Robert Reacts to Ready For It LIVE (Reputation Tour) + Music Video | Taylor Swift Patreon Exclusive
Welcome to our FIRST official Patreon exclusive reaction!
This week, Robert experiences Taylor Swift’s “...Ready For It?” live from the Reputation Stadium Tour (including the full intro) for the very first time and we didn’t just press play.
Before the performance even starts, we break down the entire Reputation timeline:
The 2009 VMAs moment with Kanye West
The 2015 Vanguard Award presentation
The 2016 “Famous” phone call
The edited leak by Kim Kardashian
The #TaylorSwiftIsCancelled era
The snake emoji takeover
The media backlash and cultural reset
We walk through how the Reputation album wasn’t just a “revenge era,” but a strategic reclaiming of narrative (and yes, a love album for Joe Alwyn) all wrapped in one of the boldest pop reinventions of the decade.
Then we dive into:
🐍 The Reputation Tour intro (and the fan lore about journalists being invited to hear their own criticism blasted in a stadium)
🐍 Taylor and the Swifties reclaiming the snake symbolism
🐍 The production, co-producing, and sonic switch-ups inside Ready For It
🐍 Robert realizing this is all ONE song
🐍 Taylor’s rap flow and cadence
🐍 The Kobe Bryant comparison
🐍 "Swiftonomics" and legacy conversations
🐍 What separates the successful from the legendary
🐍 Why Swifties feel personally connected to her in more ways than one
After the live performance, we say, “F IT! Let’s watch the music video too.”
The cyberpunk Reputation visuals.
The dual Taylors.
The symbolism.
The vulnerability hidden inside power.
And by the end?
Robert says something we didn’t expect this early in the journey:
“I feel like I know her. I feel like I grew up with her.”
For a first-time viewer who just witnessed one live performance and one music video, that says everything about what Taylor builds with her audience.
This is our first Patreon exclusive, and it sets the tone:
Every week, Patreon gets a bonus reaction you won’t see anywhere else (at least for now). As we build toward tiered memberships, these exclusives are our way of giving early supporters something special.
If you’re here you’re part of the foundation and we can't tell you enough how much it means to us.
Next up: watch for a post here on Patreon (as well as in our community tab on YouTube) to vote for which of Robert's Reactions you'd like to see as the next Patreon Exclusive next Thursday!
Love you all and thank you for being here with us.
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CHAPTERS:
HEY SWIFTIES - 0:00
THE INFAMOUS CALL - 04:39
WHEN THE TRUTH COMES OUT - 10:35
REPUTATION TOUR INFO - 16:27
THE INTRO AND "RUMOR" - 18:30
TAYLOR SWIFT AND KOBE BRYANT - 24:31
SWIFTONOMICS - 26:54
WHAT SETS LEGENDS APART - 29:15
IS THIS REALLY THE SAME SONG?! - 37:13
TAYLOR IS HOT! - 40:20
RUN IT BACK TSWIZZLE - 45:37
F IT! LETS DO THE VIDEO TOO! - 47:20
YO SHE'S RAPPING! - 53:11
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME - 55:50
CLOSING THOUGHTS - 01:00:32
VOTE FOR THE NEXT EXCLUSIVE! - 01:02:52
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Comments (40)
The convo about Taylor being grounded and not out partying with friends or whatever made me laugh because it reminded me of a great TikTok video Taylor made with Travis at a club in Vegas with her parents. 😂
Love your reactions! I just discovered you and have devoured all the Taylor Swift content!! On a side note, I love your outlines on each episode. You put so much effort into this and it's appreciated.❤️
Aww thank you so much Crystal! That means a lot to us! Glad you found us and that you are enjoying the content 🫶🏼♥️
I think for Taylor with how her writing is such story telling is more country, but then she realized she was leaning more pop than country and country/pop
You should do Don't Blame Me from the Rep Tour with Robert!
Nikki Glasser talks about this in and interview. She was one of these voices and went to this concert and heard herself. She says she was so mortified, she reached out to Taylor's team to apologize, made a public apology as well. She is a HUGE swiftie and went to several Era's tour shows.
If I remember correctly, she also invited her entire high school class to her first awards show, to kind of stick it to people who’d be mean to her and everything. She is petty and we love it!!!
And if you listen to thank you Aimee it’s about Kim
Have you watched the making of a song series? That would give you a great picture of her writing and also watching the production of Reputation songs.
I went to Reputation tour...it was unreal live! She is just amazing live...every part of the show is immaculately planned.
