Now go stand in the corner and take into consideration what Taylor Swift I just did.
On July 7, the singer fired Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), a 2010 re-recording of her album featuring several previously unreleased “from the vault” tracks. Nonetheless, one aspect of the album that has already caught Swifties’ attention is a rather altered version of the song “Higher than Revenge”.
The unique recording of the song contained the lyric: “She’s not a saint and he or she’s not what you think that/She’s an actress/She’s higher known for what she does/On a mattress.” Nonetheless, in the new edition of “Higher Than Revenge”, the last two lines, which were dismissed as misogynistic by many listeners over the years, now read “He was a moth to the fire / She held the matches.”
The Grammy Award-winner herself mulled over the controversial original lyrics. “I used to be 18 once I wrote it,” Swift, 33, said Guardian in 2014. “You are at an age where you think that someone could really take your boyfriend. Then you definitely grow up and also you realize that nobody goes to take someone away from you in the event that they don’t desire to depart.”
