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reputation (Music)
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Reputation | |
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Reputation (stylized reputation) is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 10, 2017, as her final album with Big Machine Records.It marks a shift from the dreamy Synth-Pop of her previous album, 1989, to heavier electropop with more prominent Hip-Hop influences and darker lyrical themes that center around fame and celebrity, public image, and the dangers of mistaking reputation for reality. Another major theme is her budding romance with her boyfriend Joe Alwyn in the midst of the chaos and her worsening reputation. It is, for lack of better words, a singularly meta album.The album became the second highest-grossing album of 2017 (the single highest in the US), selling over a million copies in its first week and 4.5 million total, additionally reaching #1 in 13 countries. It was also nominated for Best Vocal Pop Album at the 61st Grammy Awards. A concert film of the Reputation Stadium Tour, at the time the highest grossing tour ever in North America, was released on Netflix on December 31, 2018. | |
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Dropped link to Chicago: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: This album features Taylor's most overtly sexual lyrics yet, and the music videos show her in much more revealing outfits—one scene in "Look What You Made Me Do" has her dressed as a Dominatrix! | |
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Love Is a Drug | |
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Love Is a Drug: "Don't Blame Me": | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Considering its first promotion was a set of snake gifs and its first single was the lyric video for "Look What You Made Me Do" (a completely different aesthetic from anything her work had incorporated before), it's no surprise the album was billed as such. The sound is objectively darker, especially in the first half, and the lyrical themes are more serious (including mentions of alcohol and more explicit sexual references), but the album's conclusion with "Call It what You Want" and "New Year's Day" begs the question whether Swift ever really went dark ... or just wanted to show us she could. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Her aesthetic, at least during the first half of the album, became noticibly darker to suit the Darker and Edgier new sound. | |
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Not-So-Abandoned Building | |
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Not-So-Abandoned Building: In the "...Ready for It?" video, the robot-Taylor is being kept in what appears to be an abandoned shopping mall, full of graffiti and broken escalators. | |
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Title Drop | |
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"This is why we can't have nice things, darling." | |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things | |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things." | |
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Happy Rain | |
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Happy Rain: The music video for "Delicate" ends with Taylor joyfully dancing in a rainstorm, rushing off to meet the person she's singing to. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Heist is a repeated motif throughout the album. There's the Outlaw Couple in "Getaway Car," the scene from the "Look What You Made Me Do" video where she and her girl squad rob a bank in cat masks, and the second verse of "...Ready For It?": This is possibly a response to detractors accusing her of greed after the Apple Music Letter debacle. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "I Did Something Bad," "Look What You Made Me Do," and "Getaway Car." | |
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all lowercase letters | |
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all lowercase letters: the album's stylized title. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: To the point where it's sometimes difficult to tell how much of the album is authentic and how much is parody of the public's image of her ... Which is precisely the point. reputation seems to have been the product of Swift tiring of contorting herself to keep everyone happy—being just authentic enough—and, as seen in the "Delicate" video, just going, "F*ck it!" "I Did Something Bad" is all about how she's (perceived as) a remorseless, unfeeling Gold Digger. Virtually all of the video for "Look What You Made Me Do" is self-parody. First Swift portrays herself as a vengeful ghoul literally risen from the dead out of petty spite. Later she is a lavishly dressed paparazzi whore posing for the press after a stylized car crash. Later, her new reputation incarnation appears atop a writhing mountain of Taylors in her costumes from previous videos, viciously jockeying for the top position. At the end of the song, various Taylors appear onstage before an applauding crowd, each embodying a different "flaw" the media has blamed her for, bickering while a central Taylor timidly requests: | |
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Revenge Ballad | |
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The Revenge Ballad "Look What You Made Me Do" says: | |
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In the Hood | |
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Two versions of Taylor appear together in the music video for "...Ready For It?": A hooded, black-clad underworld version, and a naked-but-sexless robot version sealed in a glass case, completely at the mercy of the other (who is in the end revealed to also be a robot). Robo-Taylor goes through various transformations, alluding to previous personalities or eras, all futile—until she shatters the glass (and the other Taylor) with her voice. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: It has been suggested that the repetition of "Think about the place where you first met me" in "Getaway Car" is meant to allude to the Met Gala where she met both Tom Hiddleston and Joe Alwyn, whom the song seems to be about. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: The album contains multiple references to drinking and getting drunk (a topic Swift's lyrics had formerly avoided), especially in "Gorgeous," where the narrator is implied to get drunk to distract herself from her feelings for the song's subject. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Swift is shown in black and white, half obscured by newsprint. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: As with her previous two albums, Swift reinvents her musical style in reputation. She even raps! | |
