Taylor Swift Reacts to Penn Badgley Utilizing Her Track for ‘You’ Joke

Antiheroes unite! Penn Badgley hopped on a social media development and used a Taylor Swift track to make a joke about his character on You.

Within the 35-year-old Gossip Lady alum’s Monday, October 24, TikTok publish — his first ever on the platform — he runs away from an unseen villain as Swift’s track “Anti-Hero” performs. After opening his entrance door, he sees himself standing outdoors, dressed as his murderous character from the collection, Joe Goldberg. “It’s me,” the actor, as Goldberg, lip syncs. “Hello,” the true Badgley replies, waving reluctantly. Mouthing the phrases to the pop single, Goldberg factors to himself and says, “I’m the issue, it’s me.”

Swift, 32, authorized of the interpretation of the monitor, writing, “OMG!!!! ?, ” within the feedback. The Grammy Award winner — who launched her latest album, Midnights, on Friday, October 21 — has challenged her followers to a YouTube Shorts contest based mostly on the “Anti-Hero” music video.

“The #TSAntiHeroChallenge is all about acknowledging and celebrating the traits that make every of us really distinctive and showcasing one’s true self in a FUN approach,” a weblog publish printed by YouTube reads, encouraging entrants to show “an anti-heroic trait” equivalent to “all the time grabbing the final slice of pizza.”

In a video shared to Instagram earlier this month, the “Delicate” singer described the Midnights lead single as “certainly one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written.” She went on to clarify how private the message of the track is to her.

“I actually don’t suppose I’ve delved this far into my insecurities on this element earlier than. You realize, I wrestle so much with the concept my life has turn out to be unmanageably sized. … To not sound too darkish, however I wrestle with the concept of not feeling like an individual. However don’t really feel unhealthy for me. You don’t have to,” she stated.

The Pennsylvania native added, “This track is an actual guided tour all through all of the issues that I are likely to hate about myself.”

Along with her newest launch, Swift broke the Spotify document for most-streamed album in a single day. “How did I get this fortunate, having you guys on the market doing one thing this thoughts blowing?!” the Folklore musician wrote through Twitter of the milestone. “Like, what even simply occurred??!?!”

The “All Too Properly” artist revealed how Midnights got here collectively together with her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. “We’d been toying with concepts and had written a number of issues we liked, however Midnights really actually coalesced and flowed out of us when our companions (each actors) did a movie collectively in Panama,” she wrote through Instagram on Friday. “Jack and I discovered ourselves again in New York, alone, recording each night time, staying up late and exploring previous recollections and midnight’s previous.”

Swift and Joe Alwyn, who cowrote the track “Candy Nothing” on Midnights, first went public with their relationship in Could 2017. Antonoff, 38, for his half, has been linked to Margaret Qualley since they have been noticed kissing in New York Metropolis in August 2021. They seemingly confirmed their engagement through Instagram in Could.