reputation closer ‘New Year’s Day’, specifically the lyric, “Threw out our cloaks and our daggers/Because it’s morning now.” On ‘’tis the damn season’ she leaves her ex in her hometown, singing, “So I’ll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends/Who’ll write books about me if I ever make it.” Once again, she’s reckoning with the idea of fame versus personal relationships and what’s more important. If we want to get into fan theories, fans have also spotted visual references in the ‘willow’ music video. Swift appears as a witch in the woods while references to pythons can also be found. Both can be linked to the dark aesthetic of