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Good Bad Girl | |
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Good Bad Girl: Referenced in "So It Goes...": | |
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Turn the Other Cheek | |
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Turn the Other Cheek: Subverted in "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things": | |
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Covered in Kisses | |
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Covered in Kisses: "So It Goes...": | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: As usual for Swift, many of these songs and videos contain nods to lyrics and themes from her previous work. The "list of names" in "Look What You Made Me Do" is reminiscent of her "long list of ex-lovers" ala "Blank Space"—only this time, it's a hit list. One of robot-Taylor's incarnations in the "...Ready For It?" video rides a white horse. Her legion of plastic dominatrixes in the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video evokes her action team in "Bad Blood." "And all the pieces fall / Right into place" from "So It Goes..." echoes "Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place" from one of her most personal and enduringly popular songs, "All Too Well" from Red. The motif of cars—expensive cars, getaway cars, car crashes—has always been one of her favorites. "Red": | |
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Russian Reversal | |
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Russian Reversal: "I don't trust nobody, and nobody trusts me." | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things": | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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It's also something of a Spiritual Successor to 1989's "Bad Blood." | |
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World of Symbolism | |
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World of Symbolism: The music videos. From the graffiti to the costumes to the juice boxes and thumb rings, virtually everything that appears onscreen can be mined for hidden meaning. | |
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Loss of Identity | |
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Loss of Identity: A theme of the album is how one's true personality can get buried or even edged out entirely by the public image. There's a lot of contrast between "Taylor, the pop star" and "Taylor, the person." In the video for "Delicate," this is shown by having Taylor become invisible to everyone around her — and her being unable to see her own reflection. | |
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Grave Humor | |
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Grave Humor: The beginning of the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video shows an Old, Dark House and Creepy Cemetery from above, before focusing in on one of the gravestones, which proclaims: | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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"Look What You Made Me Do" and its Create Your Own Villain conceit. | |
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Rock-Star Song | |
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Rock Star Song: The Album. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: For the Reputation World Tour, she removed the verse of Future and Ed Sheeran on "Endgame". She also doesn't have "So It Goes..." and "New Year's Day" on the permanent setlist. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Its Central Theme is reputation. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: "I Did Something Bad" and its bridge, "they're burning all the witches," a phrase which can also be seen graffiti'd on the side of a staircase in the video for "...Ready For It?". | |
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Concept Video | |
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Concept Video: The videos to "...Ready For It?", "Delicate," and "Look What You Made Me Do." | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Runs the whole gauntlet from the album's cynical beginning to its idealistic end. | |
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Pop Punk | |
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Pop Punk: Believe it or not, "Look What You Made Me Do" has some elements of the genre. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: In "...Ready For It?", "Touch me and you'll never be alone" can be taken to mean both "I'll always be with you" and "Since I am in the spotlight, touch me and they will come for you, too." | |
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Warts and All | |
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Warts and All: The "Delicate" video shows Taylor, realizing that no one can really see her anyway, embracing her authenticity, warts and all, through the metaphor of some extremely awkward dancing. | |
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Visible Invisibility | |
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Visible Invisibility: In the "Delicate" video. The audience can see Taylor just fine, but she suddenly stops showing up in mirrors and everyone around her acts as if she isn't there. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": "Look What You Made Me Do": | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil: Many of the songs on the album play with Swift's reputation this way, as much as to say, "Well, if this is how you perceive me anyway, so be it!" "I Did Something Bad" exemplifies this trope. "Look What You Made Me Do" and its Create Your Own Villain conceit. | |
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Resurrection Revenge | |
