Travis Kelce couldn’t hold back his laughter when his brother Jason asked the question on everyone’s mind: how does he feel about Taylor Swift’s very NSFW new song, “Wood”?
The Kansas City Chiefs star had a hilarious reaction to the cheeky track from Taylor’s latest album The Life of a Showgirl, which uses superstition metaphors to sing about, well, a certain part of Travis’ anatomy.
On the October 8 episode of their “New Heights “podcast, Jason kicked off the conversation with a grin. “‘Wood.’ Great, great soundtrack,” he told Travis while discussing Taylor’s album. The comment sent Travis into a fit of laughter as he agreed, “It’s a great song.”
Jason then upped the ante, asking, “Do you feel — not confident — do you feel cocky about the song ‘Wood’?”
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Travis, wearing a cream polo and headphones, tried to keep a straight face but ultimately played coy. “No,” he replied through laughs. “Any song, you know, that she references me in is very … I love that girl, what do you mean? Any song that she would reference me in any way…”
Jason wasn’t about to let him off easy. “The track is not about you but more specifically about your appendage,” he teased.
“What? I think you’re not understanding the song. No way!” Travis shot back, denying the theory.
Jason then mischievously quoted the lyric that had fans talking: “Redwood tree / Ain’t hard to see.” He added, “I thought redwood was a little … it was a generous word. If somebody wrote a song about me, it would be like ‘Japanese maple / sometimes can see,’” sending the studio into hysterics.
Taylor has kept things playful when discussing the track. In an Amazon Music interview, she described it as “a love story,” explaining, “[It’s] about using, as a plot device, popular superstitions [and] good luck charms.” She cheekily added, “That is the way I’ve explored this very, very sentimental love song.”
The song is filled with wink-wink moments, with lyrics like:
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“The curse on me was broken by your magic wand (Ah) / Seems to be that you and me, we make our own luck / New Heights (New Heights) of manhood (Manhood), I ain’t gotta knock on wood.”
Taylor even joked on SiriusXM’s Morning Mash Up that her mom Andrea thinks the song is just about superstitions. “She thinks that the song is about superstitions, which it absolutely is,” she said. “That’s the joy of the double entendre. You can read that song for people, and it just goes right over their heads.”
She added, “You see in that song what you want to see in that song.”
But for many fans, there was no reading between the lines — especially when Taylor sings, “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me and opened my eyes / Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs.”
