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  • - Man, this video is all over the place.

  • - It is really cool looking.

  • The song's kind of terrible though.

  • ♪ (industrial music) ♪

  • (thunder rumbling)

  • - Oh. (chuckling)

  • This is Taylor's new song, right?

  • - What is this?

  • (crows cawing)

  • - Why do I feel like I've seen this?

  • - Dude, whatever, it's dark and desolate.

  • Oh no! The T.S.?

  • - (groaning) Tell me it's not Taylor Swift.

  • - (amused) "Here lies Taylor Swift's reputation."

  • What is go-- what?

  • - Tay-- oh, Taylor Swift. Oh, Taylor Swift.

  • She's being reborn?

  • - ♪ I don't like your little games ♪ - That's pretty sick.

  • - I've heard the song.

  • I haven't seen the video yet, so I'm very invested

  • in zombie Taylor Swift.

  • - ♪ The role you made me play ♪ - I love the visuals.

  • - ♪ Of the fool, no, I don't... ♪ - I really miss her country music.

  • - ♪ I don't like your perfect crime

  • How you'd... ♪

  • - That's literally what I picture every rich person doing,

  • just taking a bath in diamonds because they can.

  • - This is a surprisingly cool music video.

  • - ♪ But I got smarter... ♪ - Are those snakes? Ugh.

  • - ♪ ...in the nick of time

  • - I have such a huge fear of snakes.

  • This is not okay.

  • - ♪ ...do it all the time ♪ - It is really cool looking.

  • The song is kind of terrible though.

  • - Oh my god!

  • A snake holding a teapot?

  • - ♪ ...check it twice, oh

  • Ooh, look what you made me do

  • - Oh my god. Where is--?

  • - ♪ Look what you just made me... ♪

  • - And then that is exactly "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt."

  • - I know she gave Right Said Fred credit,

  • but I still don't like that part.

  • - ♪ Look what you made me do ♪ - I don't like this part.

  • - ♪ The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama

  • But not for me... ♪

  • - I mean, this video's visually pleasing to me.

  • - It's just not Taylor Swift!

  • - ♪ ...but you'll get yours

  • - It's almost a little Harley Quinn-esque right there,

  • with the baseball bat.

  • - ♪ Honey, I rose up from the dead... ♪

  • - Man, this video is all over the place.

  • - ♪ I've got a list of names and yours... ♪

  • - Some creepy looking models.

  • - ♪ I check it once... ♪ - This is kind of sick.

  • - ♪ (moaning) ♪

  • Look what you made me do

  • Look what you made me do

  • Look what you just made me do

  • Look what you just made me do

  • - Okay, I thought that was topical.

  • - In this music video, I feel like she totally transformed

  • into a whole different person.

  • - ♪ Look what you just made me... ♪ - "Heart T-Swizzle."

  • (chuckling)

  • - ♪ I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me

  • - Oh, old-school Taylor.

  • - I did think this part's funny though,

  • where it's like all of her personas.

  • - I don't understand what's going on. (laughing)

  • - ♪ ...nobody trusts me

  • ♪ I'll be the actress... ♪ - These are all of her old Taylors?

  • - ♪ ...bad dreams

  • - I love how it's literally every version of her.

  • - It was a pretty cool concept, so I give her props for that.

  • - ♪ The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now

  • - And I hate this part. It's so cheesy!

  • - ♪ Oh, 'cause she's dead

  • Oh, look what you made... ♪

  • - There's so many memes on Twitter

  • with that "'cause she's dead."

  • - ♪ Look what you just made me do

  • - (audience cheering) - What?

  • Okay.

  • - All the different eras. That's cool.

  • - This part's pretty funny.

  • - (Taylor #1) You guys!

  • - (Taylor #2) Stop making that surprised face.

  • It's SO annoying.

  • - (Taylor #3) Yeah, you can't possibly be that surprised

  • all the time.

  • - It's always great, seeing people make fun of themselves.

  • (Taylor #4) What's a "bad bitch"? - (Taylor #2) Don't call me that!

  • - (Taylor #5) Oh, stop acting like you're all nice.

  • You are so fake! - (Taylor #6 sobbing)

  • - What? This is funny.

  • - She's fighting with herself, all these different personalities.

  • - (Taylor #5) Well, there she goes.