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Resurrection Revenge: The music video for "Look What You Made Me Do" shows her rising from her grave, and the song has the lines: "Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time / I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined". | |
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reputation (Music) / int_3da789e | |
| reputation (Music) / int_3e5f74c | type |
Take That, Critics! | |
| reputation (Music) / int_3e5f74c | comment |
Take That, Critics!: The "Look What You Made Me Do" video addresses various criticisms people have made of her, some—that she's petty and spoiled, that her girl squad is unnaturally perfect—symbolically, some—that she's inauthentic, too nice, too surprised, indecisive, dramatic—directly, through the alternate Taylors onstage at the end of the video. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_3e5f74c | |
| reputation (Music) / int_3ea462d7 | type |
Take That, Audience! | |
| reputation (Music) / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: Doesn't shy away from deriding her listeners, detractors and fans alike, for assuming to understand her. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_3ea462d7 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_44606d14 | type |
Becoming the Mask | |
| reputation (Music) / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: The album's narrative shows Swift struggling to reconnect with her authentic self under the many layers of PR-face. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_44606d14 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4675960 | type |
I'm Your Worst Nightmare | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4675960 | comment |
I'm Your Worst Nightmare: Played with: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4675960 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_472c7555 | type |
Ending by Ascending | |
| reputation (Music) / int_472c7555 | comment |
Ending by Ascending: Some of the final shots of the music video to "...Ready For It?" show robo-Taylor climbing a broken escalator into the light as her enemies burn behind her. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_472c7555 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_476d2edb | type |
Snakes Are Sinister | |
| reputation (Music) / int_476d2edb | comment |
Snakes Are Sinister: Her satirical reclaimed symbol. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_476d2edb | |
| reputation (Music) / int_47b97b31 | type |
Album Closure | |
| reputation (Music) / int_47b97b31 | comment |
Album Closure: The record finishes with "New Year's Day," a soft, minimalist piano ballad about new beginnings which contrasts sharply with the dense electropop of much of the album. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_47b97b31 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4ae72307 | type |
Be Yourself | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4ae72307 | comment |
Be Yourself: A moral. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4ae72307 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: ... and, if she's Taylor Swift, she'll write an album about it. Depicted in the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video, where the only innocent, idealistic Taylors are the younger ones from early in her career. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4b316d47 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4bba4b6b | type |
Counting to Three | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4bba4b6b | comment |
Counting to Three: To spectacular effect in the bridge of "So It Goes...": | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4bba4b6b | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4db088ab | type |
I Can't Dance | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4db088ab | comment |
I Can't Dance: The "Delicate" video is something of a sequel to the video for "Shake It Off," which poked fun at Swift's inability to dance. Here, instead of pushing herself into a series of styles she's not suited for, Taylor realizes that no one around her can see her anyway and takes the opportunity to dance around the city like no one is watching. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4db088ab | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4fbc0887 | type |
Beneath the Mask | |
| reputation (Music) / int_4fbc0887 | comment |
Beneath the Mask: A Central Theme of the album. How much is a mask, how much can I control it, how much does it control me. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_4fbc0887 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5037b961 | type |
Et Tu, Brute? | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5037b961 | comment |
Et Tu, Brute?: The phrase can be seen carved on the arm of her throne in the "Look What You Made Me Do" video. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_5037b961 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_51be8071 | type |
Forced from Their Home | |
| reputation (Music) / int_51be8071 | comment |
Forced from Their Home: Referenced in "Look What You Made Me Do", where she claims she was locked out of her house after giving someone a place to sleep. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_51be8071 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_51d9540e | type |
Flames of Love | |
| reputation (Music) / int_51d9540e | comment |
The lyric video for "Look What You Made Me Do" (which was the first content released from the album) and several lyrical references at least call back to her long-standing love affair with red. "I Did Something Bad": "End Game": | |
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reputation (Music) / int_51d9540e | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The video for "Delicate" opens with Taylor sadly looking straight ahead, before she suddenly becomes invisible to everyone around her. It ends with everyone suddenly being able to see her again and staring at her... while she looks to her love interest and smiles. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_5313c266 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5834239a | type |
The Diss Track | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5834239a | comment |
