Taylor Swift has released a brand new single called You Need to Calm Down.
This comes after the singer had shared on Instagram that her 7th studio album, Lover, will be dropping on the 23 August.
In the first verse of the song, has Swift checks out her own social media mentions: “You are somebody that I don’t know / But you’re takin’ shots at me like it’s Patron / And I’m must like, damn, it’s 7 a.m. / Say it in the street, that’s a knockout / But you say it in a tweet, that’s a cop-out.”
At another point in the song, Taylor sings: “You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace/And control your urges to scream about all the people you hate/‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay.”
You Need to Calm Down arrives two months after Taylor released her Brendon Urie-featuring single ME! A music video for the new single is slated to drop June 17. Swift’s last album, Reputation was released in 2017.
Taylor explained the meaning behind her new single in a brief video posted on Twitter by Beats 1. “I’ve observed a lot of different people in our society who put so much energy and effort into negativity,” Taylor says in the clip. “And it made me feel like, ‘you need to just calm down.’”
Watch that below.
