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Taylor Swift Confirms the 'Gorgeous' Baby Is James Reynolds


There’s one element to Taylor Swift’s song “Gorgeous” that people have been talking about for weeks: the baby’s voice at the beginning. I mean that literally, by the way; the song begins with an actual baby cooing the word “gorgeous.” Seconds after the song dropped, fans started theorizing about the identity of this child, who was quickly dubbed on social media the “‘Gorgeous’ Baby.” Some Swifties thought it was her godson; others even posited it was North West. (Can you imagine?) But the dominant hypothesis out there was that the “‘Gorgeous’ Baby” was James Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s eldest daughter—which makes sense. Reynolds and Lively are close friends with Swift, after all, so it’s not implausible to think they’d allow James to lend her 2-year-old pipes to the song.

And those super-fans were right: Baby James is the child whose voice you hear on “Gorgeous.” The production credits on the song, which became available after Swift dropped Reputation late last night, list James next to “baby intro voice.” See it for yourself, below:

Case closed, my friends. Let’s be honest: James’ voice is the best part of “Gorgeous.” Fingers crossed this is the start of a very successful career making cute cameos in female pop stars’ songs. Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga—hell, everyone—would seriously benefit from adding a little Baby James to their music. She’s coming for the charts, people. Watch out.

Reputation is now available to download.

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Taylor Swift Shares the Songwriting Process Behind 'Gorgeous' in This New Video


If you’ve been furiously googling “Who is Taylor Swift‘s ‘Gorgeous’ about” for the past week (while also trying to get the song out of your head), we may finally have the answer.

On Wednesday Swift released a behind-the-scenes video showing the making of “Gorgeous.” In it, she basically spends six minutes playing around with the lyrics of the song’s first verse at various instruments, and TBH, it isn’t the most riveting piece of content she’s ever released. (This is a girl who recently dressed up as naked cyborg version of herself, after all.) But there is one very important piece of information in the video that may settle the “Who is this damn song about?” debate for good, and it all has to do with the song’s most controversial lyric, which was apparently changed between the original and final version.

The phrase that made it into the song (and sparked a million Swift vs. Harris comment wars on social media) is “I’ve got a boyfriend, he’s older than us / he’s at the club doing I don’t know what.” It makes it seem like she’s referencing Calvin Harris, the DJ she dated in 2015. He’s older than she is, it’s his job to be at a club…the shoe more or less fits. But as we learn from the behind-the-scenes footage, the line was originally written as, “I’ve got a boyfriend, he’s older than us / I haven’t seen him in a couple of months.”

Watch, below:

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Could this be the peak into Hiddleswift folklore we’ve been waiting for?

Swift already confirmed that the gorgeous fellow in the song is her current boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. But fans have still been left confused about the timeline of who she was dating when she met him. Alwyn and Swift allegedly met at a Kings of Leon concert four months after she and Calvin broke up, which is why the “in the club line” was such a head-scratcher. My personal theory? The song is really about falling in love with Alwyn while she was dating Tom Hiddleston, and in true T. Swift style, she changed the lyric on the recorded version to keep it purposely vague.

The Reputation album debuts on November 10, so even though this mystery may finally be figured out, there is a lot more googling in our futures.

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This Taylor Swift Fan Theory Explains Why She Put a Baby's Voice in 'Gorgeous'


Taylor Swift doesn’t sing the first word in her new song “Gorgeous”—a baby does. Like, a literal baby. No one knows whose baby this is. Maybe it’s Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold’s toddler, James. (That’s the popular theory right now, at least.) Maybe it’s a showbiz baby whose job is to say cute words in pop stars’ songs. Is this the same baby who Madonna Autotuned crying for her unreleased song “Autotune Baby?” The one who tells Christina Aguilera she “owns the throne” in “Vanity?” Who knows, man. Your guess is as good as mine.

One mystery fans are making headway in solving, however, is why Swift chose to include a baby’s pipes in “Gorgeous.” It’s a strange choice at first listen, but a closer look at the song’s lyrics helps connects the dots.

In the song, Swift waxes poetic about how she’s furious she can’t act on her feelings for a new guy because she has a boyfriend. “You should take it as a compliment/That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk,” she sings at the top of the track. “You should take it as a compliment/That I’m talking to everyone here but you,” she muses later. These are both pretty immature ways to deal with emotion—it’s almost like she’s back in high school—but a Reddit user theorizes this is completely intentional. Yup.