The Diss Track: Critics expected the album to be full of vitriolic take-downs of her various enemies, including Katy Perry and Kanye and Kim Kardashian West. Arguments vary as to whether it actually delivered. The "tilted stage" line in "Look What You Made Me Do" has been interpreted as a reference to Kanye West's then-recent Saint Pablo Tour, where he performed on a sloped stage. But it could just as easily be the tilted stage she is being made to perform on—especially as she incorporated an open book on a tilting see-saw into her own tour set. Her outfit in the car crash scene could be described as incredibly evocative of Katy Perry's style, and she poses for the cameras afterwards holding a Grammy Award—which Perry has never won. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" is generally agreed to be about Kanye West and his repeated betrayals of her trust after she forgave him for the infamous incident where he barged his way onstage to interrupt her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA Awards. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_5834239a | |
| reputation (Music) / int_59f4d283 | type |
Ominous Music Box Tune | |
| reputation (Music) / int_59f4d283 | comment |
Ominous Music Box Tune: "Look What You Made Me Do" begins with a variation of one. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_59f4d283 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5a0e88d8 | type |
Bring It | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5a0e88d8 | comment |
Bring It: In "I Did Something Bad," the bridge, "They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one," concludes with, "Go ahead and light me up!" | |
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reputation (Music) / int_5a0e88d8 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| reputation (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The relationship between public image and true personality and how the spotlight affects and twists one's personal life and, er, reputation. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6053dc28 | type |
Record Producer | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6053dc28 | comment |
Record Producer: Notably, Swift executive-produced the album herself, doubling down on the producers behind most of the hits from her last two albums and becoming more hands-on with this part of the process than she had previously been. Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback handled half of the album, while Swift co-produced the other half herself with Jack Antonoff. Reputation also marked the first album to not feature a single credit for Nathan Chapman, who had produced all of her first three albums and been a regular part of Swift's tenure with Big Machine. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_6053dc28 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6112fb53 | type |
Obsession Song | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6112fb53 | comment |
Obsession Song: "Gorgeous." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_6112fb53 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6298c177 | type |
Sequel Song | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6298c177 | comment |
Sequel Song: "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" to Speak Now's "Innocent," both about Kanye West. "Nice Things" retracts the forgiveness proffered in "Innocent" after Kanye's repeat betrayal. It's also something of a Spiritual Successor to 1989's "Bad Blood." | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_6298c177 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6400a34 | type |
Arm Cannon | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6400a34 | comment |
Arm Cannon: The enslaved Taylor briefly sprouts one in the "...Ready For It?" video. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_6400a34 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_64fd1e63 | type |
Other Me Annoys Me | |
| reputation (Music) / int_64fd1e63 | comment |
Other Me Annoys Me: The Taylors in the "Look What You Made Me Do" video don't get along. At all. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_64fd1e63 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_66b98472 | type |
Erotic Dream | |
| reputation (Music) / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: "...Ready For It?" | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_66b98472 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6926506 | type |
Revenant Zombie | |
| reputation (Music) / int_6926506 | comment |
First Swift portrays herself as a vengeful ghoul literally risen from the dead out of petty spite. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_6926506 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_715c463e | type |
Literal Split Personality | |
| reputation (Music) / int_715c463e | comment |
At the end of the song, various Taylors appear onstage before an applauding crowd, each embodying a different "flaw" the media has blamed her for, bickering while a central Taylor timidly requests: | |
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reputation (Music) / int_715c463e | |
| reputation (Music) / int_73fa8db | type |
Singer Namedrop | |
| reputation (Music) / int_73fa8db | comment |
Singer Name Drop: "...Ready For It?": | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_73fa8db | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7464705c | comment |
The phrase "so it goes" is integral to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, where it is used as a narrative transition each time a character dies. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7464705c | |
| reputation (Music) / int_75d6bf40 | type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
| reputation (Music) / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: "Gorgeous": | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_75d6bf40 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_76dc3807 | type |
Alone in a Crowd | |
| reputation (Music) / int_76dc3807 | comment |
Alone in a Crowd: The "Delicate" music video begins with Taylor staring off into space in the middle of a gaggle of reporters before she gets recognied; she smiles sweetly and starts answering the reporter questioning her. The rest of the video has a similar energy, with Taylor becoming invisible to everyone around her. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_76dc3807 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| reputation (Music) / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: As per usual with Swift, it's safe to assume that at least some of the songs on the album are Based on a True Story. However, the lyric booklet intro cautions against searching for that kind of meaning in them, deriding those who consider the key to her songs "as simple or basic as a paternity test." | |
