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This spicy Taylor Swift lyric was one of the most-viewed of 2025


AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JULY 05: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE)) Taylor Swift performs onstage during  "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Johan Cruijff Arena on July 05, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JULY 05: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE)) Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Johan Cruijff Arena on July 05, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
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Taylor Swift’s ode to Travis Kelce’smanhood raised eyebrows and had people double checking if they’d heard the song right.

Music database Genius released its year-end statistics earlier this week, and a risqué lyric from Swift’s song “Wood” off her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” was among the website’s most-viewed.

Which lyric in particular?

"He ah-matized me and opened my eyes," which Swift sings on the song’s bridge.

That lyric came in fourth place overall on the site, followed by "The Fate of Ophelia" in sixth place. And no surprise, Swift was the top artist on the site in 2025.

It’s kind of surprising the much spicier lyric “Redwood tree/It ain’t hard to see/His love was the key/ That opened my thighs” wasn’t in the top search, but maybe listeners were feeling bashful.

Or maybe more people listened to the “cleaner” version, which has some swapped lyrics.

Fans who went to theaters to watch “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” noticed a couple lyric changes, specifically “ah-matized” being changed to the just as clever “hypnotized.”

Swift gave a cheeky explanation before the song played, saying it’s about “superstitions” and nothing more.

On “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in October, Swift also commented on writing the song.

"I brought this into the studio, and I was like, ‘I want to do a throwback, kind of timeless-sounding song,’ and I have this idea about, like, ‘I ain’t gotta knock on wood,’ and we would knock on wood, and it would be all these superstitions," she explained.

Swift continued, "And it really started out in a very innocent place. [Laughs] You know, it started out I don’t know what happened, man."

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