Taylor Swift — known for her preppy, girl-next-door songs — has been pushing the boundaries of music. Not only has she set world records by becoming one of the youngest, most successful artists in our world today, but she has also made history as one of the few artists to successfully switch music genres and continue a successful music career.

Following feuds with both Katy Perry and the Kardashian-West family, Swift has been kind of silent recently, including deleting all her social media this summer and staying away from almost all media, online and print. After weeks of anticipation from fans, cleverly dubbed Swifties, their greatest hopes came true; Swift has released a new single, and it’s got a whole new reputation.

The single entitled “Look What You Made Me Do,” from her new album “Reputation” (release date Nov.10) is something almost horrific. Featuring plinking piano, and later transitioning into dark, electronic music, “Look” is straight out of a Halloween movie. It certainly doesn’t help that the lyrics sound as if they were the words of a psychopath.

While it is clear the song is a diss track at one enemy or another, most suspect Katy Perry and the Kardashian-West family, the lyrics suggest that Taylor is done with red lips and love-struck songs about heartbreak, and her new album is going to be one of uncontrolled anger. Chanting lines about karma and betrayal, the song is obviously the words of someone who is done being pop culture’s “good girl.” From suicide snakes to biting diamond necklaces, Swift is a new, dark-minded woman, just as the lyrics “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ’cause she’s dead,” suggest.

That’s not where it ends, though. Lyrics like “Another day another drama, drama. But not for me, all I think about is karma,” contradict the whole point of the diss track, which usually tend to circulate drama further. She goes on to not only chant the line “look what you made me do” over and over and over, but to add in the terrifying line that she will be starring in your bad dreams.

While I’ll give some points for her excellent use of symbolism, the overall message the song sends is not one that makes a lot of sense or does the artist justice. No one but yourself makes you do anything, and the message the lyric video sends, with gravestones, snakes, and horrifying writing (that frankly resembles blood) is just a tactic to make people think that something big and bad is happening. Instead, the song, lyrics and video, is just petty.

Not only were the lyrics just terrifyingly horrible, but the musical quality that Swift usually gives fans is nonexistent in “Look.” Swift has wonderful vocals, we’ve all heard them, but in “Look,” the lack of her amazing vocals is appalling. She sings here and there, but the majority is just adding some tone to her voice or talking in rhythm, but no real singing is heard. The dark song seems as if it were made for a whole different artist.

Overall, the song set the dark reputation for her new album “Reputation,” and fans be warned, there is no more style to the music like in her albums “1989” and “Red” or even her earlier album “Speak Now.” This dark style of music can be great, when done right.

While some artists have perfected this style of music (think Britney Spears), Taylor might need some practice before demanding we all see just what she did.