Taylor Swift gets her revenge by slamming Kanye West, Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston with cryptic lyrics on new album Reputation
TAYLOR Swift proves she still has bad blood with a number of ex-lovers and A-list enemies.
The record-breaking singer has laced her comeback album, Reputation, with digs at Calvin Harris, Kanye West and Tom Hiddleston.
Kanye West
Taylor lashes out at rival Kanye West in the track, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
Seemingly referencing their brief reconciliation following Kanye's infamous 2009 VMA stage invasion, Taylor sings:
"It was so nice being friends again / There I was giving you a second chance."
Sadly Taylor and Kanye didn't stay friends for long.
In 2016, Kim Kardashian posted a video of Taylor Swift approving lyrics to Kanye's track Famous.
She references the moment in her latest track, singing: "But then you stabbed my back while shaking my hand / And therein lies the issue / Friends don't try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you / And so I took an axe to a mended fence."
Calvin Harris
Taylor dated Scottish producer Calvin Harris from March 2015 to June 2016.
Since the split, Calvin went on a Twitter rant after it emerged Taylor had co-written his hit song, This Is What You Came For.
In what some fans think is a reference to his social media outburst, Taylor sings on I did Something Bad: "If a man talks sh*t, then I owe him nothing / I don't regret it one bit, 'cause he had it coming."
Tom Hiddleston
Taylor began a relationship with Tom Hiddleston just weeks after calling time on her romance with Calvin Harris.
On Getaway Car, Taylor sings: "The ties were black, the lies were white / In shades of grey in candlelight / I wanted to leave him / I needed a reason."
The former lovers are thought to have hit it off at the Met Gala. It's likely that the black tie line was in reference to Tom at the Met Gala and the man mentioned is potentially a nod to her relationship with Calvin Harris coming to an end.
Taylor seems to reference Tom again in King of My Heart, where she sings: "All the boys and their expensive cars / With their Range Rovers and their Jaguars / Never took me quite where you do."
Fans on lyric site Genius were quick to note that Taylor herself drives a Range Rover and Tom Hiddleston drove Swift around in a Jaguar car when they spent time together in England in 2016.
Joe Alwyn
Taylor now seems happy in love with Brit actor Joe Alwyn and the singer seems to reference the blossoming romance throughout Reputation.
On Ready For It, Taylor seems to reference Joe's age in the lyrics: "Younger than my exes, but he act like such a man / I see nothing better, I keep him forever."
Herself
Yes, Taylor Swift even goes as far as to reference her own reputation throughout the record.
She calls out her romantic history on the track Don't Blame Me, writing: "I've been breaking hearts a long time / and toying with them older guys / Just playthings for me to use."
On End Game - her collaboration with close pal Ed Sheeran - Taylor refers to her infamous reputation.
She sings: "Big reputation, big reputation / oh you and me we got big reputations. / I heard about you, you like the bad ones too."
She follows up with: "Reputation precedes me / they told you I'm crazy / I swear I don't love the drama / it loves me."
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