The original lyrics to songs on Taylor Swift‘s Reputation may not have been end game after all. After Apple Music updated all of the pop superstar’s music to Dolby Atmos, fans noticed a few tweaks to a couple of the 2017 album’s most beloved tracks.
The most striking update comes to track three, the explosive “I Did Something Bad.” Rather than the original lyric — “If he spends my change, then he had it coming” — Swift now sings, “If he calls me a b—h, then he had it coming,” according to clips posted on social media by Swifties.
Fans also say they found another change in track five, “Delicate.” Rather than “Oh damn, never seen that color blue,” the 14-time Grammy winner says instead, “Goddamn, never seen that color blue.”
The second switch-up is definitely more subtle, but it definitely creates a noticeable difference in Swift’s vocal delivery.
Billboard has reached out to her rep for comment.
Listeners have no idea why the changes have occurred, but naturally, Swifties are wondering whether it has anything to do with Reputation (Taylor’s Version). The singer’s original eight-year-old album was one of two left in the series of re-records Swift had been rolling out before she reclaimed ownership of her full catalog earlier this year, at which time she revealed that Reputation was the only one of her first six LPs she’d barely started re-doing.
“Full: transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” she wrote in a letter to fans at the time. “The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it.”
That said, Swift also teased that she may still someday unleash the unreleased Vault tracks from the Reputation time period.
Spending four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2017, Reputation endures as one of the most beloved Swift albums among her fans. That much was clear night after night on the musician’s global Eras Tour — whenever she popped out in her black, snake-like bodysuit for the Reputation portion of the show, the crowd’s cheers would spike from deafening to ear-splitting.
Swift is now reliving that magic in The End of an Era, a new Disney+ docuseries that premiered on Friday (Dec. 12) about how she pulled off the historic trek.
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