Pop icon Taylor Swift recently got Anderson Cooper giggling like a teenage girl on New Year’s Eve as he read the words to the singer-songwriter’s spicy song “Wood” from her recent album “The Life of a Showgirl” via USA Today.
During CNN’s annual “New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen,” Cooper could be seen raising his eyebrows and expressed his astonishment over the song’s lyrics as his co-host Cohen sipped his drink, chuckled at the camera and encouraged the popular broadcaster to keep reading.
“You’re probably familiar with this song, I was not,” Cooper said about the song, to which Cohen responded, “Sweetie, yeah.”
As Cooper read the song’s lyrics, which include “Redwood tree his love was the key that opened my thighs” and “New Heights of manhood,” he continued to giggle with Cohen, leaving no chance to tease his pal.”Wood,” which is part of Swift’s 12th studio album, is clearly about Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, with mentions of his podcast “New Heights” and getting a “hard rock,” presumably her engagement ring.
While discussing the song on “The Tonight Show,” Swift joked that her writing process for the song started “in a very innocent place,” but that she doesn’t know “what happened, man.”
“I got in there, we started vibing, and I don’t know how we got here,” the singer told “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon.
Swift turns superstitions on their head in “Wood” with the line, “Seems to me that / you and me, we / make our own luck,” before rounding out the bumping beat with “his love was the key that opened my thighs.”
When asked on SiriusXM’s “Morning Mash Up” what it was like to play “Wood” for her mom, Swift joked: “I think that she thinks that that song is about superstitions, which it absolutely is.”
“That’s the joy of the double entendre,” she continued. “You can play that song for people, and it just goes right over their head. You see in that song what you want to see in that song.”
From January 1st, I count the days until I get to see Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen drunk again!
And that Anderson giggle and Andy while drunk out of his mind still so protective of Anderson.
Andy and Anderson friendship goals! #CNNNYE pic.twitter.com/P3TEqTZxdx
— Carmella (@Sussex5525) January 1, 2026