According to them, this is Swift’s way of showing that love and crushes can easily turn adults into babies. They lose sight of logic and simply obsess over what they want but can’t have—just like a young child complains about wanting candy or toys or a later bedtime. To drive this point home even further, Swift added an actual baby’s voice to the song. She’s the baby here, according to the Reddit user. (Well, that’s what this dude’s turning her into, at least. And, let’s be honest, we’ve all been there.)

Here’s the theory in the Redditor’s words:

“She realizes that she’s extremely attracted to him and interested in
him, but also acknowledges that these thoughts are wrong considering
she is not broken up with the other guy,” the Redditor writes. “This
seems like a scenario that could happen to any person, at any
age…She also admits there is nothing she wants more than what she
can’t have, like a child upset over not getting a toy that they want.
They continue, “Yes, these feelings of displacing blame on another
person and viewing someone as a thing she can’t have are childish. But
that still doesn’t mean at 27 she can’t feel them. I think the child’s
voice in the beginning is no coincidence but an allusion to her
self-awareness that these feelings are pretty juvenile.”

Makes sense, right? Leave it to Swift to turn a baby’s coos into social commentary.

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Taylor Swift Told Fans Her New Song 'Gorgeous' Is About Joe Alwyn


An FBI-level investigation ensues whenever Taylor Swift releases a new song. When “Look What You Made Me Do” came out, fans spent hours decoding the lyrics and writing theories. They did the same for the music video and also for “…Ready for It?,” her second promo single, which dropped the next week. There’s a lot to unpack with these releases, too: Swift is a crafty wordsmith. She has a knack for writing lyrics that seem obvious at first but actually have secret, mysterious meaning.

And the same thing can be said for “Gorgeous,” the track she released last night. However, fans won’t have to give up their weekends figuring out the subject of this one: Swift already spilled the beans.

Well, she (allegedly) spilled the beans to the 300 fans who attended her Reputation secret listening sessions. One of those lucky Swifties took to Tumblr and wrote, “Basically Taylor made us all promise that if anyone made any accusations of who this song is about, we tell them it is 100 percent about her angel boyfriend of one year. This isn’t a secret. She wanted us to tell people.” (Swift’s been dating actor Joe Alwyn for a year.) See their post for yourself, below:

It’s great Swift’s being so transparent about “Gorgeous,” but, honestly, the lyrics aren’t that tough to crack. “You should take it as a compliment / That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk,” she sings at one point. (Alwyn is British.) “And I got a boyfriend, he’s older than us / He’s in the club doing, I don’t know what,” she sings again. Alwyn is 26, and the two men who Swift could be referring to as her boyfriend—Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston—are both older than him, though our money’s on Harris, considering he’s one of the highest-paid DJs in the world. Regardless, it’s pretty obvious “Gorgeous” is about Alwyn—but, hey, at least now we know for sure.

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Taylor Swift Just Released an Insanely Catchy New Song Called 'Gorgeous'


Taylor Swift is single-handedly saving pop music in 2017. The 27-year-old first sent top 40 radio into a tizzy in August when she released “Look What You Made Me Do,” a slinky techno banger that’s arguably her darkest effort to date. She followed this up with “…Ready For It?,” a lighter, more summery track with rapped verses and an incredibly uplifting chorus. But that was more than a month ago, and pop has turned back into a dry, depressing wasteland. Where are the jams? Where are the anthems?

Music lovers have been stalking Swift’s social media channels for weeks, waiting for the moment when she announces the next song off her album, Reputation, due out November 10. They know she’s the only one who can deliver the goods.

And she finally has with a new, insanely catchy track off Reputation called “Gorgeous.” It’s exactly the kind of fizzy, delightful tune we need in these bop-less times. Listen, below:

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Swift first teased “Gorgeous” on Instagram Thursday afternoon. “Available everywhere midnight tonight Eastern,” she wrote, along with a five-second snippet of the track (which, oddly, features a baby saying the word “gorgeous”).

Several diehard fans who’ve attended Swift’s Reputation secret listening sessions say “Gorgeous” is one of the best songs on the album. Some flat-out think it’s the best. Here’s are just some of the reactions we found on Twitter.

Sonically, “Gorgeous” is right on par with “Look What You Made Me Do” and “…Ready For It?” It’s electronic and poppy, but slightly left of center—pushing the genre forward in unexpected, but very satisfying, ways. After listening to it, we’re more than confident that Reputation will be one hell of a ride.

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