Look What You Didn't Do: A Response To Taylor Swift's New Single
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Look What You Didn't Do: A Response To Taylor Swift's New Single

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Look What You Didn't Do: A Response To Taylor Swift's New Single
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I'll be honest: I've never really been a fan of Taylor Swift. But when she deleted her Twitter this past week and all of my friends started to get excited about her new music that was about to get dropped at any moment, I felt myself hoping that I would like the brand new single. My Twitter feed was filled with praise the morning "Look What You Made Me Do" came out so I decided to give it a shot. But honestly...

It's all the same.

T-Swift's theme has always been to call out those who've wronged her. Old boyfriends, Kanye, the list goes on... (no really, "Blank Space" told us she has a list of names and has no problem adding yours). That was a few years ago, however, and I truly believed that when her Twitter bio said the old Taylor was dead, that maybe she had grown up from her karma-revolved songs. NOPE.


Right away, the lyrics are clear that karma is going to come for the person in this song and some people are guessing that it's about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (is that feud seriously still going on?). We don't know for sure, those are just some of the speculations and it may be about someone totally different. But nevertheless, Taylor has, once again, placed the blame on someone else.

I'm all for songs about picking yourself up after someone knocks you down, but Taylor Swift has always been innocent. She rarely ever mentions whether or not she could have played a role in the situation.

Let's take the chorus, for example, which in no way could be considered lyrical genius since it's the same line over and over, "look what you made me do." But in this one line, she's deflecting any and all blame off of herself onto someone else.

Many people consider her to be an empowerment idol but let's be real, what's so empowering about never accepting responsibility for your actions? Nothing. All I see in this song is another cry for someone's sympathy and that's not what you're getting from me.

I'm going to hope that the rest of her new album, Reputation (which comes out November 10), actually changes up her one-sided narrative and focuses on fixing exactly that.

But at this rate, I'm not so sure it will.

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