Now, she's ready to stick up for herself. And, as we saw with "Look What You Made Me Do," she's throwing snake emojis back in the face of all the haters. When

Now, she's ready to stick up for herself. And, as we saw with "Look What You Made Me Do," she's throwing snake emojis back in the face of all the haters. When her new album finally drops on Thursday night/Friday morning, we'll see how far she's willing to go.

As she told us in "LWYMMD": "I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time." And this time, "All my flowers grew back as thorns."

So, yes, she's everything we've always said she is, starting with strategic: "I've got a list of names and yours is in red underlined."

And she's vengeful: "The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama, but not for me, not for me—all I think about is karma."

So are we finally ready to forgive her? Was her year-long retreat a long enough time away from the spotlight?