Taylor Swift‘s new track “imgonnagetyouback” from The Tortured Poets Division is drawing comparisons to Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Get Him Again!” — and plenty of followers are evaluating it to their earlier battle with “Merciless Summer time” and “Deja Vu.”
Swift’s new track, which seems on the second half of her shock double album The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology, contains a play on phrases with the time period “get you again.” Will she get again collectively along with her man or will she get revenge?
On the refrain Swift, 34, sings: “Whether or not I’m gonna be your spouse or / Gonna smash up your bike, I haven’t determined but / However I’m gonna get you again / Whether or not I’m gonna curse you out or / Take you again to my home, I haven’t decidеd but / However I’m gonna get you again.”
It instantly sparked comparisons to Rodrigo’s track, “Get Him Again!” wherein the 21-year-old makes use of related wordplay. The one, which she debuted in September 2023, options Rodrigo singing within the refrain, “I wanna get him again / I wanna make him actually jealous, wanna make him really feel unhealthy / Oh, I wanna get him again / ‘Trigger then once more, I actually miss him, and it makes me actual unhappy / Oh, I would like candy revenge.”
Getty Pictures (2) Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo could have taken one step ahead and three steps again. Rodrigo grew up as a self-proclaimed “diehard” fan of Swift, first overlaying her songs on the age of 4. After Rodrigo’s track “Driver’s License” from her debut album, Bitter, hit No. 1 on the charts in January […]
Followers on social media shortly identified the similarities. “Taylor having ‘imgonnagethimback” and Olivia having ‘get him again’ are like two completely different age views on the identical dilemma … and that’s stunning,” one X consumer wrote whereas one other quipped, “imgonnagetyouback by taylor swift and get him again! by olivia rodrigo are the identical track simply in numerous fonts.”
Olivia Rodrigo 🤝 Taylor Swift
getting them again— megan (@FEMININ0MENON) April 19, 2024
Some music lovers have identified that Rodrigo and Swift aren’t the primary to make use of the wordplay. Fiona Apple‘s 2005 track “Get Him Again” performs with the identical double-meaning.
Others, nonetheless, couldn’t assist recalling the drama of Rodrigo being pressured to share royalties with Swift.
“Wait so Taylor made Olivia Rodrigo give her track writing credit score on Deja Vu as a result of it kinda gave the impression of Merciless Summer time. Is Olivia gonna get a credit score as a result of imgonnagetyouback has the identical conceit as Get Him Again?” one commenter requested.
A second added, “i really like taylor however she stole your complete premise of get him again so i imagine olivia must be the one getting writing credit now.”
Rodrigo grew up as a self-proclaimed “diehard” fan of Swift, and the “Fortnight” singer confirmed her help by sending Rodrigo a handwritten notice with personalised presents to rejoice the success of “Driver’s License” in early 2021. Rodrigo regularly gushed over Swift whereas selling her music, however their friendship could have hit a bitter notice when “Deja Vu” was launched as Rodrigo’s second single in April 2021.
Swift — together with cowriters Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent — had been retroactively credited on the observe as a result of similarities to Swift’s “Merciless Summer time.” Billboard reported that Rodrigo had given up “tens of millions” in royalties on the track.
Don Arnold/TAS24/Getty Pictures Taylor Swift has followers (and Us Weekly staffers) busy with the discharge of 31 songs throughout two variations of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division. Swift, 34, dropped TTPD on Friday, April 19, dropping the primary 16 songs at midnight EST. Two hours later, she introduced and launched The Tortured […]
She and Swift haven’t publicly interacted since, and she or he claimed she didn’t deal a lot with the authorized situation. “It’s not one thing that I used to be tremendous concerned in,” she advised Rolling Stone in September 2023. “It was extra team-on-team. So, I wouldn’t be the perfect particular person to ask.”
She admitted that she “was somewhat caught off guard” by the sudden additions to her songwriting credit, together with Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Josh Farro getting retroactive credit score on “Good 4 U” after comparisons to “Distress Enterprise.”
Rodrigo added, “On the time it was very complicated, and I used to be inexperienced and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.”
Nevertheless, she maintained that there’s no feud with Swift. “I don’t have beef with anybody,” she stated. “I’m very chill. I preserve to myself. I’ve my 4 mates and my mother, and that’s actually the one folks I discuss to, ever. There’s nothing to say.”
