The Swiftie universe is on a maximum alert.
An unexpected appearance of Taylor Swift’s song, “Look What You Made Me Do”, in The Handmaid’s Tale has lit a new wave of speculation around the arrival of Reputation (Taylor’s version). This time, it is not a simple coincidence: the version that sounds in episode nine of the final season It is not the one we met in 2017but a regrabation with nuances that only an artist with years of vocal evolution could offer.
The scene in which this iconic topic sounds – which marked a before and after in Swift’s career – occurs while the character of June Osbourne leads a rebellion against oppressors.
The choice does not seem accidental, and This was confirmed by Elisabeth Moss, protagonist and director of the episode: “I wanted to use a Taylor song for years in the series and finally we found the perfect moment … there could be no better song for a more perfect moment.”
Since Swift announced in 2019 that it would re -record its first six albums, due to the legal dispute for the rights of its original recordings, its fans have followed each track thoroughly.
Fearless, Grid, Speak Now and 1989 They already saw the light in their new version. Only two are left on the list: His homonymous debut album and the controversy Reputation, with which he faced his detractors and regained control of his narrative.
The fact that this new “What You Made Me Do” has been used at such a symbolically charged moment in the series only reinforces the theories that the launch of Reputation (Taylor’s version) It is imminent. Some followers even believe that it could be accompanied by their first studio album re -recordedthus closing the recovery cycle of its catalog with a master coup: name and reputation, at the same time.
Although Swift has not confirmed dates or given concrete clues, its silence only feeds the mystery. And if the artist has demonstrated throughout her career, it is that each movement is carefully calculated. In Taylor’s world, nothing is a coincidence.
Watch the video of “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s version)”:
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