Ever since Taylor Swift dropped the biggest bomb of 2017 on November 10, the internet has imploded around everyone.

Not only are people freaking out about how good Swift's new music is, after a 3 year hiatus, online sources everywhere are dissecting the 15 tracked album to it's core desperately trying to piece together the hidden meanings and inspirations of each song. Just as Ms.Swift predicted in the booklet released with every reputation CD case.

Despite Taylor herself declaring "There will be no further explanation. There will just be reputation", after doing some extensive research on the lyrical masterpiece that is the reputation era I can now confidently outline my theory of what is the true story behind reputation. And it's pretty bullet proof if I do say so myself.

Note there is no way to confirm or deny anything, therefore you are welcome to agree or disagree.

The theory only works by keeping this post by Tumblr user smoreswift in mind.

It makes sense, the two songs "...Ready For It" and "So It Goes..." had to have been formatted with those ellipsis for a reason. The first half of the album is also the songs that are most far from Taylor's signature sound such as "End Game" (her daring collab with Future) and "Look What You Made Me Do". The second half is significantly softer and much less satire themed than the leading songs.

...Ready For It?

The first track on the album starts off with those three booms, which many fans have theorized represent the ellipsis mentioned above, and almost asks the listeners if they are truly ready to hear what is about to go down.

"...Ready For It" tells the tale of man eater Taylor on the hunt for her new victim. It uses aggressive lyrics such as comparing her self to a robber and holding her lovers for ransom. It's painting Taylor as her usually portrayed serial dater persona who becomes easily infatuated with her relationships, bringing back 1989's "Blank Space" vibes.

Outside of the song, this would correlate around the time when she started dating Calvin Harris, maybe even Harry Styles with the "younger than my exes but he acts like such a man though" line. Either way, the song is meant to show how she is constantly being seen as one who is constantly in and out of relationships for the sake of having one and to be able to sing about it. "Let the games begin" indeed.

End Game

"End Game" is her interesting collaboration with Future and Ed Sheeran. The amount of times the word "reputation" is dropped leads me to believe this is supposed to represent the time she shared with Tom Hiddleston back in 2016 since that relationship was often dragged through the media of being nothing more than a publicity stunt for the two of them.

The line "Big reputation, big reputation, Ooh, you and me, we got big reputations, ooo you and me would be a big conversation" only further proves this.

I Did Something Bad

This banger on the album is Taylor at her fiercest, in it, Taylor purrs about knowing she did something bad but that it felt so good. Despite the consequences, she would "do it over and over and over again if she could".

I would place this song between her break-up with Calvin Harris and her fallout with the Kardashian-West clan. With lines such as "If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing I don't regret it one bit, 'cause he had it coming" and "But if he drops my name, then I owe him nothin' And if he spends my change, then he had it comin' ", the only thing thy could reference is her feud with Harris and the drama that unfolded when Taylor decided to reveal she had a hand in writing "This Is What You Came For", and her big resentment of Kayne claiming she owed all her fame to him.

She also drops the "They got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons" line, with "receipts" being a word constantly used during the aftermath of the snap chat story heard round the world when Kim Kardashian revealed Swift's true knowledge of Kanye's "Famous" lyrics.

The song reflects the world's view of Taylor during this time, how they felt she was calculating every move she made and did not regret single thing because in the end it did give her more attention and publicity.

Don't Blame Me

Taylor's dramatic shift right after "I Did Something Bad", this song is supposed to acknowledge how the world always saw Taylor as someone who was always playing the victim card.

In the song, she's obsessing over a man and when it is suggested she's crossed a line she immediately defends herself by claiming it is not her fault and that "their love made her crazy".

The world always stated Taylor constantly looked for ways to play the victim in celebrity feuds in order to maintain her squeaky clean reputation until she finally went into her self-induced hibernation following her split from Hiddleston in late 2016. The repeated use of the phrase "Don't Blame Me" only drives this point further.

Delicate

Delicate starts off with the very passive line "We can't make any promises now, can we, babe? But you can make me a drink" as part of the intro. The whole song describes a secret relationship, but almost as vague as it could.

This symbolizes Swift's shift to a more private life, the media has little to say about her love affair with her new man Joe Alwyn because they know nothing about it.

The song features many repetitions of lines and verses and there are few personal anecdotes other than Taylor questioning the authenticity of the relationship. The song seems to acknowledge the media's zero knowledge of Swift and Alwyn and how it is initially dismissed as just a rebound after Tom Hiddleston and was most likely going no where.

Look What You Made Me Do

The album's leading single, is regarded as the song with the least amount of depth of the album. The first listen gives off the impression that is nothing more than just an angsty diss track Swift released as a comeback and to gain interest in her new album.

