Song
I Knew You Were Trouble
Red · 2012 · Track 4
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Karl Johan Schuster, Max Martin
Produced byMax Martin, Karl Johan Schuster
Also known as: IKYWT
the power-flip: now she is the one flying men away
“Flew me to places I'd never been”
“Grab your passport and my hand” — Blank Space
Community readers hear a reversal across the catalogue. In I Knew You Were Trouble the speaker is flown to places she had never been, swept up and then dropped; in Blank Space she is the one issuing the invitation, telling the man to grab his passport and her hand. The earlier song's passive object of someone else's adventure becomes the later song's director of it.
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