This song is definitely about Scooter, when Taylor came out with the truth about him and Scott, Scooter's wife posted on social media attacking Taylor for it, and using very sexist terms and accusations to do it. And a lot of the people noticed that the style of "her" writing and everything sounded just like Scooter had written it himself and made her post it, which he probably did. Also "took everything from me" Scooter bought the masters to all of her first 6 albums, when she was denied the opportunity to do it, simply out of spite. Also because Scooter and Scott did this deal behind her back, then made horrible public jokes about her, then Scooter was like, "oh, no, she's just being crazy, and I'm here trying to be civilized" so he basically did call her a mad woman. He said he had "all good intentions" and she was being unreasonable and crazy and wouldn't talk to him.... Meanwhile he had a lot artists signed to him and his wife calling her all kinds of names and or just making posts on his defense. So he "poked the bear till the claws came out" then went around saying she was the unreasonable mad woman, and he was just trying to be a nice guy. He's despicable.
@@marbles9241 the line in 2nd verse: And women like haunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you, it's obvious that wanted me dead has really brought you 2 together, could be about Kim and Kayne and also about Scooter and his now ex - wife Yael. Both did her dirty and really hurt her and used their wifes to hurt her even more. And that haunting witches part could also be about Karlie Kloss who was her best friend until she sided with Scooter. The line it's obvious that wanted me dead has really brought you 2 together could also be about Scooter and Scott Borchetta. I think she's talking about all of these 6 people at once, because those are people who hurt her the most in her career.
I think this song is about how society views women expressing their anger. When she says, “ no one likes a mad woman, you made her like that”, people don’t like “mad woman” but they are the reason she is mad. Hope that makes sense.
I liked what you said about how in rock songs angry songs are faster. To me this feels more like a burning, seething quiet kind of anger. Like the kind that fuels a grudge. As opposed to an angry shouting in the moment kinda thing. I don’t know if that makes sense. But I hadn’t really thought about how it’s a different kind of angry song until you said that and you’re right.
The song addresses several issues in her dispute with her label over her masters. She said in an interview last fall that she tried for 10 years (ie. since 2009 and her Fearless World Tour) to recover her masters, but Scott Borchetta wouldn't sell them back (they rapidly became the biggest cash flow for the record label due to commercial licensing.) He started trying to sell the company in 2012, when he turned down an offer from UMG for $200M US. (This was when her Red album became her third bestselling album of the year, second to have a million US sales in a week). Borchetta's determination to retain ownership of the masters, combined with his determination to sell the Big Machine Label Group to outsiders, was a major violation of the initial trust that was part of why she went there in the first place, instead of keeping her RCA deal. She left Big Machine in 2018 after the reputation album and tour, in part because he still wouldn't sell her back the masters. At the time, the only viable offer on the table was, once again, from UMG. Swift jumped to Republic Records (a UMG label) with a deal that gives her complete ownership of her music and her videos. IMO, I think she may have believed that she could buy her music from UMG if they bought Big Machine. The $300M offer from Braun's investment group was unexpected; and immediately accepted. Swift was in London, and asleep, when the announcement was made; her father is a stockholder, but didn't accept the NDA requirement for participation in the call, so wasn't part of it. The aftermath was the public dispute over her masters, which expanded due to her personal dislike of Braun (she met him because she took Justin Bieber (opening act) to a stadium tour stop in Boston, and two arenas in London in 2009. And, Kanye is part of it because Braun became the manager for West just before the renewal of the West/Swift feud, which is very very bitter. This is a business dispute, but for Swift, it is extremely personal (her music is like her diaries), and it rapidly expanded to other celebrities, and even to death threats from fans directed at Braun, his family, and Borchetta and the BMLG employees. And the whole business of not permitting her to perform her music at the AMA awards (where she was the Artist of the Decade) was a dispute over money because ABC was going to stream it; which Big Machine called re-recording the music. As part of the pressure on Swift to pay them more money, they also refused to license music for her Netflix documentary. And then BMLG said that was all a lie; and Swift's publicist published the email trail that proved Borchetta and Big Machine were doing what she said they were doing. This is two for one this year---twice, Swift is called a liar by a large community on the internet, and twice is proven to be telling the exact truth. Sadly for them, the whole thing really pissed off Swift. As the original writer of the lyrics, and as the original performer, and co-producer of much of her music, she makes a lot more money from her prior music and videos (royalties) than most artists. But she also holds legal copyright on the songs as the writer---they NEED her consent to ANY commercial use of her music in advertising or supermarket playlists, which is where the real money from the masters comes from. And, she said specifically in September that she is NOT going to let them use her music in any way other than normal music sales/streaming. Basically, she said "Fuck You Forever" to both Big Machine and Ithaca Holdings. Oh, also think about how this song ties into My Tears Richochet (about how her relationship with Borchetta crumbled) and later, when you get to it, to Hoax.
