Sorry, Katy — Tay got you again.

Taylor Swift didn’t even have to show up to the MTV Video Music Awards to stick it to the show’s host — and Swift’s longtime nemesis — Katy Perry.

While the “California Girl” spent the night flailing through her hosting duties, Swift literally rose from the dead in her music video for “Look What You Made Me Do,” which premiered at the awards show.

There’s a lot going on in the video, which opens with a terrifying zombie Swift crawling from the grave. From there, the 27-year-old songstress proceeds to channel a series of divas: Liz Taylor soaking in a bathtub of diamonds, J.Lo atop a golden jet, and Britney Spears in her iconic biker outfit at, fittingly, the VMAs.

But though she’s moving through different personas the whole time, Swift’s self-awareness — and deftness for self-deprecation — never waver.

Consider the scene where she dons an S&M outfit straight out of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” commands a legion of “Valkyrie”-esque leather-clad women and dubs them “squad”: a jab at the media’s obsession with her girl gangs.

And, of course, there’s the video’s much-discussed ending, where we see multiple versions of Swift dissing each other.

“Oh, stop acting so nice, you’re so fake,” says one Swift.

“There she goes, playing the victim again,” says another.

It’s like “Blank Space” on steroids: Swift knows that whatever persona she tries on, she’ll always be criticized. So she pokes fun at herself, and she does it well.

Her self-awareness has always helped her connect with her audience — and her gift for connection is especially sharp when you compare her to Perry, who spent three hours struggling to elicit a chuckle from the crowd. When she paused after her cringe-worthy jokes? Crickets.

Whether you love or hate Swift’s merciless self-mocking, it’s landed her at the top of the music charts, time after time. On Sunday night, she was in fine form — and all while the world was laughing at, not with, Perry.