--- title: Internet reactions to Taylor Swift Lyric About a Tilted Stage description: A pointed lyric in Taylor Swift's new song "Look What You Made Me Do" has fans wondering if it's directed at her pop culture nemesis, Kanye. canonical: https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-25T17:56:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:48.261Z og:title: This Line From Taylor Swift's New Song Proves It's About Kanye og:description: The Kanye-Taylor feud may be back og:url: https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e80a96676e8173c/6988db2b86f68e371d6e627e/taylor-swift-kanye-west-tilted-stage-lyric.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Backstage And Audience og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Line From Taylor Swift's New Song Proves It's About Kanye twitter:description: The Kanye-Taylor feud may be back twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e80a96676e8173c/6988db2b86f68e371d6e627e/taylor-swift-kanye-west-tilted-stage-lyric.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why the Internet Is Convinced This Line From Taylor Swift's Song Is About Kanye West  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 25, 2017 5:56 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 08: Kanye West and Taylor Swift attend The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 08: Kanye West and Taylor Swift attend The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)Kevin Mazur—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 25, 2017 5:56 PM UTC While her [pointed use of snake imagery](http://time.com/4914211/taylor-swift-snakes-timeline/) as promotion for [her new album _Reputation_](http://time.com/4911005/taylor-swift-new-music-details/) suggests that Taylor Swift may be addressing her [longtime feud with Kanye West](http://time.com/4411055/kanye-west-taylor-swift-kim-kardashian-feud/) with new music, the first single off the album, “[Look What You Made Me Do](http://time.com/4913298/taylor-swift-look-you-made-me-do-reactions/),” contains a clue that the Internet believes is more direct. Swift cuts to the chase with with her opening lyrics: “I don’t like your little games/ I don’t like your tilted stage/The role you made me play: of the fool/No, I don’t like you.” The line about a tilted stage quickly caught the attention of the Internet, which collectively pointed out that on Kanye’s recent Saint Pablo tour, he notably performed on a floating stage that tilted back and forth. > [](https://twitter.com/hectxrmedrano/status/900941937502334978) > [](https://twitter.com/illicitboy/status/900927291303264260) While Swift didn’t explicitly call out West, this isn’t the first time that the pop princess has used coded lyrics to send a message to her foes, so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that it’s about him. She’s sent plenty of dispatches via song in the past, [most notably with “Bad Blood,” a song that is widely recognized as a diss track to another of her feud subjects, Katy Perry.](http://time.com/4771017/katy-perry-bad-blood-response-new-album/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/"},"headline":"Why the Internet Is Convinced This Line From Taylor Swift's Song Is About Kanye West","datePublished":"2017-08-25T17:56:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:48.261Z","description":"The Kanye-Taylor feud is back","url":"https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","Kanye West","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e80a96676e8173c/6988db2b86f68e371d6e627e/taylor-swift-kanye-west-tilted-stage-lyric.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e80a96676e8173c/6988db2b86f68e371d6e627e/taylor-swift-kanye-west-tilted-stage-lyric.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Backstage And Audience","caption":"The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Backstage And Audience","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4916160/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyric-kanye-west/","name":"Why the Internet Is Convinced This Line From Taylor Swift's Song Is About Kanye West"}}]}] ```