Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is finally streaming, and unsurprisingly, fans are resonating with the singer’s lyrics about past love and frustrations with her exes. Merely days after the rerecord dropped, a new trend emerged on TikTok, centered around the vault song “Now That We Don’t Talk.”
At only two minutes and 26 seconds, “Now That We Don’t Talk” digs into the good and bad of no longer having a relationship with an ex (who’s probably Harry Styles in Swift’s case). Swift sings about “missing the old ways” and not wanting her ex to change — but, as she says, “guess I don’t have a say / now that we don’t talk.”
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In the outro of the song, Swift revels in the plus-sides of no longer being in that relationship:
I don’t have to pretend I like acid rock /
Or that I’d like to be on a mega yacht /
With important men who think important thoughts /
Guess maybe I am better off now that we don’t talk
TikTokkers, particularly women, have flocked to the platform to create their own version of this verse. As creators sing the actual lyrics, they caption the videos with their own experiences — such as no longer needing to pretend to like Kanye West’s music or baseball games, or not noticing an ex’s receding hairline. The sound, created by TikTokker @victoreeuh, is attached to over 9,000 videos so far, many of them following this trend.
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While most of the videos are about former romantic relationships, as the song is, some may be about friendships, as well:
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“Y’all the girlies are in hell,” commented Twitter/X user @ExquisiteWill in a thread about the trend; honestly, we can’t disagree. Considering Taylor Swift’s impact on TikTok, the videos will likely keep coming. Guess maybe we’re all better off!
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