A bloodied Joe Goldberg singing Taylor Swift? Heck, why not? On Wednesday, Penn Badgley shared a video of himself (with his chin covered in fake blood) singing to Swift’s song with Bon Iver, “Exile,” alongside his You castmates, Anna Camp and Charlotte Ritchie, and his podcast partners.
Badgley and the crew tried their best to emulate the harmonies of Swift and Justin Vernon, as they sang the back-and-forth bridge, “All this time/I never learned to read your mind (never learned to read my mind)/I couldn’t turn things around (you never turned things around)/’Cause you never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs).”
The actor shared the clip on TikTok for PodCrushed, the actor’s podcast with Sophie Ansari and Nava Kavelin. The page captioned the post, “Fans ready to exile us when they find out Victoria isn’t at the roundtable,” in reference to You‘s Victoria Pedretti, who wasn’t featured on the You podcast episode.
In the comments, fans joked about Camp’s role in Pitch Perfect, writing, “The world is healing Anna Camp is back doing acapella.” To one comment, the podcast responded, “The Barden Bellas gradYOUated.”
PodCrushed host Kavelin shared an outtake of the crew starting to harmonize before letting out a laugh.
“Lol I have SO many takes. We couldn’t get it until we got it,” Kavelin wrote. “There’s a version I’m so tempted to release where Anna and I mess up SO badly but my voice is so awful in it I can’t stomach that being the one Taylor somehow sees in a freak accident.”
Badgley has shared his affinity for Swift in the past. When he launched his TikTok, he shared a video dressed as Joe, lip-syncing Taylor Swift lyrics from her Midnights single “Anti-Hero.”
“I thought for years, ‘I’ll get a TikTok when the time is right,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2023. “And then when Taylor’s record came out, it just seemed the song wouldn’t have worked with anybody else. Me. Joe. Anti-Hero. Taylor Swift? It just was the perfect moment.”
The little “Exile” video comes about a week after Netflix launched the fifth and final season of You. The finale picks up three years after Season Four and finds Joe returning to where it all began, New York City. This time, though, he’s with his new partner Kate (Ritchie), helping her run the company she inherited from her father (one of Joe’s Season Four victims).
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