Taylor Swift premiered “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version),” a re-recorded version of the hit single from her 2017 studio album, Reputation, on an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale tonight (May 19). The track appeared in the ninth episode of season six. She has not yet released the song online or on streaming services, nor has she announced the full album Reputation (Taylor’s Version). Check it out below.
“I’ve been wanting to use a Taylor song for many years on the show and we finally found the perfect spot for a track from her, and I’m so glad we waited because there could not be a more perfect song for a more perfect moment,” Elisabeth Moss, the lead star and executive producer of the series, told Billboard. “Taylor has been such an inspiration to me personally. As a Swiftie myself, and I think I can speak for [co-star] Yvonne [Strahovski] and our entire cast as well, who are all Swifties, it’s such an honor to be able to use her music in the final episodes of our show.”
Featuring her singles “Look What You Made Me Do” and “…Ready for It?,” Reputation was Swift’s fifth No. 1 album and her final release for Big Machine Records, which had issued all of her previous LPs. It earned Swift just one Grammy nomination, for Best Pop Vocal Album, but she ultimately lost to Ariana Grande and Sweetener. Swift recorded one part of Reputation with producer Jack Antonoff, but she did the bulk of it with Max Martin and Shellback. She also enlisted Future and Ed Sheeran for “End Game.”
So far, Swift has re-released four of her albums: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) arrived in 2021, while updates of Speak Now and 1989 were released in 2023. Swift began to re-record her pre-Lover material, in 2019, after Scooter Braun acquired her catalog by purchasing the Big Machine Label Group. In a 2022 interview with NPR, Braun said that he had “regrets” over how the deal panned out.
Between her re-recorded albums, Swift has continued to release new material, issuing her 10th original album, Midnights, in October 2022. Her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, followed in April 2024. She recently wrapped up her record-breaking Eras Tour, which spanned the globe and lasted multiple years.
