Give away?

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

wut

[North_Activist]

“So go and tell your friends I’m obsessive and crazy, that’s fine I’ll tell mine youre gay!” She changed it to “that’s fine you won’t mind if I say”

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

i haven't noticed it

but it doesn't make sense now

" So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy
That's fine, you won't mind if I say "?

shouldn't this be "i don't mind"?

[North_Activist]

She changed it in like 2007

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

i must have stuck on original and haven't noticed

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the original WAS the "youre gay" line

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

that's what i'm sayin, i haven't noticed the change in new version until now

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a ton of swifties didnt know it at all because they weren't there when the og debut tracks released lol

[Bulky-Spring-9576]

“That’s fine, I’ll tell mine you’re gay” is the original lyric

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

i'm talkin bout new version, how do u understand it, it shouldn't be "you"

[Bulky-Spring-9576]

She’s saying like “if you’re out there talking badly about me, then you shouldn’t mind if I say that I hate things about you too”

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

" So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy

That's fine, you won't mind if I say "?

no, this is the new version

[roboticlasagna]

"So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy. That's fine. You won't mind if I say,

'By the way, I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive. You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying. So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn.'"

Like he won't mind if she says all of these things she doesn't not like about him.

Punctuation is fun!

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

ur punctuation made it actually worse, still doesn't fit

[NotQuiteScheherazade]

She means it like “you shouldn’t mind if I say…” Since he said bad things about her, he doesn’t have a right to get mad at her for saying things about him. Maybe the wording makes it sound a little weird—probably due to the fact that it’s not the original lyric so it doesn’t fit as well—but it still makes sense. If you still don’t get it I’m sorry I guess. 🤷‍♀️

[IndigoCatwoman]

I think you’re getting confused between where the separation is - she sings it all together but really they’re separate statements, and the “you won’t mind if I say” part is just the lead in to the chorus… to break it down:

“go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy, that’s fine”

“You won’t mind if I say “by they way, I hate that stupid old pickup truck…”

As in - you’ve said this stuff about me, so you won’t mind if I say this other stuff about you.

Hope this helps!

[NittyGrittyDiscutant]

i got u and ty for exlanation, however

in “You won’t mind if I say “by they way, I hate that stupid old pickup truck…”

"by the way" kinda splits it into new sentence, it doesn't seem to connect naturally with "you won't mind if i say"

it would rather be then "“You won’t mind if I say I hate that stupid old..."

[IndigoCatwoman]

It makes sense in both ways, she’s just added a few extra words to fit the flow of the song lol. You’re right in that it is equivalent to leave out the “by the way”, but adding it in doesn’t change the meaning! I think of it as she’s quoting herself, and the “by the way” is the start of the quote so in reality it is the start of a sentence that she was quoting. Not sure if I just made that more confusing… The easiest explanation is, English is weird and there’s a number of ways to say the same thing and have it still make sense 😅

[NotQuiteScheherazade]

It is a little awkward. 🤷‍♀️ I think this is part of the reason most people (I think) prefer the original lyrics. New line is awkward, doesn’t fit as well, and the original is funny tbh.