Song
Call It What You Want
Reputation · 2017 · Track 14
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Produced byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Also known as: CIWYW
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- This Love / Call It What You Want (Eras Tour, Singapore)
- ivy / Call It What You Want (Eras Tour, Munich)
- Our Song / Call It What You Want (Eras Tour, New Orleans)
War / Battle
Incidental
Blood & Violence
“My castle crumbled overnight, I brought a knife to a gunfight”
Personal
rescue plea matured into partnership
“You don't need to save me, but would you run away with me?”
“Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone” — Love Story
Picked up by community readers as a measure of distance travelled: Love Story's teenage speaker begs "Romeo, save me," while the older narrator of Call It What You Want releases her partner from that role — "you don't need to save me" — and asks instead for company in escape. The plea to be rescued becomes an invitation between equals, a shift the hosts themselves flag when they note Taylor would be unlikely to write the earlier line now.
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