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'Goat edition': Bizarre new meme skewers pop favorites

By Alex Smith, TODAYThe Internet is a weird and wild space where brilliance sometimes blossoms like ivy. Often, a passingly amusing idea will take hold, flourish, mutate and take on a new life of its own as a zeitgeist-infiltrating meme that reflects some core truths about our culture.Other times, not so much. This is one of those latter times.Take a beloved , instantly recognizable pop song, add
Get your goat: Taylor Swift's \"I Knew You Were Trouble\" gets a barnyard augmentation
Get your goat: Taylor Swift's \"I Knew You Were Trouble\" gets a barnyard augmentationYouTube / Today

By Alex Smith, TODAY

The Internet is a weird and wild space where brilliance sometimes blossoms like ivy. Often, a passingly amusing idea will take hold, flourish, mutate and take on a new life of its own as a zeitgeist-infiltrating meme that reflects some core truths about our culture.

Other times, not so much. This is one of those latter times.

Take a beloved , instantly recognizable pop song, add a screaming goat and voila: the "Goat Edition" meme is born.  Enjoy!

Alex Smith is an editor/producer who assures readers that no livestock was harmed in the production of this post.

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