--- title: Taylor Swift 'Ready for It' Video Takes Game of Thrones Turn description: Fans are comparing Taylor Swift's "Ready for It" look to the White Walkers in Game of Thrones. canonical: https://time.com/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-27T15:49:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:19.543Z og:title: Fans Think Taylor Swift's New Video Is Very Game of Thrones og:description: You know nothing, Taylor Swift fans og:url: https://time.com/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaed87fdfb8853846/6988e3a7196cf48874042832/screen-shot-2017-10-27-at-10-42-32-am.png?branch=production&width=948&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 948 og:image:height: 533 og:image:alt: Taylor-Swift-Ready-for-It og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fans Think Taylor Swift's New Video Is Very Game of Thrones twitter:description: You know nothing, Taylor Swift fans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaed87fdfb8853846/6988e3a7196cf48874042832/screen-shot-2017-10-27-at-10-42-32-am.png?branch=production&width=948&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift's New 'Ready for It' Music Video Took an Unexpected _Game of Thrones_ Turn > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a3a3f964-1661-437c-a66d-98db9b66a608&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 27, 2017 3:49 PM UTC  Taylor Swift  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 27, 2017 3:49 PM UTC With just two weeks to go until the release of [_Reputation_](http://time.com/4944028/taylor-swift-reputation-album-theories/), [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/4998566/taylor-swift-lookalike-2/) sent the Internet into a frenzy yet again on Friday by dropping the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIft-t-MQuE) for her song [“Ready for It.”](http://time.com/5000102/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-reactions/) Although fans had begun theorizing about the [hidden messages](http://time.com/4998649/taylor-swift-fan-theory-ready-for-it/) in the video even before its debut, one seemingly _Game of Thrones_\-inspired moment took some Swifties by surprise. In the final seconds of the new visual, Tay looks directly into the camera as her eyes turn an electric blue similar to the eye color of the White Walkers in the HBO drama. “Okay so my main takeaway from the [#ReadyForItMusicVideo](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadyForItMusicVideo?src=hash) is that [@taylorswift13](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13) is a White Walker, and tbh I was ready for it,” Twitter user [@kendallllla](https://twitter.com/kendallllla) wrote. There is also an earlier scene in which Swift sits atop an armored horse that is apparently giving some viewers major Night King vibes. “I THOUGHT [@taylorswift13](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13) IS THE WHITE WALKER FROM GAME OF THRONES,” user [@Crystelemenopi](https://twitter.com/Crystelemenopi) captioned a screenshot of the moment. > [](https://twitter.com/kendallllla/status/923764690773086208) > [](https://twitter.com/Crystelemenopi/status/923773094686101504) See some of the Westerosi reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/%5FDRaval/status/923810288226279425) > [](https://twitter.com/realVivekTiwari/status/923914674386608129) > [](https://twitter.com/lkovmenardd/status/923844856782512128) > [](https://twitter.com/aliciakram/status/923766043272769536) > [](https://twitter.com/hcmoreland7/status/920853908112707584) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift's New 'Ready for It' Music Video Took an Unexpected Game of Thrones Turn","datePublished":"2017-10-27T15:49:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:19.543Z","description":"You know nothing, Taylor Swift fans","url":"https://time.com/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","Music","viral","Taylor Swift","Music videos","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaed87fdfb8853846/6988e3a7196cf48874042832/screen-shot-2017-10-27-at-10-42-32-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaed87fdfb8853846/6988e3a7196cf48874042832/screen-shot-2017-10-27-at-10-42-32-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor-Swift-Ready-for-It","caption":"","creditText":"Taylor Swift","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/5000177/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-video-game-of-thrones-white-walker/","name":"Taylor Swift's New 'Ready for It' Music Video Took an Unexpected Game of Thrones Turn"}}]}] ```