  • Playing the victim again.

  • - Yes, okay, she's admitting it.

  • - At least she can make fun of herself.

  • She's definitely getting the last laugh on this.

  • - (Taylor #7) I would very much like to be excluded

  • from this narrative. - (other Taylors) Oh, shut up!

  • - Okay, no, but that was really funny, actually.

  • I liked the end part a lot.

  • - That was actually great.

  • I'm very surprised with her.

  • People take things so personally, but if you can read yourself

  • in your own music video, I think I just gained

  • a little more bit more respect for her for that.

  • - That's not what I listen to Taylor for.

  • I listen to Taylor Swift for fun, poppy music,

  • and this is not fun, poppy music.

  • She was just trying to be edgy, go a different route,

  • which is cool, but I just don't think it really worked well.

  • - (FBE) Well, that was the music video for "Look What You Made Me Do,"

  • the latest single by Taylor Swift.

  • - She's definitely not trying to be subtle at all.

  • "It's your fault that this is happening to me,

  • and the old me is dead because of what you did to me,

  • and look what you made me do."

  • Okay, we get it.

  • - She's kind of using what people say about her

  • in the media from the beginning of her career until now,

  • and making a whole video out of that to show, hey,

  • I understand what people are saying, but I'm still going to do what I do,

  • and I'm gonna have fun with it.

  • I thought that was a great idea.

  • - (FBE) Well, this video contains numerous references

  • and in-jokes from her career, and we want to take

  • a look at some of those with you now.

  • - Oh, cool.

  • - (FBE) So this first one is of a dollar in her bathtub,

  • which many people speculated as referencing

  • when a DJ grabbed her inappropriately at an event,

  • whom she then successfully sued for $1.00.

  • - For $1.00, yeah, I saw that.

  • - That's a good Easter egg.

  • If that's true, I like it.

  • - That guy was a moron, but I like the fact

  • that she just sued for $1.00, just to prove a point.

  • She's like, "Bro, you got nothing."

  • - A lot of the time, sexual assault isn't taken that seriously,

  • so it's great seeing someone of Taylor Swift's status

  • actually, you know, bringing that to light

  • and showing people, you know, don't be afraid to report it.

  • It's important.

  • - (FBE) And this next one is a snake serving her tea,

  • which fans think is a reference to people calling her a snake.

  • - Oh, oh, that's terrible.

  • - She's kind of one of those people where she looks innocent and stuff,

  • but she's super shady.

  • That's why I get the reference.

  • - She's like Regina George.

  • She is.

  • I'm about to spill the tea.

  • That's what she's saying, so get ready.

  • - What tea?

  • What? When you're famous, it's not tea.

  • It's just tabloid news.

  • There's nothing to spill.

  • - (FBE) This one scene has eight backup dancers,

  • and many pointed out that Taylor had eight profile ex-boyfriends

  • who these could represent.

  • - Whoa! People are getting really in depth

  • and very specific with analyzing this music video.

  • - That seems a little far-fetched.

  • - I don't know if Taylor Swift went and counted.

  • I feel like eight is just a good number to divide four and four

  • on either side of you.

  • - Partially, that's a stretch, but I would not put that past her.

  • - She seems like the person that would overthink

  • those kind of things and go, like, every single detail

  • has to mean something.

  • - (FBE) Well, the theory has further proof because all these guys

  • are wearing shirts with "I Heart T.S.,"

  • which is a reference to a shirt that one of her famous ex-boyfriends,

  • Tom Hiddleston, wore. - Oh, what the-- please.

  • Yeah, the relationship that lasted two weeks?

  • - It's a lot of stretching, dude, just his t-shirt?

  • - Hmmm, okay, well, then I guess that puts

  • a little more credence to the theory that they're all her boyfriends.

  • - With all the other stuff that's in this video,

  • it wouldn't surprise me if that was a nod to that.

  • - (FBE) In addition to these references,

  • which there are tons more that we can't get into right now,

  • there have also been quite a few memes to pop out from the video,

  • with many people talking about old Taylor Swift

  • versus new Taylor Swift.

  • So we're going to show you some of those as well right now.

  • - I'm all about the memes on Twitter.

  • Show me the memes.

  • - "I liked the old one, but the new Taylor is growing on me."

  • (laughing)

  • - That's really funny because this is so relatable

  • in Taylor's case.

