Taylor Swift fans are still clamoring - and clowning - for the rerecorded version of Reputation. Despite Swift shutting down the long-held rumors on multiple occasions, renewed hope swept through her fan base in December 2025 thanks to Apple Music. Eagle-eyed fans noticed that the streaming service quietly tweaked the lyrics to the 2017 LP's "I Did Something Bad" and "Delicate." While Us Weekly can confirm the lyrics were changed, Swift has not shared whether the new lines could mean a new Taylor's Version record is on the way. "I Did Something Bad" and "Delicate" are two of 15 tracks on Reputation. It was Swift's last album with Big Machine Records. Her former label sold her discography to a third party, Scooter Braun, two years later without allegedly giving the Grammy winner a chance to buy the work. Taylor Swift Breaks Silence on Status of 'Reputation' and 'Debut' Rereleases Swift subsequently planned to rerecord her first six albums under a Taylor's Version designation. She released new versions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now and 1989 with additional "from the vault" tracks, leaving rerecorded iterations of Reputation and her self-titled 2006 debut album unreleased. Braun sold the masters to Shamrock Capital in 2020 before Swift brokered a deal to buy her entire catalogue in May 2025 thanks to the proceeds from her record-breaking Eras Tour. Keep scrolling to find out why fans think Reputation (Taylor's Version) is in development - and the likelihood of it actually happening: There Have Been Several Updated 'Reputation' Songs The Handmaid's Tale fans noticed that a snippet of a new version of "Look What You Made Me Do" was featured in the penultimate episode of the final season. "I said to my editor, Wendy [Hallam Martin], 'I really want to find a place for a Taylor track in the last two episodes of the show,'" show star Elisabeth Moss told Billboard in May 2025. "We wanted to find a music queue for the opening of [episode] 9, and all the credit goes to Wendy for picking this track for this moment! I've been wanting to use a Taylor song for many years on the show and we finally found the perfect spot for a track from her, and I'm so glad we waited because there could not be a more perfect song for a more perfect moment." Seven months later, Apple Music adjusted the lyrics to "Delicate" and "I Did Something Bad." The new "I Did Something Bad" lyrics read, "If a man talks s***, then I owe him nothin' / And if he calls me a bitch, then he had it coming," replacing "I don't regret it one bit" with "And if he calls me a bitch." Then, on "Delicate," the line now says, "Goddamn, never seen that color blue," instead of "Oh, damn." The "Delicate" lyric tweak, however, was not included in Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show, which dropped on Disney+ in December 2025. The concert movie was filmed during the very last show of the tour in December 2024. What Taylor Swift Has Said About Rerecording 'Reputation' Swift told Time in her 2023 Person of the Year profile that the Reputation vault tracks were "fire," only to reveal two years later that the LP was still a work in progress. "I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it," Swift wrote in a May 2025 letter while announcing she received ownership of her masters. "The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief." She continued, "To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first six that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music or photos or videos. So, I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you're into the idea) for unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch." Swift did share that Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) had been completed without revealing whether that would leave the vault. "Those two albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about," the Life of a Showgirl artist said. "But, if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I could have. It will just be a celebration now." Taylor Swift Loves Owning Her Masters During her December 2025 appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Swift once again mentioned her love for Reputation. "I used to have this very strange conflicted feeling of hearing the song '...
Ready for It?,' [thinking], 'This goes so hard.' It was a strange conflicted feeling of, 'Those are my memories and that's when I was going through that,'" she said. "A recording is such a snapshot of where you are in your life."