Taylor Swift updates lyrics to two Reputation tracks on Apple Music

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Taylor Swift has subtly changed lyrics to two songs from her Reputation album.

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The popstar made the revisions to the lyrics of two tracks — I Did Something Bad and Delicate — on Apple Music, which updated Swift’s records to Dolby Atmos sound on Dec. 12.

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In the original version of I Did Something Bad from her 2017 album, Swift sang, “But if he drops my name, then I owe him nothin’ / And if he spends my change, then he had it comin.’”

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The updated version has been changed to “If a man talks s—, then I owe him nothin’ / And if he calls me a b—- then he had it comin.’”

In the song Delicate, Swift sang, “Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you / Oh, damn, never seen that colour blue.”

Those lyrics have been changed to “Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you / Goddamn, never seen that colour blue.”

The revisions come six months after Swift announced she had bought back her music catalog, giving her control of her first six albums.

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Swifties on social media were quick to suggest that Reputation (Taylor’s Version) could be on the way.

One fan wrote on X, “REPUTATION TV IS SILENTLY ROLLING OUT??? I FORGIVE U MISS SWIFT OMG.”

After buying back her masters in May 2025, Swift spoke about re-recording Reputation in a letter to fans.

“I know, I know,” she wrote. “What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”

She added, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by doing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch.”

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