Which is what it was...playing exactly into the "media vs. real story" narrative that is reputation's framing device. LWYMMD was the first taste of her new album, and even after its release the public was still given little information about what was about to unfold. After it dropped, everyone was talking about Taylor Swift again after all that time she spent away from the public eye, everyone had something to say about her and her new sound, or as usual, being the attention seeker.

The release of LWYMMD, and it's placement on the album, was the last time Taylor let the media control the narrative that was her life. After that, she takes over and tells the real story.

So It Goes...

The narrator of the album switches from the public opinion of Taylor to Taylor herself and she starts right back to when she met Calvin Harris in this.

"So It Goes..." is obviously one of the darker toned songs on the album with sexy lyrics and the implication that both parties knew they were wrong for each other but persuaded the relationship anyway.

The title is also significant. It has similar ellipses as the opening track, signifying that they are turning points in the album. The opening track seems to ask the listener if they are "...Ready For It?", as in 'ready to hear some major tea about to be spilled?'. "So It Goes..." lets the listener know, 'ok so this is how it really went'.

Gorgeous

There have been many theories centered around this song, even with fans that attended the secret sessions claiming Taylor herself confirmed this song was about Joe Alwyn, but I am a hard core believer in this "media's vs. Taylor's narrative album theme" theory and for it to work than this song can be only about Tom Hiddleston.

In the song, Taylor gets drunk and makes fun of the way the guys talks (so he has to have an accent) and feels bad about her crush because she has a boyfriend back at home even if they are going through a rough patch.

Yes that can still apply to Alwyn, but there was less of a gap between Harris/Hiddleston than Hiddleston/Alwyn and the whole drama surrounding the former love triangle would have most likely prompted more guilt on Taylor's part. Don't worry, Alwyn does get his fair share of love songs later on in the album.

Getaway Car

This is where things get messy.

With lyrics such as "In shades of gray in candlelight, I wanted to leave him, I needed a reason " and "Well, he was runnin’ after us, I was screamin’, "Go, go, go!", But with three of us, honey, it's a sideshow", this song is hugely implied to be about a love triangle with neither guy winning.

The theory would place this song around the time she left Harris for Hiddleston, meaning it could be about no other grouping. She even eventually leaves the accomplice in the end of the song, neatly wrapping the whole love triangle between the three parties before the end of the album.

King Of My Heart

This is where Alwyn comes in. Taylor starts the song off saying she swore off love after the whole mess of events in "Getaway Car", but then she meets the man who made her give up on all of that.

The whole song is Taylor admitting he is everything she has ever wanted and how no man could compare to him. She even throw in the cute "I'm your American queen" line as a nod to their different nationalities.

Dancing With Our Hands Tied

Things are going well with Alwyn in this song, but she cannot share that with the world because this is during the hiatus and Taylor is still her broken bird self still learning to heal. This is giving off major "I Know Places" flashbacks and is full of Taylor's bitterness towards the media always being in her business.

Dress

Taylor's sexiest song on the album (or maybe tied with "So It Goes...") is also about Alwyn.

This song, and the two above that star Alwyn, are significant because they are the ones with the most references to her sex life. These songs take place during her hiding period, which is ironic since they feature her most intimate lyrics. It is her way of showing us that she is the only one who can tell her sides of the story, who could fill in the blanks, and that she is the only one who can control her own narrative.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

The album's foil to LWYMMD, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is Taylor's other call-out song and people are living for it.

While LWYMMD focuses on how the media perceived Taylor to react after her year long isolation from the public (whining, doing publicity stunts to garner more attention, and being overall fake just to boost record sales), while TIWWCHNT acts as her actual response.

With little jabs here and there, she defends herself and puts in her own side of the story of the whole Taylor/Kim/Kayne mess while shouting out everyone who stood by her through it all. There's no 'tough girl' persona being put on for show, this is "Better Than Revenge" Taylor at it again and attempting to move on from everything once and for all.

Call It As You Want & New Year's Day

These two songs close out the album beautifully by acknowledging that Alwyn was the one who helped Taylor through her rough time despite what the media said about her and him. Call It What You Want's swoon worthy lyrics like " I want to wear his initial on a chain round my neck, Not because he owns me, But 'cause he really knows me " make this a beautiful ode to her current lover, and the entirety of New Year's Day speaks for itself.

They also signify how Taylor is handling the public's perception of her. They are two soft songs put at the end of the album because she is no longer being loud and open with us anymore if the media and everyone else are just going to put their own two cents into her life. She is keeping everything to herself because as long as she has her man than that is all she needs.

She'll let the media talk, but she is in control of her own life. She's the only one who knows the true story, and they can say what they want because Taylor Swift is here to stay.