So it’s safe to say that pop music juggernaut Taylor Swift has used her most recent album, Reputation, and the publicity leading up to the release, as something of a reinvention.
A massive part of Tay-Tay‘s hype around her sixth album is about her engagement with / lack of interest in / reclamation of her reputation (duh).
One particular narrative that she’s very much been including herself in has been that of Taylor the Snake. After Kim Kardashian famously posted footage to Snapchat that appeared to show Taylor agreeing to Kanye West‘s controversial verse about her – which Swift had previously publicly decried – people started using the snake emoji with wild abandon to disparage the pop star for being, well, a snake.
Because she’s Taylor Swift and essentially untouchable, though, she took that snake emoji and started using it all over the damn place – as did her fans. Snakes are in her imagery, her videos, her tweets – and now, on her performance on tonight’s Saturday Night Live, on her god damn microphone.
Snake mic appreciation tweet. #TaylorOnSNL pic.twitter.com/RLp5pEcBHH
— Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 12, 2017
Like clockwork, her vast fanbase has gone absolutely bananas over this move.
https://twitter.com/SwiftieGirl96/status/929578108679843840
Taylor Swift teaching me how to build a castle out of all the bricks thrown at me with a SNAKE MIC. Hahahaha! 🐍🐍🐍 pic.twitter.com/Pxl4VBmFqP
— Mac Dionisio (@Benggadora08) November 12, 2017
I AM LIVING FOR THIS ERA AND IT JUST STARTED🐍🐍🐍🐍 @taylornation13 #TaylorOnSNL
— zita ♡ ERAS TOUR PITTSBURGH NIGHT 1 (@zitaswiftie13) November 12, 2017
Taylor isn’t playing around this era and she’s got the snake mic to prove it 🐍 #TaylorOnSNL @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 pic.twitter.com/wWxOWM1cAB
— “Are you Amber???” (@NewYearsTay) November 12, 2017
PLEASE BRING THE SNAKE MIC ON TOUR #TaylorOnSnl #reputation @taylorswift13
— emma (taylor’s version) (@shookswiftie) November 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/tswiftnation/status/929577563504218112
Swift performed ‘…Ready For It?‘ (which you can watch below thanks to a good soul on Twitter) and an acoustic version of ‘Call It What You Want‘. If that mic is anything to go by, she’s making this appearance count.
THE VOCALS THE CHOREOGRAPHY THE VISUALS THE OUTFIT EVERYTHING IM NOT READY FOR THIS #TaylorOnSNL pic.twitter.com/i8Wl83FwOf
— juls (@swiftkjn) November 12, 2017
Tea-lor Swift indeed.
