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After teasing her new single and album with cryptic Instagram clips three days in a row, Taylor Swift finally released “Look What You Made Me Do” late Thursday, August 24.
The song — which is dark and vengeful and declared the old Taylor to be dead — swiftly (ahem) began trending on Twitter, with fans tweeting in all-caps excitement as the song’s lyrics revealed themselves:
TO BE HONEST TAYLOR THIS IS SCARY AS HELL #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo
— REPUTATION 📰 (@cleveageee) August 25, 2017
"HONEY, I ROSE UP FROM THE DEAD,
I DO IT ALL THE TIME"
QUEEN!!!!!! #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo
— Justine (@justayswift13) August 25, 2017
I GOT A LIST OF NAMES AND YOURS IS IN RED UNDERLINE
— kathryn gallagher (@kathryng) August 25, 2017
But of course, as Tay knows all too well, there were some haters:
The crazy thing about "Look What You Made Me Do" is the lead-up to the chorus owns, and then it just violently shits the bed in the chorus.
— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) August 25, 2017
i’ll say this, the single sounds *exactly* how this looks. pic.twitter.com/qWV0zqLc7t
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) August 25, 2017
look what you made me dooo pic.twitter.com/JZOw2Li3n0
— k austin collins (@melvillmatic) August 25, 2017
And then came the memes, because this is, after all, the internet:
Me at 11 PM vs. me after this single dropped #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo pic.twitter.com/PTpMsmwDVO
— Chri$tine (@Lil_Vil) August 25, 2017
Me: I can't stand Taylor Swift-this new song is trash
Also me: #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo pic.twitter.com/D0Ig6WbqB2— Courtney Daye (@courtneydaye_) August 25, 2017
Me before and after listening to #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo: pic.twitter.com/AbJWJVy2yC
— Tiffany Love (@talesoftlove) August 25, 2017
New @taylorswift13 song or real-life episode of HIMYM? Cuz she just transformed into Robin Daggers and we all died too. #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo pic.twitter.com/xjAC9uyWGv
— Rachel Ebel (@RachelEbelPhoto) August 25, 2017
And some people couldn’t help but notice that the chorus of the song sounded strangely familiar:
So, @taylorswift13's #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo kindof reminds me of something. Wait for it… pic.twitter.com/oC8RnBFsfQ
— Chase Holfelder (@chaseholfelder) August 25, 2017
It turns out that ’90s one-hit-wonders Right Said Fred even have a writing credit on “Look What You Made Me Do.”
But that’s not the only thing people thought the song sounded like:
This sounds like a bad knockoff Lorde track sorry https://t.co/F5fJMY58XP
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 25, 2017
I'm gonna need Taylor Swift to pay Fergie for her sound. U not slick girl #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo pic.twitter.com/gCAhi8cbtc
— Sparkyboi (@daboss704) August 25, 2017
taylor swift finally wrote a katy perry song
— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) August 25, 2017
I LOVE THE SPOKEN WORD INTERLUDE. VERY @britneyspears
"OOPS I DID IT AGAIN" pic.twitter.com/zlavAOrjEV— Annie™💕 (@annielkozak) August 25, 2017
Whatever you think of Swift or her new single, you can’t deny her star power — she always gets people talking (or singing along). And we’ll be talking about her for a while — Reputation (her first new album since 2014’s smash 1989) comes out on November 10, 2017.
What do you think of Taylor Swift’s new song? Let us know @BritandCo!
(Photo via Kevin Winter/Getty Images for DIRECTV)
