Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” Lyrics Decoded

By Sierra Marquina

August 25, 2017

Photo credit: www.taylorswift.com

Taylor Swift came to slay with new track “Look What You Made Me Do.” The Grammy-winning songstress premiered the song on Thursday, August 24, and didn’t hold back when it came to regaining the throne. 

In the song, Swift seemingly takes aim at Kanye West.

Swift starts out the track by point blank acknowledging her feud with West, specifically alluding to Kim Kardashian’s now infamous Snapchat audio leak.  

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“I don’t like your little games / don’t like your titled stage / the role you made me play of fool / no, I don’t like you,” Swift sings, seemingly referring to West’s Saint Pablo tour stage. “I don’t like your perfect crime / how you laugh when you lie / you said the gun was mine,” she continues. “… But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time … I got a list of names and yours is in red underline.”

In another verse, she acknowledges West’s “Famous” music video. (Some fans are also convinced they can hear fellow frenemy Katy Perry’s name in the verse. Twitter has also pointed out that Swift samples Peaches "Operate" in "LWYMMD." "Peaches" is the song in Mean Girls when Regina George burns Lindsay Lohan's character Katy ... )

“I don’t like your kingdom keys they once belonged to me / you asked me for a place to sleep / locked me out and threw a feast.”

Swift also acknowledges — of course — karma. 

"The world moves on another day another drama, drama … all I think about is karma … Maybe I got mine, but you’ll all get yours,” she sings in the highly anticipated track. 

And in case you didn’t already catch Taylor’s new vibe, the songstress confirms a whole new Taylor hath arrived. 

“I’m sorry the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now,” she says on the track. “Why? Oh, cause she’s dead.”

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Listen and watch the lyric video above.

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