Overview

• On The Life of a Showgirl, Swift sings in “CANCELLED!”: “Did you girlboss too close to the sun?”
• Comedian Caroline Timoney’s August 2021 TikTok used the line “I fear I may have girlbossed too close to the sun,” a viral audio with millions of views and tens of thousands of remixes.
• Timoney posted a playful reaction video to the album release and later wrote in a comment that she came up with the phrase.
• A spokesperson for Candace Owens told Entertainment Weekly the lyric quotes a January 2025 episode of Owens’ podcast discussing the Baldoni–Lively legal saga.
• Fans and legal commentators are urging Timoney to seek songwriting credit, citing the Lizzo ‘DNA test’ meme precedent, and Swift’s team has not publicly commented.