I finally got to see this reaction!! My phone notified me when Patreon had it, but I was heading to my moms for the weekend with my girls, and so I couldn't see it til today lol! First of all, I am soo happy Rick can actually get into a little lore and can explain Taylor a bit <3 Corrina, you did awesome with covering the Kimye crap, I believe the only thing about the phone call, was that she never approved Kanye calling her a bitch. Also, when Kanye went on tour and he sang this song, the whole crowd chanted "Fuck Taylor", and his elevated stage was tilted. I believe that is the tilted stage she says she doesn't like in her Look What You Made Me Do lyrics. PLEASE show Robert that music video! That will show him the full extent of petty and snakes, and just easter eggs of her getting back at people! Especially the end with all of her versions talking back to each other. Again another amaizing reaction, love you guys, and I am now gonna head over and watch your newest video drop! <3
Humans are petty because we get feeling hurt. We don’t all have to go higher when people go low then it’s expecting others to hold bad behavior accountable. Not characteristic is good if it is your only one. She is petty but also generous, self aware, humble, powerful, smart, cut throat, soft hearted, sexy, quirky, nice, optimistic……. We are multifaceted it’s human it’s only an inauthentic critique when someone only considers a person to be one thing and if someone says someone ISNT something is inauthentic. She is petty and in this situation she absolutely. Deserved to be angry, manipulated, deflated, frustrated!!!
1st of all... I swear Rick has secretly listened to more of Taylors songs then he is telling us, for him to mention "rising like a Phoenix" at 22:29 out of the blue, and the look Carina (sp?) gives him! And Robert at 55:04 catches on and realizes that basically, don't get lost in the production, this is a love song, a love song that is very heavy in production, but the lyrics are sweet and sexy.
The main thing that Taylor didn't like about Kanye song which started the "she's lying" is he did not tell her he was calling her a bitch. If you notice at the end of her video for Look what you made me do, she references the word bitch.
#pettyqueen 100% believe it!!!
So glad so many people here get it! We took so much heat on tiktok and YouTube for that comment last time we said it 😅🫶🏼
Hi Robert!! 🫶🏻 BTW look at Rick speaking on Taylor!! I’m so happy you & Carina can share this!
Right?! I was so proud of him and all he’s learned 🥰❤️
We love petty Taylor!
Yessss!!!!
Another very interesting reaction and commentary. I love seeing Rick and Robert get TS . 65 yo man here and I have worshipped at the altar of The Beatles, Paul MacCartney, Stevie Wonder, Michel Jackson, Sting with and without The Police, Paul Simon, Carol King, Joni Mitchell etc you get where I am going. I hope. Great lyricist as well as musicians. I put Taylor in that category. My opinion but I really think I can argue that. Always a good time with yall!
Love watching him become a swiftie 🥰🥰 and he is!! Shh 😅
Agree! He actually got a friendship bracelet in the mail the other day and his reaction was priceless. Can’t wait until we record this weekend so yall can see how excited he was to get a bracelet haha ❤️
Great reaction. I can't wait for Thug Story. How about Both of us with B.O.B.?
Yess definitely want to do that one too!
I don't know who gave you a hard time because I love petty Taylor!
We got ripped up on tiktok and a little on YouTube too 😅 our Father Figure and Intro+Ready For It reactions over there are full of comments mad at Rick for saying she’s petty because “being petty is bad” 😂 I’m glad yall here get it!!!
Thanks for the fun! Robert was great again but still hard to understand once in a while with the echo.
Yea we recorded this a couple weeks ago while he was in the middle of relocating. He actually got his equipment in today and is gonna set everything up for our next recording. Any of our older stuff From The Vault might have a bit of that echo in it but we’ve only got a few more episodes left like that and then the quality should improve ❤️
That award she presented him at the VMAs - he begged her to present it to him, convinced her it would be funny, so she agreed - but when he went onstage, he went on a tirade against MTV, claiming they were just using him and that they forced him to let Taylor present him with the award. There's a set of pictures where you can see it happening in real time - Taylor is standing next to a very pregnant Kim and the way her face drops in a few short frames still breaks my heart a little.
It was reported that the truck drivers got 100,000 bonuses and it's unconfirmed but estimated her dancers and the Starlights got 750,000 each
And at the Christmas NFL game, she was giving out $100 bills as tips to stadium workers
Great reaction! Loved Robert's excitement 😄. Good explanation of the Kim Kanye lore. It will come in handy for TTPD as well.
Thank you! I was very nervous about the Kimye stuff so I’m glad I covered it well ❤️🫶🏼
We also call her T-Swizzle (8 foot fo blonde hair to the floor)
I can't believe people were giving you shit for calling Taylor petty 😯, she IS a petty queen and we love her for it
10:44 no one knows who actually leaked the full unedited phone call but there was rumor that it was someone that fell out with Kanye around the same time.
When it's "burn the bitch" they're screaming When the truth comes out it's quiet
Someone should count how many times Robert asks if this is really “the same song?!” 🤣🤣🫶🏼
Omg I laughed soooo hard every time he asked that very question!