Followers say Taylor Swift used comic Caroline Timoney’s viral ‘girlboss too near the solar’ phrase

In Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, she has an oft-debated new tune, “CANCELLED!” The largest argument concerning the tune is who it is about (Blake Vigorous? Brittany Mahomes? Sophie Turner?). However one particular lyric has some questioning whether or not a viral TikTok meme apparently referenced within the tune may earn a payout for the creator who coined it.

Within the pre-chorus, Swift sings “Did you girlboss too near the solar? / Did they catch you having far an excessive amount of enjoyable?”

If that first line feels a bit acquainted to you, it is likely to be due to a viral 2021 TikTok wherein influencer and comic Caroline Timoney mentioned: “Pay attention, I can’t give any extra data, however I concern I could have girlbossed a bit too near the solar.” It at the moment has 7.5 million views.

In a video Timoney posted yesterday, the day after Swift launched her twelfth studio album, she mentioned, “I wakened this morning to find that my TikTok audio that I made as a sophomore in faculty – ‘I girlbossed too near the solar’ — was in a Taylor Swift tune. Am I her Shakespeare? Sure. Do I see us as co-writers? As fellow songwriters? Yeah, all of it, all the above. However I have not modified. I’ve forgotten a number of names of family and friends as a result of I am blowing up. This type of issues occur. However I’m genuinely so shocked.”

Whereas it is clear that almost all of Timoney’s video is in jest, lots of the feedback encourage her to “lawyer up” and “get that cash.” One commenter identified that the road “girlboss too near the solar” is a reference to Candace Owens who mentioned as a lot in a YouTube video from earlier this 12 months about Swift’s alleged involvement in Blake Vigorous’s lawsuit in opposition to Justin Baldoni. “However I got here up w the phrase,” Timoney wrote in a remark in response.

One copyright lawyer on TikTok, Rocky Retrograde, drew parallels between this and the scenario between Lizzo and Mina Lioness, who tweeted “I did a DNA check and came upon I am 100% that bitch” earlier than Lizzo launched her album Reality Hurts. Lizzo ended up giving Lioness a writing credit score on the tune. Retrograde — together with a lot of Timoney’s followers and commenters — advisable that Timoney attain out and attempt to do the identical with Swift.

Timoney didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Mashable.