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'...according to Digital Spy's Amy Davidson, "'love yourself' means 'go f**k yourself' in this context.'
I agree; everyone understands what 'love yourself' really means, but using this phrase makes it playable on the radio. So I think it was probably always written as 'love yourself'. It's clever lyric writing.