Taylor's been hinting at a reinvention this week, and the video for "Look What You Made Me Do" looks all the way back to clear the tables. Four-and-a-quarter minutes of salt and self-parody — the villain and the victim — in a swell of high-production pop references which, to Swift, also count as personal ones, too. The gang's all here: "Thriller," the Red era, crimped-hair-crying, Kardashian bashing, snakes of course...

Read our conversation — in which we suggest Taylor take a cue from professional wrestling — about "Look What You Made Me Do."

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