I think the other comments about what the song is about, lile the specific events are accurate. But, after watching her Long Pond Sessions on Disney+, I also think this is also about how frustrating it is to be angry as a woman. If you actually yell or show anger in normal ways, like how men do it, people call you crazy and mad and act like the fact that your angry is some horrible sin, not that the person who has been harassing you or obstructing you or whatever it is has done anything wrong. So, as a woman, you are conditioned to be nice and soft spoken And acquiescent, and if you stray from that norm, people will make sexist, personal attacks and ignore what's making her mad completely. And so the song has this steady, increasing, rhythmic rage that is subdued under sweet piano and soft spoken words. Your noticing that rock anger is loud and fast, which this isn't, is very spot on.
Yeah, I think someone posted a similar comment or someone was talking to me about this.. anyway, I’m not a woman so I don’t know how this feels. But the music makes sense from what you just explained! I’m listening to it rn ! 🤯🤯
@@ohef17 @oh-ef I think the song is as good a way of explaining how that feels as anything else; and like, you did notice the difference between normal hot/fast anger and how this song feels. So, while you may not have experienced that you do get it on some level and as a woman, I do appreciate that. It's a specific type of anger and it's not easy to explain to men because it isn't how you experience it. Taylor has a way of gut punching you in the feels so you experience things that aren't necessarily in your own life. LOL Pretty remarkable.
I imagine this song to be portraying the "calm before the storm", or like a seething anger. Not the kind of anger like i'm gonna jump on you and break your neck type of anger but more like trembling and shivering while plotting 1001 ways of murder type of anger. Imagine a psychopath madness; they're characterised to be extraordinarily charming to put up a front covering their sickening emotions. We've got used to the normal kind of anger, yelling and screaming in frustration like those metal & rock music, but this is a whole different level of madness. The thing is, this type of anger is more common among women. We generally don't like to express anger physically, compared to men. Women are stereotyped to be 'crazy' and 'dramatic' whenever they're angry (think of "girls on period" or "drama queen" jokes) thus the song specifically addressed mad WOMAN and not 'man' or 'person' in general. Scooter Braun really "took everything from her" and then tried to play the nice guy while people around him (especially his wife) "doing the dirtiest work for him" in making Taylor the crazy one.
@@ohef17 In 2016, Kanye released the song Famous which had the lyric 'I think Taylor and me might still have sex, I made that bitch famous'. He claimed she had given him permission on the phone, she denied it. Then Kim released an edited version of the phone call to make Taylor look like a liar. The whole internet exploded with hundreds of thousands of hate tweets (many featuring snake emojis) being sent to Taylor and she ended up going into hiding for like a year. This is the backstory to her album reputation. Earlier this year, the full phone call was released and it showed that Taylor had been telling the truth the whole time.
It's clearly a commentary about the demonisation of women without considering the circumstances that could have caused them to have a strong emotional reaction, circumstances that in many cases can rationally explain their behavior. It's a song that tries to argue that women (just like men) should also be allowed to express their anger and negative emotions, in an assertive way, not be forced to repress their frustrations or pain or endure being betrayed or disrespected until they explode or develop mental disorders. It also mentions about how calling women "crazy" or "insane" every time they are defending or protectin themselves is misogynistic. And finally, it points out that women often also demonise other women withoit giving them the benefit of the doubt or listening to their side of the story, this sometimes is due to them having internalised mysoginy or being envious or jealous. In short, this song is a commentary about women's right to express their anger without being demonised for it.
You should react to her Long Pond Studio Sessions. She does the whole Folklore album live, plus explains what each song means in between. It's amazing.
I kow this is old but this is bout scooter brown. He’s stated that he was “willing to sit with her and sell her her music if she signed a contract BEFORE stating she would never say anything wrong about him”. So this is the answer to that, then we have the continuation with vigilante shit (his wife sued for divorce and he was also sued for corruption)
And IDKW but knowing how she works, I’m pretty sure that “no one likes a mad woman” is a sentence that came out of Scooter’s mouth and she’s reframed it for this song.
Like others have said this is about Scooter Braun she let all of her feelings about Kim/Kayne out on her album Reputation however in Peace she has the funny lyric "clowns to the west" which is shade towards them so she still doesn't like him but not at this deep seething level anymore.
