Taylor Swift Sings About Being ‘Thick As Thieves’ With An Enemy’s ‘Ex-Wife’ On New Song ‘Vigilante S***’

Taylor Swift is “dressing for revenge” connected the scathing caller track, “Vigilante S***,” from her 10th workplace album, Midnights. The song, which is the lone self-written way connected the album, is Taylor singing straight astatine 1 of her nemeses. However, it isn’t until the 2nd verse that jaws truly drop. “She needed cold, hard proof, truthful I gave her some,” Taylor sings. “She had the envelope, wherever you bladed she got it from? Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride. Picture maine heavy arsenic thieves with your ex-wife.”

There person been plentifulness of radical who scorned Taylor implicit the years, but 2 of them just-so-happened to spell done precise nationalist divorces successful the past 2 years: Scooter Braun and Kanye West. Kanye and Kim Kardashian divided successful Feb. 2021, portion Scooter and Yael Cohen called it quits successful July 2021. Taylor and Kim person besides feuded successful the past, but their issues each stemmed from Kanye. Meanwhile, Yael stood up for Scooter aft Taylor publically called him retired erstwhile helium bought her masters from Scott Borchetta successful 2019. It’s unclear, though, whether Taylor made bully with either of these women down the scenes.

Taylor and Kim had a falling retired aft Kim defended Kanye implicit his song, “Famous,” successful 2016. (Stephen Lovekin/David Fisher/Shutterstock)

In the span of “Vigilante S***,” Taylor continues to sing astir the powerfulness of women uniting against a antheral who scorned them. “Ladies ever emergence above, ladies cognize what radical want,” she croons. “Some are saccharine and benignant and fun, the ladies simply had enough.” She past gets circumstantial with allegations against the unidentified taxable of the song, continuing, “He was doing lines, and crossing each of mine, idiosyncratic told his achromatic collar crimes to the FBI.”

Scooter and Yael finalized their divorcement successful 2022. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

The chorus of “Vigilante S***” is each astir getting revenge, which Taylor said was 1 of the things that has “kept her up astatine night” implicit the years, yet inspiring Midnights. “I don’t commencement s*** but I tin archer you however it ends,” Taylor sings. “Don’t get sad, get even. So connected the weekends, I don’t formal for friends, lately I’ve been dressing for revenge.”

In summation to this scathing song, Midnights besides features 12 different marque caller songs. The medium was inspired by “13 sleepless nights” passim Taylor’s life, truthful immoderate of the themes and subjects interaction backmost connected years’ past. However, determination are besides songs, similar “Lavender Haze” and “Mastermind,” that sermon her existent narration with Joe Alwyn.