Passing off a Lara Trump song as new Taylor Swift was just too cruel.

Source: Daily Beast

Taylor Swift fans have been counting down the seconds until the release of her much-anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department, which arrives today. But it was the Swifties who ended up being tortured when Jimmy Kimmel decided to prank a few of them by attempting to pass “Anything Is Possible,” Lara Trump’s painful-to-hear new single, off as a track from Swift.

Spoiler alert: No one was impressed.

And some of the shocked reactions.

“Honestly, it’s not very good” was about the nicest thing anyone said about the tune. “It’s terrible,” was a less nice review. One woman claimed that it sounds “really, really robotic—more like AI,” which seems to be a fair assessment.

When these same listeners were then told it was Swift, one wondered “did she hurt her voice?”

“I don’t want to offend the Swifties,” offered one man, “but that was the single worst thing that she has ever released that I have personally listened to in my ears.”

After declaring that “she sounds sick,” another young man had some theories as to why that might be, including: an excess of phlegm in her throat, drinking too much, or that she’s been “smoking a little weed.”