I love that; “clowns to the west,” since K&K live on the west coast, and are acting like damned clowns. And “Robbers to the east” as in Scooter and Scott stealing her music. It’s so clever.
You should watch the Long Pond Sessions during the recording of this album. It's not just about Scooter Braun and his wife. It's also about Kanye and his wife Kim but, imo, it's really the most about Scott Borchetta who is really the person who betrayed her since he was supposed to be on her side but sold her out to her arch nemesis. He's rumoured to be gay yet he is married and the song implies he's cheating on his wife.
No shade, you've made a good faith effort. If you're not a woman, there are levels you're not going to get. It's a specific experience. In terms of real life context, Kanye/ Kim play a part, Scooter and losing her masters was immediate, but I think it's just everyone who's called her crazy since she was a gd teenager.
This song is definitely about Scooter, when Taylor came out with the truth about him and Scott, Scooter's wife posted on social media attacking Taylor for it, and using very sexist terms and accusations to do it. And a lot of the people noticed that the style of "her" writing and everything sounded just like Scooter had written it himself and made her post it, which he probably did. Also "took everything from me" Scooter bought the masters to all of her first 6 albums, when she was denied the opportunity to do it, simply out of spite. Also because Scooter and Scott did this deal behind her back, then made horrible public jokes about her, then Scooter was like, "oh, no, she's just being crazy, and I'm here trying to be civilized" so he basically did call her a mad woman. He said he had "all good intentions" and she was being unreasonable and crazy and wouldn't talk to him.... Meanwhile he had a lot artists signed to him and his wife calling her all kinds of names and or just making posts on his defense. So he "poked the bear till the claws came out" then went around saying she was the unreasonable mad woman, and he was just trying to be a nice guy. He's despicable.
Dude,this song makes a lot more sence to me now❤️❤️, thank you
It could also be about Kim and Kanye, but idk.
@@marbles9241 the line in 2nd verse: And women like haunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you, it's obvious that wanted me dead has really brought you 2 together, could be about Kim and Kayne and also about Scooter and his now ex - wife Yael. Both did her dirty and really hurt her and used their wifes to hurt her even more. And that haunting witches part could also be about Karlie Kloss who was her best friend until she sided with Scooter. The line it's obvious that wanted me dead has really brought you 2 together could also be about Scooter and Scott Borchetta. I think she's talking about all of these 6 people at once, because those are people who hurt her the most in her career.
I think this song is about how society views women expressing their anger. When she says, “ no one likes a mad woman, you made her like that”, people don’t like “mad woman” but they are the reason she is mad. Hope that makes sense.
this is exactly what i thought when i first heard the song
I think it's about Scooter and her wife and even her ex-friend Karlie Kloss defending Scooter. Hence the line "women like hunting witches too"
@@bhaveshl26 that’s such a broad line tho? that could also mean how women perpetuate stereotypes and internalized misogyny
@@sasham6960 Yes, agreed. That's what Taylor is trying to address. There are some particular lines that makes me think it's directed towards Karlie.
I liked what you said about how in rock songs angry songs are faster. To me this feels more like a burning, seething quiet kind of anger. Like the kind that fuels a grudge. As opposed to an angry shouting in the moment kinda thing. I don’t know if that makes sense. But I hadn’t really thought about how it’s a different kind of angry song until you said that and you’re right.
Ooooo yes! 😯 I like how you described it! 💯
Ties with the line “taking my time”
The song addresses several issues in her dispute with her label over her masters. She said in an interview last fall that she tried for 10 years (ie. since 2009 and her Fearless World Tour) to recover her masters, but Scott Borchetta wouldn't sell them back (they rapidly became the biggest cash flow for the record label due to commercial licensing.) He started trying to sell the company in 2012, when he turned down an offer from UMG for $200M US. (This was when her Red album became her third bestselling album of the year, second to have a million US sales in a week). Borchetta's determination to retain ownership of the masters, combined with his determination to sell the Big Machine Label Group to outsiders, was a major violation of the initial trust that was part of why she went there in the first place, instead of keeping her RCA deal.
