The old Taylor Swift spoke in ambiguous allusions and fairy-tale rhymes (she sometimes still does), but the new Taylor does not mince words. She began her Reputation period killing off her previous iterations. And New Taylor now stands emboldened to speak her mind — the shadier the better. Throughout her new album, she gives a microphone to what most of us with a reputation still left to protect would only whisper. (Including her first recorded four-letter expletive.) Here’s every venomous word, presented in order of appearance, with some wild speculation as to whom she’s shading.
“I Did Something Bad”
“I never trust a narcissist / But they love me so I play ’em like a violin / And I make it look oh so easy / ’Cause for every lie I tell them, they tell me three / This is how the world works / Now all he thinks about is me.”
Victim: Kanye, but also any other man she’s played.
“If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing / I don’t regret it one bit, ’cause he had it coming.”
Victim: Men. Ban ’em all.
See all the Shade HERE
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