Taylor Swift debuted “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” in the most recent episode of Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale. The 2017 single, off Swift’s LP Reputation, has been rerecorded and revamped, showcasing a new vocal take from the pop singer.
Swift’s song appears in the opening scene of the penultimate episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, which is coming to an end this season. It soundtracks a group of rebellious handmaids stoically walking in formation.
“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,” star and executive producer Elisabeth Moss said in a statement to 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.”
Moss added, “I said to my editor, Wendy [Hallam Martin], ‘I really want to find a place for a Taylor track in the last two episodes of the show’ and we wanted to find a music queue for the opening of nine, and all the credit goes to Wendy for picking this track for this moment!”
Hallam Martin shared, via Billboard, “In trying many songs for this specific moment in our series and knowing how much Lizzie wanted a strong female voice and message, Taylor was really the artist that delivered both lyrically and tonally. Our badass main character June in this scene, really was saying ‘look what you made me do’ and the song couldn’t have been more on point. A perfect pairing. When I laid the song up against the scene, it just landed perfectly thematically, rhythmically and magically hit all the edit points which sometimes happens if it’s meant to be.”
Swift has been rerecording her initial six albums in an effort to reclaim her masters. She has previously completed Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), and 1989 (Taylor’s Version), but has yet to release Reputation (Taylor’s Version). Last year she teased “Look What You Made Me Do” in an episode of Apple TV+’s The Dynasty: New England Patriots, while “Delicate (Taylor’s Version)” appeared on The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Fans have been speculating that Swift is gearing up for an announcement at the American Music Awards on May 26. Since it has now been two years since Swift unveiled a rerecording she could be planning to offer some news about Reputation (Taylor’s Version).
