Tonight, the music video for Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" premiered and in among the scary zombie lewks and dead old Taylors, was―surprise! (surprise?)― a Tom Hiddleston ref. And not any ole Tom Hiddleston ref, the best Tom Hiddleston ref.
Remember his "I ♥ T.S." tank from last summer? Well, of course you do:
It was a meme-light of the summer for everyone―except of course for Hiddles himself, who probably didn't enjoy being the butt of all the jokes since, as he told GQ in a later interview, the whole thing was just a joke:
"The truth is, it was the Fourth of July and a public holiday and we were playing a game and I slipped and hurt my back. And I wanted to protect the graze from the sun and said, 'Does anyone have a T-shirt?' And one of her friends said, 'I've got this.' " The friend pulled out the "I ♥ T.S." tank top that Taylor's friends are contractually obligated to own. "And we all laughed about it. It was a joke."
So that's his statement on the entire relationship: an explanation of the tank top. "It was a joke," he repeats. "Among friends."
Anyway, if you'd thought you'd seen the end of the "I ♥ T.S." tank era, you thought wrong, for it appeared again on Taylor's backup dancers in the new video:
But are you surprised? It seems no one is safe in Taylor's reckoning... not even Old Taylor.
Sally is the Editor-in-Chief of InStyle. Prieviously, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire. She came to Marie Claire from ELLE.com, where she was the Executive Editor. Before that, Sally was at New York Magazine's The Cut and graduated with an English major from Boston College. Her favorite Harry Potter is Order of the Phoenix.
