The Handmaid’s Story has Swifties clamoring for an additional Taylor Swift rerelease album after the Hulu collection prominently featured “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model)” in its newest episode this week, stirring hypothesis that Popularity (Taylor’s Model) is lastly on the way in which.
The rerecorded track opened the penultimate episode of the whole Hulu collection and performed as a fiery anthem to Elisabeth Moss‘ June main a gaggle of handmaids after they pulled off a main coup of their resistance motion towards Gilead (the fascist regime that overthrew the U.S. authorities within the dystopian collection). The ninth episode, titled “Execution,” featured some main deaths (learn The Hollywood Reporter‘s spoiler postmortem right here) and was directed by Moss and written by co-showrunner Eric Tuchman.
Swifties have been speculating that the singer-songwriter may very well be saying Popularity (Taylor’s Model) on the American Music Awards subsequent week. This isn’t the primary time “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model)” has been featured on tv; it additionally was featured in a trailer for Amazon’s Wilderness again in 2023, although the size in Handmaid’s Story was way more in depth.
“I’ve been wanting to make use of a Taylor track for a few years on the present, and we lastly discovered the proper spot for a observe from her, and I’m so glad we waited as a result of there couldn’t be a extra excellent track for a extra excellent second,” Elizabeth Moss mentioned in an announcement to THR about that includes the observe. “Taylor has been such an inspiration to me personally. As a Swiftie myself, and I believe I can communicate for Yvonne [Strahovski] and our total solid, who’re all Swifties, it’s such an honor to have the ability to use her music within the closing episodes of our present. I mentioned to my editor, Wendy [Hallam Martin], ‘I actually need to discover a place for a Taylor observe within the final two episodes of the present,’ and we wished to discover a music queue for the opening of 9. All of the credit score goes to Wendy for choosing this observe for this second!”
Handmaid’s Story editor Wendy Hallam Martin added: “In attempting many songs for this particular second in our collection, and figuring out how a lot Lizzie wished a robust feminine voice and message, Taylor was actually the artist that delivered each lyrically and tonally. Our badass predominant character June on this scene actually was saying, ‘Look what you made me do,’ and the track couldn’t have been extra on level. An ideal pairing.”
Popularity (Taylor’s Model) can be the fifth of six anticipated Swift re-records, with Swift’s 2006 eponymous debut the one different album remaining from her authentic cope with former file label Large Machine. Began from controversy from the dispute over her masters, the re-recordings have change into a serious success for Swift in their very own proper, as 1989 (Taylor’s Model), for instance beat out the unique album’s first-week gross sales and was one of many best-selling albums of 2024.
The Handmaid’s Story, in the meantime, now heads into its collection finale, which releases Tuesday, Might 27.
