Taylor Swift: I made my Reputation album through a Game of Thrones filter

Entertainment Weekly

Swift says she didn't start watching the HBO drama until 2016, but "I didn’t reveal that a lot of the songs were influenced by the show" while promoting Reputation in 2017. “These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a Game of Thrones filter,” Swift tells EW. “‘Look What You Made Me Do’ is literally Arya Stark’s kill list. ‘King of My Heart’ was influenced by Khal Drogo and Daenerys. It’s even got this post-hook of drums — I wanted them to sound like Dothraki drums.” Swift says she also wrote lines based on plots from Season 7 right before the record dropped. “‘I Did Something Bad’ I wrote after Arya and Sansa conspire to kill Littlefinger,” she says. That and “Look What You Made Me Do,” she adds, “are very Cersei vibes, too. Daenerys as well.” Swift says she never told any Game of Thrones cast members about the show's impact on her, but she did tell creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss at a party. “I was sitting there going, ‘Do I tell them? Is that weird?" says Swift. "No one asked for this information.’ (But) one of the first things they said was ‘Our daughters love your music.’ I’m like, ‘This is my in.’”