Todrick Hall Reveals What Exactly We Made Taylor Swift Do

Taylor Swift smashed back onto the pop music scene with her controversial new track "Look What You Made Me Do" earlier this week, and fans were quick to notice choreographer to the stars and RuPaul's Drag Race judge Todrick Hall in the forefront of the video.

Donned in an "I <3 TS" t-shirt, Hall's presence is a reference to Swift and Tom Hiddleston's brief romance last summer (plus her seven other high-profile boyfriends). The backup dancers serve up some fierce choreography with the 1989 diva, but Hall doesn't exactly see himself that way. "I would like to refer to myself as a front-up dancer. I was in the front of the back-ups, you know what I mean?"

In an interview with INSTANT, Hall opened up about filming the video, which was shot in May of this year.

"It was the hardest secret ever to keep, but I know how I am as an artist and when I’m creating stuff, even if it’s just on my YouTube channel, I don’t want anyone to tell anything, I don’t want anybody to post a Snapchat or a picture. I think it speaks volumes of what type of a person Taylor is as a human being, as an artist, that she was able to get all of these people on a set, shoot an epic — what I don’t even want to call a music video because it’s more of a movie at this point — and get them to not say anything. People just really were excited and I was more excited to see the reaction of people online than to tell people. So I didn’t even tell people that were very, very close to me; my own family didn’t know."

So what exactly did we make Taylor Swift do? "She didn't tell me what they made her do," Hall chuckles. "I’m assuming what she means by that is, You made me break every record, you made me out-sell everyone. You made me have the most beat video ever created. You made me hire the best backup dancers in the world, you made me come out of a grave, you made me tilt a bunch of tombstones at one time — that choreography was like a flashmob of tombstones; it was really, really cool. That’s what they made her do."

Watch the full interview below.