--- title: Internet Reacts to Taylor Swift Single With Arya Stark Memes description: Swift's new song "Look What You Made Me Do" includes lyrics that uncannily parallel the 'Game of Thrones' character's own motivations. canonical: https://time.com/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-25T14:47:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:47.492Z og:title: Obviously People Think Taylor Swift Has Gone Full Arya Stark og:description: Her new song "Look What You Made Me Do" does has some Stark-like lyrics og:url: https://time.com/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obviously People Think Taylor Swift Has Gone Full Arya Stark twitter:description: Her new song "Look What You Made Me Do" does has some Stark-like lyrics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Has Spoken and People Think Taylor Swift Is Having an Arya Stark Phase  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 25, 2017 2:47 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 25, 2017 2:47 PM UTC There’s plenty to unpack in the lyrics of the first single on Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album _Reputation_, [“Look What You Made Me Do,”](http://time.com/4913298/taylor-swift-look-you-made-me-do-reactions/) which dropped to much conversation Thursday night. But one line in particular of the revenge-themed pop song is standing out to sharp-eared [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4914279/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ride-daenerys-dragons/) fans. “I’ve got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined / I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!” she sings. There are many references Swift could be making here. Maybe she’s talking about that scene from _Mean Girls_ involving a red-underlined list of names. Then there’s Santa Claus and his nice-or-naughty lists (which, we know, get checked twice). But many are [drawing a stark parallel](http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/25/taylor-swift-arya-stark/?) between Swift and the _Game of Thrones_ fan-favorite character and trained assassin Arya Stark. In season seven, [Arya Stark](http://time.com/4901172/maisie-williams-arya-stark-sisters-fighting-game-of-thrones/), played by Maisie Williams, returns to Winterfell from her training with the Faceless Men in Braavos to continue checking targets off of her kill list. (Watch out, Cersei.) Just a fluke? It’s not just that line: the whole narrative of Swift’s song is about being driven to become a tougher, more invincible naive person after being wronged. “I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me,” a repeated refrain goes, which sounds like something Arya thinks often. The internet has taken note. > [](https://twitter.com/therealbspinksy/status/900940811847651328) > [](https://twitter.com/Miranda%5FNZ/status/900936047999111168) > [](https://twitter.com/samirella8/status/900927590629855232) > [](https://twitter.com/c%5Fmorrell/status/900948569116393476) > [](https://twitter.com/NerdHeather/status/900938815400951809) > [](https://twitter.com/IsabeauMuses/status/900937984119152640) > [](https://twitter.com/mdrndad/status/901048823056936960) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/"},"headline":"The Internet Has Spoken and People Think Taylor Swift Is Having an Arya Stark Phase","datePublished":"2017-08-25T14:47:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:47.492Z","description":"Swift's new song \"Look What You Made Me Do\" includes lyrics that uncannily parallel the 'Game of Thrones' character's own motivations.","url":"https://time.com/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","Music","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4915735/taylor-swift-arya-stark/","name":"The Internet Has Spoken and People Think Taylor Swift Is Having an Arya Stark Phase"}}]}] ```