We are just one week away from the release of Taylor Swift’s next album, Reputation, but she isn’t done teasing fans yet. The singer dropped her fourth—yes, fourth—single from the album on Thursday night (November 2), and get this: It’s a slow jam titled “Call It What You Want.” Unsurprisingly, it’s stunning.
We don’t want to keep you waiting any longer, so listen to it, below, and then we can discuss.
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“Call It What You Want” is certainly feels like a departure from the first three songs Swift released from Reputation (“Look What You Made Me Do,” “Ready for It,” and “Gorgeous”). Those songs were lyrically creative, of course, but they were more sonically-driven than anything. They were total bops, plain and simple: electronic confections with genius, plastic hooks and snappy one-liners. “Call It What You Want,” however, is a softer sound, stuffed with Swift’s signature gut-wrenching lyrics.
Swift first teased the new song on Instagram Thursday morning. She published three posts that included these lyrics: “Holding my breath / Slowly I said / You don’t need to save me / Call it what you want / But would you run away with me / Yes.”
Fans quickly noticed the lyrics seemed to parallel Swift’s 2008 song “Love Story,” in which she laments about wanting a “Romeo” type to save her. On “Call It What You Want,” though, she flips the switch. She doesn’t need saving anymore.
What does need saving, though, is pop music in 2017—and that’s exactly what Swift’s doing with Reputation. The album drops everywhere next Friday, November 10. Get ready.
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