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reputation (Music) / int_786bf97f | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: We never actually see Taylor's love interest in the "Delicate" video. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7abba202 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7b4240c8 | type |
Your Little Dismissive Diminutive | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7b4240c8 | comment |
Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: "I don't like your little games." | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7b4240c8 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7bef792a | type |
BreakUpSong | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7bef792a | comment |
Break Up Song: A notable absence of them from this album, which is really surprising considering the rest of her discography. The only exception is "Getaway Car", where the narrator is leaving a short-lived relationship she only began as an excuse to break up with her old unfulfilling one (generally speculated to be about her brief relationship with Tom Hiddleston after leaving Calvin Harris). | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7bef792a | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7c862b8a | type |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7c862b8a | comment |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: "Getaway Car," where she eventually betrays the person she left her previous relationship for. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7c862b8a | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: or Song, in these cases. "Look What You Made Me Do" "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7d89315b | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| reputation (Music) / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: "Gorgeous," so very much. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_7ef728b1 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_807ceed9 | type |
Outlaw Couple | |
| reputation (Music) / int_807ceed9 | comment |
Outlaw Couple: The romance in "Getaway Car," if you take it literally. Which you probably shouldn't. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_807ceed9 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_813e694d | type |
Continuity Cavalcade | |
| reputation (Music) / int_813e694d | comment |
Continuity Cavalcade: The "Look What You Made Me Do" music video. It's so jam-packed with references to Taylor's old videos, songs, and public appearances that not even a diehard Swiftie could catch them all on the first viewing. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_813e694d | |
| reputation (Music) / int_83445b04 | type |
Pun | |
| reputation (Music) / int_83445b04 | comment |
This pun: | |
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reputation (Music) / int_83445b04 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| reputation (Music) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: The "Delicate" video starts with a close up of Taylor staring off into space in the middle of a paparazzi mob before smiling sweetly and answering a reporter's question. Later, alone, she practices a series of ever-goofier smiles in the mirror, eventually devolving into just making faces at herself. | |
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reputation (Music) / int_83a903f6 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| reputation (Music) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: The prechorus of "Look What You Made Me Do": | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_86b21114 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8a9eb844 | type |
Perspective Flip | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8a9eb844 | comment |
Keys. "I don't like your kingdom keys / They once belonged to me" and "Put the money in a bag and I stole the keys." | |
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reputation (Music) / int_8a9eb844 | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8c00118f | type |
Spoken Word in Music | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8c00118f | comment |
Spoken Word in Music: "Look What You Made Me Do" and "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" both feature brief spoken sections in their bridges. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_8c00118f | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
| reputation (Music) / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: The video for "Look What You Made Me Do" takes "I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time" literally, beginning with Taylor as a zombie clambering up out of her grave. On the Reputation Stadium Tour, part of her set included a see-saw stage that resembled a massive open book. | |
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1.0 | |
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reputation (Music) / int_8cf6aa | |
| reputation (Music) / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Affected in "I Did Something Bad." | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: "Look What You Made Me Do": If you interpret the romance in "Getaway Car" literally, it's about an Outlaw Couple who betray each other as soon as they've gotten away with the money. If you interpret it metaphorically, the narrator leaves her previous lover for another man, then leaves him for someone else. Either way, the song's about how a relationship built on lies and betrayal can never last. | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: "Look What You Made Me Do" rhymes "nick of time" with "all the time." "Gorgeous" has, "I can't say anything to your face, 'cause look at your face." | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: A central theme of the album. As we know, there's nothing she does better. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Parodied by "Look What You Made Me Do." | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
