylor Swift is the great singer and concert performer. Still, she might be the greater songwriter. Wi$h Li$t is that great love song. It’s about the great love of her life, Travis Kelce. Travis Kelce is the 3-time Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs Tightend and future First Ballot NFL Hall of Famer. He’s Taylor’s fiancé. Taylor is in love with Travis as she sings Wi$h Li$t. She’s happy in the moment. Happy now.
In Love Story (2008), 16-year-old Taylor wrote about her dream love story. In Slut (2023), she wrote about the painful shade she got about her ex-lovers. Would Taylor have gotten that kind of shade, if she were a man? Just asking.
In Wi$h Li$t (2025), Taylor is whimsically in your face, mocking materialistic culture. She sings, “They want that critical smash Palme D’or and an Oscar on their bathroom floor. They want it all.”
In the poignant refrain, Taylor sings:
And they should have what they want.
They deserve what they want.
Hope they get what they want.
I just want you.
Have a couple kids.
Got the whole block looking like you.
We tell the whole world to leave us the fuck alone.
And they do.
“I just want you.” Made me cry. Taylor just wants Travis. He’s her Wi$h Li$t. Taylor’s evolution from Love Story to Slut to Wi$h Li$t is sublime.
Taylor sings:
I hope I get what I want.
Cause I know what I want.
I just want you.
Taylor and Travis are in love. They love each other. She just wants him. He just wants her. They are happy in the present. The present is all that we have. We all want to be happy in life. I know I do.
I’m 63 years old. I’m old. I’m still on the journey to fall madly and deeply in love with the woman, who will love me back the same way. Travis Kelce is tall, rich, and handsome. I’m not. Still, if Travis can find his Taylor Swift, maybe it’s possible I can, too. Who knows? Lightning could strike.
Taylor Swift has literally over a billion fans, who love her. Still, Taylor just wants Travis. She gets it. I really don’t want hundreds of people, who love me. I just want the woman, who loves me back.
In Writer and Director Martin Brest’s Meet Joe Black (1998), Anthony Hopkins played dying billionaire Bill Parish, who tells his daughter Susan, played by Claire Forlani:
Cause the truth is, honey, there’s no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven’t lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.
I try. I live.
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