She left Big Machine in 2018 after the reputation album and tour, in part because he still wouldn't sell her back the masters. At the time, the only viable offer on the table was, once again, from UMG. Swift jumped to Republic Records (a UMG label) with a deal that gives her complete ownership of her music and her videos. IMO, I think she may have believed that she could buy her music from UMG if they bought Big Machine. The $300M offer from Braun's investment group was unexpected; and immediately accepted. Swift was in London, and asleep, when the announcement was made; her father is a stockholder, but didn't accept the NDA requirement for participation in the call, so wasn't part of it. The aftermath was the public dispute over her masters, which expanded due to her personal dislike of Braun (she met him because she took Justin Bieber (opening act) to a stadium tour stop in Boston, and two arenas in London in 2009. And, Kanye is part of it because Braun became the manager for West just before the renewal of the West/Swift feud, which is very very bitter. This is a business dispute, but for Swift, it is extremely personal (her music is like her diaries), and it rapidly expanded to other celebrities, and even to death threats from fans directed at Braun, his family, and Borchetta and the BMLG employees.
And the whole business of not permitting her to perform her music at the AMA awards (where she was the Artist of the Decade) was a dispute over money because ABC was going to stream it; which Big Machine called re-recording the music. As part of the pressure on Swift to pay them more money, they also refused to license music for her Netflix documentary. And then BMLG said that was all a lie; and Swift's publicist published the email trail that proved Borchetta and Big Machine were doing what she said they were doing. This is two for one this year---twice, Swift is called a liar by a large community on the internet, and twice is proven to be telling the exact truth.
Sadly for them, the whole thing really pissed off Swift. As the original writer of the lyrics, and as the original performer, and co-producer of much of her music, she makes a lot more money from her prior music and videos (royalties) than most artists. But she also holds legal copyright on the songs as the writer---they NEED her consent to ANY commercial use of her music in advertising or supermarket playlists, which is where the real money from the masters comes from. And, she said specifically in September that she is NOT going to let them use her music in any way other than normal music sales/streaming. Basically, she said "Fuck You Forever" to both Big Machine and Ithaca Holdings.
Oh, also think about how this song ties into My Tears Richochet (about how her relationship with Borchetta crumbled) and later, when you get to it, to Hoax.
13 views 13 minutes.... Taylor would be proud
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Tayvoodoo is real guys
This is about Scooter Brain and his wife defending him going after Taylor - women like hunting witches too doing your dirtiest work for you
I think the other comments about what the song is about, lile the specific events are accurate. But, after watching her Long Pond Sessions on Disney+, I also think this is also about how frustrating it is to be angry as a woman. If you actually yell or show anger in normal ways, like how men do it, people call you crazy and mad and act like the fact that your angry is some horrible sin, not that the person who has been harassing you or obstructing you or whatever it is has done anything wrong. So, as a woman, you are conditioned to be nice and soft spoken And acquiescent, and if you stray from that norm, people will make sexist, personal attacks and ignore what's making her mad completely. And so the song has this steady, increasing, rhythmic rage that is subdued under sweet piano and soft spoken words. Your noticing that rock anger is loud and fast, which this isn't, is very spot on.
Yeah, I think someone posted a similar comment or someone was talking to me about this.. anyway, I’m not a woman so I don’t know how this feels. But the music makes sense from what you just explained! I’m listening to it rn ! 🤯🤯
@@ohef17 @oh-ef I think the song is as good a way of explaining how that feels as anything else; and like, you did notice the difference between normal hot/fast anger and how this song feels. So, while you may not have experienced that you do get it on some level and as a woman, I do appreciate that. It's a specific type of anger and it's not easy to explain to men because it isn't how you experience it. Taylor has a way of gut punching you in the feels so you experience things that aren't necessarily in your own life. LOL Pretty remarkable.
This song is definitely about scooter and Scott. “Wanting me dead has really brought you two together”.
I imagine this song to be portraying the "calm before the storm", or like a seething anger. Not the kind of anger like i'm gonna jump on you and break your neck type of anger but more like trembling and shivering while plotting 1001 ways of murder type of anger. Imagine a psychopath madness; they're characterised to be extraordinarily charming to put up a front covering their sickening emotions. We've got used to the normal kind of anger, yelling and screaming in frustration like those metal & rock music, but this is a whole different level of madness.
The thing is, this type of anger is more common among women. We generally don't like to express anger physically, compared to men. Women are stereotyped to be 'crazy' and 'dramatic' whenever they're angry (think of "girls on period" or "drama queen" jokes) thus the song specifically addressed mad WOMAN and not 'man' or 'person' in general. Scooter Braun really "took everything from her" and then tried to play the nice guy while people around him (especially his wife) "doing the dirtiest work for him" in making Taylor the crazy one.
I love that you do song by song so we can see your reaction to every line. Instead of chopped parts.