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"This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" is generally agreed to be about Kanye West and his repeated betrayals of her trust after she forgave him for the infamous incident where he barged his way onstage to interrupt her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA Awards. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Gender Flipped in "...Ready For It?" and "Don't Blame Me," in which Taylor (or at least, the version of herself she's playing) describes herself as a heartbreaker ... who is now head-over-heels in love. | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "...Ready For It?" | |
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Invisibility | |
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Invisibility: Taylor suddenly becomes invisible in the video for "Delicate," because everyone's so focused on the public image that no one notices or cares about the real thing anymore. She can't even see herself. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: As "Look What You Made Me Do" announces: | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: The robo-Taylor in the "...Ready for It?" video first appears seemingly naked, but with a smooth crotch and no nipples—and feet shaped like flesh-colored high heels. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I. Don't. Like your lit-tle games." "This is why we can't have nice. Things. Dar. Ling." | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: One major theme of the album beside her damaged reputation is her budding romance with an English guy (heavily inspired by her budding relationship at the time with Joe Alwyn): The narrator in "...Ready for It?" is incredibly excited to finally discover a guy who is her match and wants to keep their relationship secret from the rest of the world. The narrator in "Endgame" wants to be her love interest's soulmate despite their "big reputation". Future and Ed Sheeran play her love interests in the song and music video, possibly representing her overlapping romance at the time of the album creation with Tom Hiddleston and Joe Alwyn. "Don't Blame Me" is about the narrator being driven crazy by love. "Delicate" is about finding someone who looks past her bad reputation to love her for her. "So It Goes..." is about a relationship that is extremely passionate behind closed doors. The love interest from "Gorgeous" is so good-looking that the narrator becomes extremely jealous and infatuated to the point that she can't even muster up the courage to talk to them. "King of My Heart" describes a romance that went from being a casual, private affair to the narrator being so in love with the guy to the point that he became the "King of [her] heart, body and soul". "Dancing With Our Hands Tied" is about a deep passionate romance behind closed doors despite the pressure from the outside world to come between them. Taylor shared with fans that the song was written after having an intense experience with the paparazzi that made her question her relationship with Alwyn. "Dress" is mostly Intercourse with You in the chorus, but the verses describe the deep love and feeling leading to and surrounding her aforementioned hook up. "Call It What You Want" is about the narrator being so in love with her love interest and the life they built that they don't care at all about the distractions surrounding her. Swift stated that this song is one of the songs from the album that told "the real story" of her relationship. The narrator in "New Year's Day" wants to stay with her love interest after the exciting moment has passed and through all the good and bad times, asking him to hold on to her and their memories. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The lyric video for "Look What You Made Me Do" is done in the style of the title designs of Saul Bass. | |
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Robot Me | |
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Robot Me: All the Taylors in the "...Ready For It?" video. | |
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Saw a Woman in Half | |
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Saw a Woman in Half: "So It Goes...": | |
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Answer Song | |
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Answer Song: "Look What You Made Me Do," to Katy Perry's "Swish Swish," itself an Answer Song to Swift's "Bad Blood." | |
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Caged Bird Metaphor | |
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Caged Bird Metaphor: The "gold cage" referenced in "So It Goes..." shows up in the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video as a massive birdcage for a singing Swift. The metaphor of the golden cage also shows up in Swift's poem, "If You're Anything Like Me," which appears in Vol. 2 of the reputation magazine: | |
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Ouroboros | |
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Ouroboros: These symbols appear in concentric circles during the chorus in the "Look What You Made Me Do" lyric video, reinforcing the fuzzy cause-effect relationships the song explores. | |
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Robot Girl | |
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Robot Girl: The "...Ready For It?" music video features a naked robot version of Taylor in captivity in a glass cage. In the end, it turns out the free Taylor we have been following is also a robot. | |
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What Beautiful Eyes! | |
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What Beautiful Eyes!: Continuing the motif from previous albums. "Delicate": "Gorgeous": "Call It What You Want": | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A lot in "Look What You Made Me Do": "Nils Sjoberg". Swift inscribed the pen name she used for "This is What You Came For", the she cowrote with ex Calvin Harris on a gravestone. The "I heart TS" t-shirts the all male backup dancers wear. Tom Hiddleston was mocked mercilessly for wearing them at her 4th of July bash in 2016. All the past Taylor Swift's gathered around circus ringleader "Red"-era Taylor. Swift pokes fun at how fans mocked her signature "surprised face" at awards shows. | |
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Color Motif | |
