Taylor Swift's first single β "Look What You Made Me Do" β off of her upcoming album, Reputation, has already inspired an impressive variety of reactions from every direction.
Finally got my father to weigh in on @taylorswift13 @jackantonoff single: "I don't trust my body but my body trusts me! Very cool lyrics!"
"Okay ladies now let's gentrification."
Taylor Swift's new song would be great intro music for Tom-Tom's awful magazine redesign pitch in 13 Going on 30
Including the far-right website Breitbart. The site's been tweeting lyrics from the song since 7 a.m. ET on the day of the single's release. "I don't like your little games / Don't like your tilted stage," the first one said, linking to a story about a BBC's coverage of Israel.
I don't like your little games Don't like your tilted stage https://t.co/k87abts5bu
A story about the German magazine Stern depicting President Donald Trump doing the Nazi salute was accompanied with the Swift lyrics, "The role you made me play/ Of the fool, no, I don't like like you."
The role you made me play Of the fool, no, I don't like you https://t.co/F3TlbdqRqO
Another one, about Trump's phone call with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, bore the lyrics, "Honey, I rose up from the dead / I do it all the time."
Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time https://t.co/QWxw70t61I
And they just kept going.
I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined I check it once, then I check it twice, oh! https://t.co/kLlH7PJDwd
And going.
Look what you just made me do Look what you just made me https://t.co/FKb3d05hsU
...and...going.
Look what you just made me do Look what you just made me https://t.co/UAWOCg9WbH
It understandably left many people puzzled.
Breitbart News is currently retweeting the new Taylor Swift song lyrics alongside links to their own articles π€ππ€ππ€π
WHY HAS BREITBART BEEN TWEETING TAYLOR SWIFT LYRICS ALL DAY WTF IS GOING ON
I look away from Twitter for like a day and I come back to Breitbart using Taylor Swift lyrics to attack its enemies in the administration?
Breitbart using Taylor Swift lyrics to defend Trump is the most 2017 thing possible and I am tired of this earth an⦠https://t.co/UNq3lKjNhg
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Breitbart for comment.
CORRECTION
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi's name was misspelled in a previous version of this post.