Taylor Swift is sending her fans into a tizzy yet again. On Thursday night, so-called Swifties on social media noticed something strange about the singer’s 2017 album Reputation: specifically, that lyrics from two songs had mysteriously changed.

Multiple surprised fans shared the changes to tracks “I Did Something Bad” and “Delicate” on social media. On “Delicate,” a song about wanting to be careful with a new romance, Swift typically sings, “Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you/ Oh damn never seen that color blue.” But on the new version of the song, the line is “Goddamn never seen that color blue.” 

“I Did Something Bad,” a song about embracing the negative reputation that comes from standing up to people who have wronged her, has a bigger tweak. The original song features the line, “But if he drops my name, then I owe him nothin’/ And if he spends my change, then he had it comin.” Her new line goes, “And if he calls me a bitch then he had it comin.”

What’s behind the change? As fans noticed, the songs were included in the version of Reputation with Dolby Atmos sound, which is intended to create a three-dimensional soundscape. The Dolby Atmos tracks were released by Apple Music on Dec. 12 — the same day Swift released the first two episodes of her Eras tour documentary.

The singer was previously on a mission to rerecord and release her first six albums after she was unable to purchase her master recordings. Instead, they were sold to producer Scooter Braun, whom she accused of “incessant, manipulative bullying.” Swift, whose 2018 deal with Universal Music Group and Republic Records allows her to own her masters outright, released so-called “Taylor’s Versions” of albums Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989 between 2021 and 2023.

However, in a letter to fans posted on her website back in May 2025, she revealed she purchased her own masters from Shamrock Holdings, the equity firm that had previously bought them from Braun. Though she wrote that she recorded her first album, a self-titled work fans refer to as “debut,” she said she had not even rerecorded half of Reputation yet.

“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,” Swift wrote in her letter. “All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first six that I thought couldn't be improved upon redoing it. Not the music, or photos or videos. So I kept putting it off.”

Swift also wrote that the vault tracks from Reputation — aka songs that she cut from the album originally — could be released at another time, should fans want them.

Swift did release at least one “Taylor’s Version” Reputation track: “Look What You Made Me Do,” which appeared in a May 2025 episode of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.