The impact Game of Thrones’ has reached a whole new level after Taylor Swift admitted the show inspired the songs on her 2017 album, Reputation.
A lot of fans had already noticed the fact Taylor seemed to be channeling Arya Stark when her track, Look What You Made Me, first dropped and now the singer has confirmed that her obsession with the show crept into the music she made during that era.
Taylor started watching the series in 2016 and became an instant fan, binge-watching the first five seasons of the show and becoming enthralled by the characters and stories George R. R. Martin has created.
‘So much of my imagination was spent on Game of Thrones. At the time, I was making reputation and I didn’t talk about it in interviews, so I didn’t reveal that a lot of the songs were influenced by the show,’ she told Entertainment Weekly.
‘These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a Game of Thrones filter. Look What You Made Me Do is literally Arya Stark’s kill list… Cersei vibes, too. Daenerys as well.’
She continued: ‘I Did Something Bad I wrote after Arya and Sansa conspire to kill Littlefinger’.
But it wasn’t just her revenge focused songs that were inspired by the show as she admitted King Of My Heart was influenced by Khal Drogo and Daenerys’ love story.
‘It’s even got this post-hook of drums — I wanted them to sound like Dothraki drums,’ she explained.
Tay is known for adding clues to her songs, videos, and social media posts for fans to uncover but she admitted the series made her even ‘more cryptic’.
She said: ‘My entire outlook on storytelling has been shaped by [Thrones] — the ability to foreshadow stories, to meticulously craft cryptic story lines.
‘So, I found ways to get more cryptic with information and still be able to share messages with the fans. I aspire to be one one-millionth of the kind of hint dropper the makers of Game of Thrones have been.’
In fact, Taylor says she feel ‘lucky’ to have been able to enjoy the phenomenon that the show has become around the world.
‘You find yourself identifying with different characters several times an episode. You go from hating someone to loving someone,’ she explained. ‘You see someone as cold, and then you see the reasons behind why they do what they do. I just feel so lucky to exist when Game of Thrones is coming out.’
Same Taylor, same.
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