A break down of Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do music video
13 black crows flying overhead (0:05)
TS initials in lights (0:10)
‘Here Lies Taylor Swift’s Reputation’ carved on the gravestone followed by a zombie Taylor in the blue Out of the Woods dress, climbing back up from the dead (0:21)
Tilted headstones, a reference to Kanye West’s titled floating stage (0:27)
Nils Sjoberg, the pseudonym Taylor used to co-write This Is What You Came For with ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris, can be seen on a gravestone (0:29)
A “dead” Taylor wearing her 2014 Met Gala ball gown, being buried by zombie Taylor (0:34)
The $1 note in the bathtub which she won from her recent sexual assault trial (0:35)
All snake references to being referred to a snake in the media following the Kanye West “Famous” outbreak - rings, snakes slithering up the staircase, on her earrings, on the throne etc
“Et Al Brute” on the staircase and her throne, a term used to express surprise and dismay at the treachery of a supposed friend (0:58)
A Maserati car crashing in the street, a reference to the first line of her song Red (”Loving you is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street”), another reason to things dead/death (1:06)
Katy Perry-esque style clothing, and a cheetah (a reference to Roar), while sitting in the crashed Maserti surrounded by photographers (1:19)
Holding a Grammy in her hand (1:20)
Swinging in a cage surrounded by people, a metaphor for feeling trapped/guarded (1:23)
The dancers that duck down and the others wearing cat masks totals 13 people (1:35-1:42)
Dressed as a cat/cat lady, wearing a mask to hide herself (1:38)
Bad Blood video style clothing/vibes, another Katy Perry reference (1:43)
She robs a bank titled ‘Stream Co.’, referencing how everyone says she’s money-hungry since when she removed her money from Spotify and the Apple Music letter (1:49)
The word “Squad” flashed on screens as she looks down and leads a crowd of “plastic” women, all wearing similar wear to the Bad Blood music video, referencing how everyone kept categorising her friends as a ‘Squad’ (1:53)
Eight dancers stood behind her in a row, a reference to the main 8 past “lovers” she has been connected to over the years - Joe Jones, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor Kennedy, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, and Tom Hiddleston (2:16)
Dancers wearing ‘I Love TS’ croptops, a reference to a shirt Tom Hiddleston wore on July 4th last year (2:18)
Standing on top of all past versions of herself, from the You Belong With Me video, Shake It Off video, WANEGBT video, Fearless Tour, The Red Tour, Out of the Woods etc, as she declares ‘The Old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now because she’s dead” (2:29-2:59)
An Old Taylor wearing the sparkly white jumpsuit she wore to the Billboard Awards in 2015, where she spent most of the event with Calvin Harris (2:31)
An Old Taylor from her Fearless tour days, with 13 painted on her hand (2:31)
The names of all her “squad” friends are on her Junior Jewels t-shirt (2:37)
Her new album title Reputation spray painted on a plane (3:39)
The ending dialogue using past versions of the Old Taylor, mocking herself using digs/jokes/comments that have been preveiously made about her “fake” surprised face, being a diva, being called a bitch, “playing the victim”, hissing like a snake, “getting receipts” to edit a video later (Kaney ref), and FINALLY a 2009 VMA Taylor asking to be “excluded from this narrative” (3:39-4:10) NOT ALL MY CONTENT, ADDED TO FROM officialtaylornation