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Color Motif: The lyric video for "Look What You Made Me Do" (which was the first content released from the album) and several lyrical references at least call back to her long-standing love affair with red. "I Did Something Bad": "End Game": "Dancing with Our Hands Tied": The "golden" motif also appears in "Dress": "Getaway Car": | |
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Terms of Endangerment | |
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Terms of Endangerment: The Revenge Ballad "Look What You Made Me Do" says: "This is why we can't have nice things, darling." | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound: In the "...Ready For It?" music video, the captive robo-Taylor is finally able to escape her prison by shattering her glass cage (and her captor) with the power of her voice. | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated: The themes of fame's harsh realities present in "The Lucky One," "Shake It Off," and "I Know Places" come to the foreground here. Every song is on some level about the impossibility of the job of the woman in the public eye: to keep everybody satisfied. | |
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Splash of Color | |
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Splash of Color: The "Look What You Made Me Do" lyric video is grayscale + red. The "Gorgeous" lyric video, contrastingly, is grayscale + pink. | |
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Clear My Name | |
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Clear My Name: Subverted. She sets about to accomplish this by specifically not trying to. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
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Shrouded in Myth: Believes herself to have become this and wants to set the record straight. | |
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Diamonds in the Buff | |
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Diamonds in the Buff: The second scene of the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video shows Taylor literally bathing in diamonds in a room full of mirrors. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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An alleged deleted lyric of "Gorgeous": | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Swift and her new beau as of the end of the album. | |
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Appropriated Appellation | |
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Appropriated Appellation: After Kim Kardashian released the recording of the phone call that seemed to show Swift approving Kanye West's lyric about her in "Famous" (which Swift had previously denied knowledge of), detractors flooded Taylor's social media accounts with serpent emojis, calling her a "lying snake." Swift, perhaps inspired by the animal's connections with immortality, chose to reclaim the insult. Months later, she blacked out all her accounts, then posted a set of snake GIFs on her Instagram to announce the upcoming reputation. Snakes went on to feature as something of an Arc Symbol to the album, appearing on her rings and around her throne in the music video to "Look What You Made Me Do," featuring prominently in the lyric video for the same, and adorning the stage in massive scale on the Reputation Stadium Tour. | |
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Missing Reflection | |
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Missing Reflection: Taylor's first sign that she has become invisible in the "Delicate" music video is when she turns back to her mirror to discover she can no longer see her own reflection. | |
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Creepy Cemetery | |
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Creepy Cemetery: The "Look What You Made Me Do" music video begins in one. The first shot is a sweeping aerial that reveals the tombstones spell out the initials TS. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The line, "he had it comin'" from "I Did Something Bad" is possibly an allusion to ''Chicago's "Cell Block Tango", where the "Six Married Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" sing about the various ways they have taken revenge on their unfaithful husbands: The phrase "so it goes" is integral to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, where it is used as a narrative transition each time a character dies. It has been suggested that the plant motif in "Don't Blame Me" is a reference to contrasting fictional women: "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" also alludes to The Great Gatsby to emphasize the lavishness of her parties. The opening line of "Getaway Car," "It was the best of times, the worst of crimes," is a play on the infamous first sentence of A Tale of Two Cities. "...Ready For It?": This pun: One of the Robot Taylors in the nude bodysuit is evocative of Major Kusanagi. | |
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I Will Wait for You | |
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I Will Wait for You:"...Ready For It?": | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: All over the album, often verging into Self-Parody. In the video for "Look What You Made Me Do" she sings "No, I don't like you" to ... a mirror. "Gorgeous": | |
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Word of God | |
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As Taylor herself put it in an interview: | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Downplayed in a literal interpretation of "Look What You Made Me Do": she never says exactly what she's actually done. Same goes for "I Did Something Bad." | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch: Played with. The music videos for "...Ready For It?" and "Delicate" do relate to their songs' lyrics, but in wildly unexpected ways. The "...Ready For It?" video takes a love song and uses it for a narrative about freedom from self-image and finding authenticity through artificiality ... with robots. Several of the song's beats coincide with appropriate events in the video, such as the captive Taylor mouthing "Jailer!" at her captor. And in the context of the video—singing to an artificial version of yourself that hates you but that you control utterly—lines like "In the middle of the night, in my dreams / You should see the things we do," "you'll never be alone," and "No one has to know" take on new, darker meanings. "Delicate" has less overlap between song and video, and the narratives are almost antithetical. The lyrics sing about treading carefully so as not to mess up a new relationship, while the video tells a story of realizing it's maybe not all that delicate—people will see in her what they want to see—and shedding all carefully cultivated pretense to embrace awkward, bumbling authenticity. | |
