Taylor Swift - "Look What You Made Me Do"/Transcript

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The following is a transcript of "[[Taylor Swift - "Look What You Made Me Do]]", the fortieth episode of the[[ A Dose of Buckley]] feature [[Musical Autopsy]].
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
This is Musical Autopsy, it's the feature where Doc Buckley, once again, visits the Musical Morgue to dissect a song or artist. And lying prone on the table just waiting to be sliced into? It's Taylor Swift's new single, "Look What You Made Me Do."
Taylor Swift song "Look What You Made Me Do" plays.
"I don't like your little games
Don't like your tilted stage
The role you made me play
Of the fool, no I don't like you"
So, there's a lot of speculation that this song is about Kanye West. People suggesting the tilted stage isn't metaphorical, that it's a direct reference to Kanye's stupid stage in his "Life of Pablo" tour where he hovered over everyone, and you looked at the bottom of his $3,000 running shoes while he performed or rambled on about how Jay-Z is going to murder him. And "the role you made me play" specifically being a reference to the music video for "Famous" where a wax figure or whatever of Taylor Swift was naked in the bed. Or maybe it's about the role she played in the media where Kim had secretly taped her conversation with Kanye about "Famous", where it could be interpreted that she agreed to be referenced in the song with that lyric, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous." And she potentially looked like a fool because she had claimed no such conversation took place or that she didn't agree to it or whatever. Now of course, this is all speculation because this is the "high school white girl" version of a diss track where instead of flat out calling someone out, you make a bunch of passive-aggressive references they can later deny when Skye is like "OMG, did you seriously say that shit about me, Chelsea? Kirsten said you did." And Chelsea can be like, "OMG, you know I wouldn't. You're like my favorite bitch."
"Look What You Made Me Do" continues at pre-chorus; lyrics appear.
"But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time
Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time
'I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined"
I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!
I love this idea that Taylor Swift thinks for one moment that she's ever truly been an underdog, that she "rose up from the dead" and "does it all the time". She was born with every advantage. Her parents were incredibly well-off, moved around the country to accommodate her dreams of being a musician. And every single album she's released has gone multi-platinum, including her last one which...in this decade? Selling any number of albums at all, never mind millions of albums? She'd have to go get a dictionary to find out what losing even means. "Yeah, but people pick on her." Ho ho yeah boo-fucking-hoo! She can cry herself to sleep in a pile of money and somehow on an even bigger pile.
Song continues at chorus.
"Ooh...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
And here we have the part that every fucking teenage girl is gonna be chanting until Christmas. This song is super repetitive, her saying "Look what you made me do" accounts for about 1/3 of the song's length. And it's more of this modern pop shit where we get the big, rising crescendo into a whole bunch of minimalist nothing, like a build-up to the most boring and unsatisfying orgasm ever. And I love the message that this sends. Look what you made her do. She doesn't have to take responsibility for her actions. Someone else made her do whatever it is she's doing here, underlining a name on a list, checking it twice like she's Santa Cunt, and then a making a piss-poor diss track where she doesn't say anyone's name so she can hide behind the whole "It's art and I'm just expressing myself" defense. Ooh no! Not that! Anything but that!
Song continues at bridge.
"I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me
I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams
I mean I do have nightmares that I'm forced to go to a Taylor Swift concert, and they lock the doors, and I can't escape, and it lasts an eternity. And it turns out I'm actually in hell, and I have to listen to 20,000 screaming pre-teen demons screech along to "Shake It Off", and I can't cover my eyes because my hands have huge holes in them. But I love this character she's trying to cultivate for herself is "I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me". She thinks she's so edgy, so badass. "I don't trust nobody except for my squad of course, comprised of a bunch of other famous pretty girls, and Lena Dunham, who all love me!"
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now.
"Why?
Oh, 'cause she's dead
Hahahahaha!! No, the old Taylor is so fucking far from dead. Does she think this is something new? The previously mentioned "Shake It Off" was about how she doesn't care what people say, which now she's saying she does care. And "Bad Blood" was also a white-girl-gossip diss track, supposedly about Katy Perry. Hell, even her older shit where she sang about boys she liked that didn't like her. They were all possibly shots at Harry Styles, that shirtless werewolf kid from those vampire movies, John Mayer, and the countless celebrity boys who broke her heart in her late teens and early '20s. This is the old Taylor, writing vague songs about people who have upset her, pretending like she's the plucky underdog. But this time, it's slower and moodier because that's the kind of pop music that's selling right now. It's the equivalent of painting your 2002 Toyota Corolla a "matte black". It doesn't make it a new Corolla, it just has a new bland, boring paint job. And that's what this is. A new bland, boring paint job on good-ol' reliable album-selling Taylor Swift. 
This is Musical Autopsy, bag it and tag it.
Sound of zipper plays; video ends.