--- title: Taylor Swift Directs Body Doubles in Behind-the-Scenes Video description: The "Look What You Made Me Do" gives a peek behind the scenes of the making of the music video, including her mountain of other Taylors. canonical: https://time.com/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-20T18:58:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:25.655Z og:title: Taylor Swift Directs Body Doubles in Behind-the-Scenes Video og:description: A look inside the making of the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video og:url: https://time.com/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta608605c2a9abd93/6988db8f7cdbac454dd59c72/taylor-swift-05.jpg?branch=production&width=605&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 605 og:image:height: 340 og:image:alt: taylor-swift-05 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Directs Body Doubles in Behind-the-Scenes Video twitter:description: A look inside the making of the "Look What You Made Me Do" music video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta608605c2a9abd93/6988db8f7cdbac454dd59c72/taylor-swift-05.jpg?branch=production&width=605&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Directs Her Mountain of Taylor Clones in New Behind-the-Scenes Video > Sponsored content. 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In the video, a number of versions of Taylor over the years all come together to form a mountain of clawing, raging young ladies. To make it happen, Swift’s crew employed a collection of Swiftian body doubles and a helpful green screen. “OK, this is the trippiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Swift explains in the set footage as she surveys her sea of platinum-haired lookalikes. “Seeing all of them together is the weirdest feeling… It’s like, ‘Oh that’s a phase I went through when I was 16, but a girl is wearing it who looks just like me.’ But we’re having a great time. We’re all just chatting about life. That’s gotta look weird.” She further explains the premise: “We are all like creating this pile of people who are trying to get to the top, all of whom happen to be like my former selves. Which these girls are so wonderful to, like, do that,” she laughs. Viewers also get a sense of Swift’s artistic confidence on set, as she calls out directions about which forms of Taylor should be involved in catfights that get extra screen time. And, yes, Swift really does lean into her fight scene. “I’m not sure where that came from,” she explains after yelling aggressively in character at one of the other actors. “But you know, you just gotta follow the muse.” We’ll get a better sense of where that muse has taken her when [_Reputation_](http://time.com/4926160/taylor-swift-ready-for-it/), her new album, drops Nov. 10. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Directs Her Mountain of Taylor Clones in New Behind-the-Scenes Video","datePublished":"2017-09-20T18:58:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:25.655Z","description":"The \"Look What You Made Me Do\" gives a peek behind the scenes of the making of the music video, including her mountain of other Taylors.","url":"https://time.com/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta608605c2a9abd93/6988db8f7cdbac454dd59c72/taylor-swift-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta608605c2a9abd93/6988db8f7cdbac454dd59c72/taylor-swift-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"taylor-swift-05","caption":"","creditText":"","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/4950216/taylor-swift-behind-the-scenes-lwymmd/","name":"Taylor Swift Directs Her Mountain of Taylor Clones in New Behind-the-Scenes Video"}}]}] ```