Look What You Made Me Do Analysis

Margaret Davenport

Staff Writer

Look what you made me do, Ben Buchnat. I, too, was ready to stay in a comfortable bubble of indie and punk harmonies. Pop really has been pretty boring this summer. But that all changed when Taylor Swift dropped the song and music video for “Look What You Made Me Do,” the first single off her new album “Reputation,” sending fans and haters into a frenzy. Now the most successful debut of any video in YouTube history, with a record-holding 43.2 million views in 24 hours, Swift only proves her music industry prowess. Taking every critique she has ever received from the media or public, Swift uses the song to make a strong comeback after a relatively defaming 2016, something my colleague failed to include in his review. Her famous beefs with rapper Kanye West, Kim Kardashian-West, Katy Perry and Calvin Harris are particularly highlighted throughout the video and song, and should be noted. But in order to do this, we need to break down the video frame-by-frame. Let’s gather the receipts. The video opens on a graveyard, Dead Taylor clawing her way out of the grave wearing the dress from the “Out of the Woods” music video, the last true music video from her last album “1989.” The name on one of the neighboring gravestones belongs to a “Nils Sjoberg,” the pseudonym Swift used when she co-wrote

According to a post from Tumblr user Wanderlust, Swift seems to answer a telephone very similar to the one that she speaks in from the “Our Song” music video. = The old Taylor Swift is dead, and her answering the same phone is symbolic of her readiness to just throw all the old stereotypes aside and be