Taylor Swiftbegan binge-watchingGame of Thronesin 2016.
“I can avoid pretty much any information,” she tells EW.
If you might avoid your own presence, spoilers [are] easy."
Credit: Mert + Marcus; Helen Sloan/HBO
As she reveals here for the first time, the dark and twisted world of George R.R.
Martin began to infiltrate her music.
“So much of my imagination was spent onGame of Thrones,” she says.
(Shout out to EW’s James Hibberd, who called that one.)
Sounds like the recipe for an epic, Westerosi-style plot.
“‘Look What You Made Me Do’ is literally Arya Stark’s kill list.
‘King of My Heart’ was influenced by Khal Drogo and Daenerys.
It’s even got this post-hook of drumsI wanted them to sound like Dothraki drums.”
She also wrote lines based on plots from season 7 right before the record dropped.
Daenerys as well."
Weiss and David Benioffonce at a party.
“I was sitting there going, ‘Do I tell them?
No one asked for this information.’
[But] one of the first things they said was ‘Our daughters love your music.’
I’m like, ‘This is my in.'”
(The showrunners were flattered by Swift’s fandom.)
I aspire to be one one-millionth of the kind of hint dropper the makers ofGame of Throneshave been."
Another reason Swift loves the show is the way it builds characters.
“You find yourself identifying with different characters several times an episode,” she says.
“You go from hating someone to loving someone.
You see someone as cold, and then you see the reasons behind why they do what they do.
I just feel so lucky to exist whenGame of Thronesis coming out.”
So who does she think will end up on the Iron Throne?
“Daenerys, Arya, or Sansa,” she says.
Then what happens to Arya?
“Arya [would] be Hand of the King.”
And then, hopefully, Swift will write an anthem called “Not Today.”
