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Taylor Swift Has Actually Been Putting Easter Eggs in Her Music Videos For Years

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Taylor Swift Has Actually Been Putting Easter Eggs in Her Music Videos For Years

August 21, 2019 by Kelsie Gibson First Published: August 29, 2017

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Easter Eggs in Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" Music Video

0:30: The pseudonym Swift used when she cowrote "This Is What You Came For" with ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris is written on one of the headstones in the graveyard.
0:35: In Swift's bathtub of diamonds, there is a single dollar bill, which possibly symbolizes her recent groping court case, in which she counter-sued DJ David Mueller for $1. Her bathtub of jewelry might also be a reference to a statement she made back in 2016 during her "Blank Space" performance at the Grammy Museum about how the media probably thinks she goes home to her mansion and cries in her marble bathtub, surrounded by pearls.
0:55: The chair Swift is sitting on is engraved with the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" which means "Even you, Brutus?" from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Caesar says these words after realizing his friend Brutus played a role in his death, and it is often used when referring to a friend stabbing you in the back. Sounds like Swift is calling out a frenemy (or many, for that matter).
1:19: While Katy Perry often refers to herself as a tiger, we can't help but notice the little "roar" the furry creature makes in the car. It's also worth noting Swift's interesting prop choice of holding a single Grammy award. While Swift has 10 Grammys, Katy (who has been nominated seven times) has zero.
1:35: Swift stages a robbery from a company called Stream Co. This seems to be a jab at her battle with Spotify over streaming her music for free.
1:51: Swift pokes fun at her infamous "squad" and the criticism that all her friends look the same (tall, blond models, etc.) by rounding up an army of robots that she created.
2:17: As Swift takes a power stance, her male backup dancers take off their jackets to reveal cropped tops with the words "I [heart] T.S." on them . . . just like Tom Hiddleston's tank top from their Fourth of July festivities last year. The number of backup dancers also seems to symbolize the number of guys Swift has publicly dated: Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Harry Styles, Conor Kennedy, Jake Gyllenhaal, and John Mayer.
2:37: Swift's "You Belong With Me" self sports her Junior Jewels t-shirt, but if you look closer, it actually has some of her famous friends' names — including Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Este Haim, Lily Aldridge, Abigail Anderson, Gigi Hadid, Martha Hunt, Blake Lively, and Ryan Reynolds — written all over it.
3:50: The "New Taylor Swift" looks over at Zombie Taylor questioning, "What's with that b*tch?" before she immediately retorts, "Don't call me that." This seems to be a reference to Swift's drawn-out statement about Kim Kardashian's Snapchat videos in which she says she didn't give Kanye West permission to call her "that b*tch" in his song "Famous."
3:58: After Fearless Taylor starts sobbing over a remark made by Red Taylor, Biker Taylor rolls her eyes, looks at her nails, and says, "There she goes playing the victim . . . again," seemingly responding to the criticism that Swift has built her whole career on playing the victim.
4:03: As Fearless Swift cries, a Kardashian-esque Taylor records the whole thing on her phone, claiming she's "collecting receipts" and that she will "edit this later." Not only could this be a reference to that infamous Kanye West phone call that we all heard about, but it could also be calling out Katy Perry's "Swish Swish" lyrics about how "karma keeps receipts."
4:06: Pretty perfect that 2009 VMAs Swift would have the last word, seeing that she didn't get the last word when Kanye West stole her mic on stage. Just like her response to Kim Kardashian's Snapchat videos, she says that she would "very much like to be excluded from this narrative."

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