There have been many responses to the eight-second accidental hit of white noise attributed to pop star Taylor Swift. At [theatlantic.com](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/the-author-of-white-noise-reviews-taylor-swifts-white-noise/381771/), Megan Garber stitched together quotes from Don DeLillo’s novel *White Noise* to form a review (“It is the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”). At [vulture.com](http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/taylor-swift-track-3-8-seconds-of-white-noise.html), Nate Jones drew a comparison to the late Lou Reed’s *Metal Machine Music*. The white noise snippet was erroneously titled “Track 3,” so at [theverge.com](http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/10/22/7038371/taylor-swift-1989-track-3-is-the-most-successful-eight-seconds-of-nothing), Ross Miller compared it to a silence inherent in the real third track on the record:
>Swift’s actual track 3 (actual name TBD) does have actual lyrics, as teased on her Instagram account: I say “I heard that you’ve been out and about with some other girl” — all followed by an extended, anxiety-inducing, 29-dot ellipses.
And over at his [soundcloud.com/junkrhythm](https://soundcloud.com/junkrhythm/taylor-swift-remix) account the Los Angeles”“based Junk Rhythm went so far as to create white noise from scratch and post a how-to on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wMta3RptYY&feature=youtu.be):