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Dominatrix | |
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Her legion of plastic dominatrixes in the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video evokes her action team in "Bad Blood." | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
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Big "SHUT UP!": The alternate Taylors deliver one in tandem to VMA Taylor at the end of the "Look What You Made Me Do" video. | |
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Subdued Section | |
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Subdued Section: The prechorus of "...Ready For It?" before The bridge of "New Year's Day." | |
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Forbidden Fruit | |
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Forbidden Fruit: "Gorgeous": | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "Look What You Made Me Do." | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: "End Game" says "I heard about you / You like the bad ones too." And Future's verse says: | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: In the post-chorus of "End Game": And in "Delicate": An alleged deleted lyric of "Gorgeous": | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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"Dress" is mostly Intercourse with You in the chorus, but the verses describe the deep love and feeling leading to and surrounding her aforementioned hook up. | |
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Ballroom Blitz | |
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Ballroom Blitz: Downplayed. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" uses the imagery of wild, extravagant parties to make it all that much more tragic when her friend betrays her. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: The evil Taylor in the video for "...Ready For It?" delivers one on the first Title Drop. | |
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Decon-Recon Switch | |
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Decon-Recon Switch: "New Year's Day," by showing the aftermath of the kind of wild euphoric moments so many love songs fixate on, but also emphasizing that with the right person, it's well worth it. As Taylor herself put it in an interview: | |
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Slave to PR | |
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Slave to PR: Swift is tired of being one and contorting herself to fit what she thinks the public wants her to be—tired of worrying about her reputation. | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over | |
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The "Look What You Made Me Do" lyric video is grayscale + red. | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality: An odd duality of this album is that it contains some of Taylor's most vicious "The Reason You Suck" Songs ("Look What You Made Me Do", "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things", "I Did Something Bad"), but also some of her most genuine and tender love songs ("New Year's Day", "Delicate", "So It Goes...", "Call It What You Want"), resulting in her coming off as this. | |
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I Regret Nothing | |
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I Regret Nothing: "I Did Something Bad": | |
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Ahem | |
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Ahem: "...Ready For It?" and thus the whole album begin with Swift clearing her throat before beginning to rap. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Implied in "Dancing With Our Hands Tied." | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Pokes fun at her reputation as a maneater in several songs. "...Ready For It?": "Don't Blame Me": | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Don't Blame Me," where the formerly Vamp-y singer feels like she's falling apart or losing her mind for her new love interest. | |
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Evil Feels Good | |
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Evil Feels Good: "I Did Something Bad": | |
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Took a Level in Cynic | |
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Took a Level in Cynic: Since the last album. We've gone from "I shake it off!" to "I don't trust nobody, and nobody trusts me." | |
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Gold Digger | |
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"I Did Something Bad" is all about how she's (perceived as) a remorseless, unfeeling Gold Digger. | |
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Sitting on the Roof | |
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Sitting on the Roof: "King Of My Heart": | |
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Malicious Slander | |
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Malicious Slander: Swift takes on some of the besmearment she feels her reputation has suffered, including her alleged lies regarding "Famous." | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: "Don't Blame Me": | |
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Enemies List | |
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The "list of names" in "Look What You Made Me Do" is reminiscent of her "long list of ex-lovers" ala "Blank Space"—only this time, it's a hit list. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk: The "...Ready For It?" music video makes full use of the aesthetic, taking place in neon-illuminated and rain-soaked alleyways and warehouses full of shady individuals, graffiti, and robots. | |
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