I do what I can! I hate when I have to chop 😤
people says this song either about kim and kanye or scott and scooter
Or scooter and his wife😳
Can u do her whole discography? And not song by song but the full albüm reaction? It would be amazing
I’ve haven’t done that before, so I might try it out! 😊
oh-ef YES PLS! Reputation whole album
Bro this is my fave on the album. The harshness reminds me of early 2000s Dixie Chicks.
I had been hooked on season 2 of Dirty John when this came out, and all I think of when I hear it now is Dan and Betty Broderick. It fits it well.
And yes this Was about what Kanye and Kim did to her with altering her audio conversation.
Audio conversation?
Actually, no. it about scooter and scott. "wanted me dead really brought you two together"
@@micaelacardosocharles8501 I’m sure it has a lot of inspiration
@@ohef17 In 2016, Kanye released the song Famous which had the lyric 'I think Taylor and me might still have sex, I made that bitch famous'. He claimed she had given him permission on the phone, she denied it. Then Kim released an edited version of the phone call to make Taylor look like a liar. The whole internet exploded with hundreds of thousands of hate tweets (many featuring snake emojis) being sent to Taylor and she ended up going into hiding for like a year. This is the backstory to her album reputation.
Earlier this year, the full phone call was released and it showed that Taylor had been telling the truth the whole time.
'you took everything from me'
'brought you two'
I think its about Scooter and Scott..
It's clearly a commentary about the demonisation of women without considering the circumstances that could have caused them to have a strong emotional reaction, circumstances that in many cases can rationally explain their behavior. It's a song that tries to argue that women (just like men) should also be allowed to express their anger and negative emotions, in an assertive way, not be forced to repress their frustrations or pain or endure being betrayed or disrespected until they explode or develop mental disorders. It also mentions about how calling women "crazy" or "insane" every time they are defending or protectin themselves is misogynistic. And finally, it points out that women often also demonise other women withoit giving them the benefit of the doubt or listening to their side of the story, this sometimes is due to them having internalised mysoginy or being envious or jealous.
In short, this song is a commentary about women's right to express their anger without being demonised for it.
So we’re just not gonna speak on the looks he was serving in this video-? Okay 😤
You have no business being this handsome..
You should react to her Long Pond Studio Sessions. She does the whole Folklore album live, plus explains what each song means in between. It's amazing.
Taylor said that for her the music on the track is a representation of female rage, how it's quiet and builds, so that's why its slow
I kow this is old but this is bout scooter brown. He’s stated that he was “willing to sit with her and sell her her music if she signed a contract BEFORE stating she would never say anything wrong about him”. So this is the answer to that, then we have the continuation with vigilante shit (his wife sued for divorce and he was also sued for corruption)
And IDKW but knowing how she works, I’m pretty sure that “no one likes a mad woman” is a sentence that came out of Scooter’s mouth and she’s reframed it for this song.
"I just wanted to let you know that"
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Jk huhu so precious
Like others have said this is about Scooter Braun she let all of her feelings about Kim/Kayne out on her album Reputation however in Peace she has the funny lyric "clowns to the west" which is shade towards them so she still doesn't like him but not at this deep seething level anymore.
I love that; “clowns to the west,” since K&K live on the west coast, and are acting like damned clowns. And “Robbers to the east” as in Scooter and Scott stealing her music. It’s so clever.
This song is about Scooter Braun and his wife...there is bad blood now because he owns her first 6 albums
You should still upload the reaction to invisible string :)
I agree, maybe as a review/thoughts on it, rather than a reaction!
I think I will! Just need to add the music
@@ohef17 YES!
I'd love to see it even without music!!
Have u reacted to her reputation album?
You should watch the Long Pond Sessions during the recording of this album. It's not just about Scooter Braun and his wife. It's also about Kanye and his wife Kim but, imo, it's really the most about Scott Borchetta who is really the person who betrayed her since he was supposed to be on her side but sold her out to her arch nemesis. He's rumoured to be gay yet he is married and the song implies he's cheating on his wife.
Just add the multimedia song to the video for invisible string. You can edit it like strip it down so you wont get striked by copyright.
No shade, you've made a good faith effort. If you're not a woman, there are levels you're not going to get. It's a specific experience.
In terms of real life context, Kanye/ Kim play a part, Scooter and losing her masters was immediate, but I think it's just everyone who's called her crazy since she was a gd teenager.
React her best song "all too well"
UNNECESSARY???? ARE YOU FUDGING ME RIGHT NOW???
You pegged it. The instrumental and the melody sound like a sweet song, but the lyrics are seething. It’s off-putting, for sure.