{"id":54744,"date":"2023-11-17T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/drake-name-drops-taylor-swift-in-new-song-lyrics-explained\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:08:58","slug":"drake-name-drops-taylor-swift-in-new-song-lyrics-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/drake-name-drops-taylor-swift-in-new-song-lyrics-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Name-Drops Taylor Swift in New Song: Lyrics Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/drake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Drake<\/strong><\/a> is giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> her flowers via a surprising namedrop on his new album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor Swift the only n\u2014ga that I ever rated,\u201d Drake, 37, raps on his new song \u201cRed Button,\u201d released with his <em>For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition<\/em> album on Friday, November 17. \u201cOnly one could make me drop the album just a little later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics allude to Drake and Swift\u2019s ongoing battle to become the most decorated musician on the Billboard Top 100, as they are in the one and two spot.<\/p>\n<p>Drake and <strong>21 Savage<\/strong>\u2019s joint album, <em>Her Loss<\/em>, was pushed last year due to the release of Swift\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/taylor-swifts-new-album-midnights-every-lyric-easter-egg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Midnights<\/em><\/a> record. Initially, <em>Her Loss<\/em> was set to drop on October 28, 2022, but was moved a week later to November 4.<br \/>Swift\u2019s <em>Midnights<\/em> had been released on October 21, 2023, and fans were quick to speculate that Drake moved his release to allow Swift, 33, more time on the charts.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Midnights<\/em> took over charts upon its release, <em>Her Loss<\/em> pushed it from No. 1 on the album chart in November 2022. That being said, Swift\u2019s \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d was still in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, even after the release of <em>Her Loss<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon sharing his successes, Drake did get backlash after fans were convinced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/drake-throws-shade-at-taylor-swifts-midnights-success-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he threw some shade<\/a> at Swift over her <em>Billboard<\/em> chart success.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3438175\" style=\"width: 732px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:140%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Taylor Swift and Drake attend the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards on August 25 in New York City.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic for MTV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In November 2022, he shared an Instagram Story revealing that <em>Her Loss<\/em> was dominating the Billboard Hot 100 and covered had up the title of \u201cAnit-Hero\u201d with a series of emojis. At the time, fans accused him of being \u201cpetty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is hardly the first time Drake has pushed back one of his album releases. Earlier this year, something similar happened with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/drake-taking-hiatus-for-health-reasons-after-for-all-the-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>For the Dogs<\/em><\/a> album, which ended up being released around the same time as another one of Swift\u2019s records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/taylor-swifts-feuds-then-and-now-katy-perry-kanye-west-more\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Taylor-Swift-Feuds-pp.jpg?crop=408px%2C66px%2C1592px%2C899px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Taylor Swift Feuds\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Taylor-Swift-Feuds-pp.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/taylor-swifts-feuds-then-and-now-katy-perry-kanye-west-more\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span>Taylor Swift\u2019s Feuds: Where Are They Now?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift has not only made headlines for her chart-topping music over the years, but also her several high-profile celebrity feuds. In January 2022, Swift got into a social media argument with musician Damon Albarn after he claimed she shouldn\u2019t call herself a songwriter if she isn\u2019t the only creative credited on a track. \u201cI [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Initially, the record was set to be released on September 22. However, Drake revealed that he needed more time to complete the album, moving the release date to October 6.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOkay my dilemma I am faced with is I either cancel shows to finish the album or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show,\u201d he wrote in a message to fans on September 16. \u201cI owe you all these memories we are building and anywhere we have missed to date we will be spinning back for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift, for her part, dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-1989-taylors-version-vault-tracks-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em><\/a> on October 27. With both album releases, Drake put two weeks between his and Taylor\u2019s drops.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/drake-name-drops-taylor-swift-in-new-song-lyrics-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake is giving Taylor Swift her flowers via a surprising namedrop on his new album. \u201cTaylor Swift the only n\u2014ga that I ever rated,\u201d Drake, 37, raps on his new song \u201cRed Button,\u201d released with his For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition album on Friday, November 17. \u201cOnly one could make me drop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}