  • - Don't mess with Sandy.

  • No one can be Sandy, okay?

  • - Taylor Swift is nothing compared to Olivia Newton-John.

  • I love Olivia Newton-John to death.

  • - "Old Taylor Swift versus New Taylor Swift." (laughing)

  • - That's really [bleep] funny, dude!

  • Oh my god.

  • She has the high ground, though.

  • - Darth Vader's my favorite character in Star Wars.

  • Don't do that.

  • He's way better than Taylor Swift.

  • - No, it's not that dark.

  • That's dark.

  • We're talking about mass murder here. That's not that serious.

  • - "Taylor Swift before and after August 23, 2017."

  • - Oh my god, is that Robin? (laughing)

  • Oh my god, I remember that.

  • That's so great. I love that.

  • I love How I Met Your Mother.

  • - Oh, that is so hilarious. Robin Sparkles, man.

  • Every time I saw that too, I was like,

  • if this isn't a Jem and the Holograms reference,

  • I don't know what this is.

  • - "2012, he calls me up and he's like, 'I still love you.'

  • 2017, the old Taylor can't come to the phone

  • 'cause she's dead."

  • - That's so good.

  • That line just had to become a meme.

  • - That is so accurate because I felt like she was

  • always like a super crybaby.

  • I felt like she was Drake before Drake was Drake,

  • where he cries about everything, and now she's like,

  • "I don't care about anything."

  • I'm like... (light applause)

  • - It conveys what she wants to be as the evolution of Taylor Swift,

  • but I don't think she's really that dark

  • or, you know, deep down, it's all a facade.

  • I think her and Kim and Kanye are all in on it together.

  • - It was a really visually interesting video,

  • and there seemed to be some sort of plot in there,

  • but the song was really bad, so it's kind of distracting

  • from the video.

  • - (FBE) So obviously this is a very multi-layered song,

  • multi-layered video coming from Taylor Swift.

  • If you had to sum it up, what would you say

  • is the overall message she's trying to send

  • with this video?

  • - Saltiness. That's all I kept feeling.

  • - She's saying that she's had all these roles

  • and this is who-- all these different things

  • have created this new Taylor Swift.

  • - I know everybody in media talks about me,

  • about, like, "Oh, this is who you used to be"

  • and whatnot, but this is who I am now,

  • and all of that doesn't matter anymore.

  • - Look at yourself and what you've done

  • and where it has gotten you now, that's what I got from it,

  • but you can also see it from the point of view, like,

  • "Look what you all made me do, and now this is how I am."

  • But that would be blaming people and she doesn't seem

  • to be blaming people in the video.

  • She's putting it all on herself.

  • - It's a combination of both, kind of calling out the people

  • who have said this stuff about her, but also I do think

  • it's her acknowledging some of the mistakes she's made

  • along the way-- maybe not all,

  • but, hey, props to her for doing that.

  • - (FBE) And, finally, people were pretty split

  • as to whether or not this was a step in the right direction

  • for Taylor's career, so what do you think?

  • Do you think this moves her career forwards

  • or moves her career backwards?

  • - You know, I feel like it might move her a little backwards

  • because the song's not very good.

  • - It seems like it's going in a good direction for her.

  • - From a monetary standpoint, from a marketing standpoint

  • moving forward, this is good for her.

  • This is what people are gonna buy the most.

  • - Dude, you get people talking and thinking about stuff

  • and going and watching the video, I think it's a step foward, 100%.

  • - It is a step forward on career.

  • She is getting what she wants, which is everyone talking about her.

  • - This made me less excited for the new album

  • than I was, so, for me, it moves it back.

  • - I would say stagnant.

  • It's pop music.

  • It's not supposed to be some sort of revolutionary

  • kind of thing, you know?

  • It's, you know, it's Taylor Swift.

  • - I think this is a step foward.

  • The fact that Taylor has the courage to create something

  • completely different, that's a stroke of genius.

  • - This is a good step for her because this didn't annoy me.

  • I listen to her stuff and I watch her videos

  • and I'm like, "(sighing) Okay, whatever, Taylor.

  • It's cool. It's a cute song."

  • But this, I'm like, yo, I think I'll listen to this

  • on repeat for the rest of the day.

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- Man, this video is all over the place.

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