Taylor Swift was a little upset with the Princeton Review and its SAT practice test, which got the quote from one of her songs incorrect.
Swift re-blogged a fan’s Tumblr post, which included a picture of an SAT practice test that asked students to find the incorrect use of pronouns in pop lyrics. The Swift lyric read, “Somebody tells you they love you, you got to believe ‘em.”
As Time notes, the Princeton Review was probably trying to highlight the fact that Swift incorrectly used “they” and “them” in the 2009 song “Fifteen” since she started the line with the singular pronoun “somebody.” So, she should have used “him” or “her” and “she” or “him.”
But, as Swift’s fans noticed, the lyric in the SAT book was wrong. “Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh,” Swift wrote on Tumblr. “You had one job, test people. One job.”
The real line in the song is “Somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them.”
Looks like someone at the Princeton Review needs to retake Pop Songs 101.
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