Look What You Made Me Do | Taylor Swift | Official Music Video

i don't care what anyone says, this music video was definitely something else

let's talk about the song first. i'll admit, i'm always the first to complain about how i miss the old taylor swift w her curly hair & her cowboy boots* & how i loved her old songs so much. however, i don't see anything wrong w her moving from country pop to pop to whatever else she wants to pursue, as long as she does it well (which i think she does). i loved every album up til 1989 (i actually never got to hear all of the songs bc none of them were available on youtube or spotify for a while) but i actually kind of like this new song. it's very different, w a little bit of a creepier vibe & i'll admit it's a tiny bit silly, with taylor saying "i'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. why? Oh! 'cause she's dead!" but i really liked it

she disappeared off of social media (possibly bc she was working on her music) & deleted everything & came back one day w a new coming-soon album titled "reputation" & a single called "look what you made me do" which possibly is just her trying to push all of her old reputation- all of the stuff that people said about her- & start over, show that she's not that taylor anymore- that taylor is "dead"

now on to the music video. i definitely had my doubts about whether or not i would like the music video after seeing the teaser & the snake videos. this video is definitely interesting, to say the least. we come in w an aerial view & see lights that spell out "TS" then a headstone that says "here lies taylor swift's reputation" which i thought was funny. then zombie taylor comes out of the ground in the cemetery, throwing dirt into a grave w taylor in it. then next "scene," glamorous taylor is in a tub of diamonds. the scene splits into taylor sitting at a throne w snakes crawling up the stairs & all around her (i don't know why but it kind of give me a tess-from-camp-rock feel). i didn't love this part bc her face while she sang didn't really match the vibe that it was supposed to give off. BUT i do love how when taylor says "Oh!" the snakes kind of do too. then bam, car accident, w taylor holding an award & paparazzi taking pictures of her

my favorite part was when taylor was in this orange outfit on a swing in a cage. it kind of gave me a harley quinn (from suicide squad) vibe. & the vibe continues w taylor robbing a bank in thigh high boots & a baseball bat w her blond hair all messy & a crazy look in her eye. after that, it's like a dictator taylor ruling over robotic/barbie people (???) & then the oh so famous taylor in all black, w curly hair & back up dancers, which has been compared to beyonce's formation & jenny humphrey (taylor momsen) from gossip girl. she wears black once again w the word "rep" on her chest in front of a huge lit-up "T" on top of a hill of taylors, trying to climb up. they are past taylors, like the "you belong w me" taylor. & back to the taylor w back-up dancers, which i also didn't love bc the dancing probably should have been sexy but i don't see taylor that way

at the end of the video, there is a line of taylors talking to each other. taylor swift kind of addresses her 'reputation' by having the taylors say things like "stop acting like you're so nice," "you're so fake," "there she goes, playing the victim again," undoubtedly things that people have said to taylor herself. i watched this & i thought "wow she did that." she took the things that people have said about her & put it into this video like hey look what you made me do now i'm gonna be this whole new taylor that you never would have seen coming

i think that whether or not people like taylor swift or this new song or video, they all wanted to see what taylor was up to (since she had like 400,000 views in 16 minutes). you can say a lot of things about taylor but you can't say that she didn't get people talking





*taylor swift wrote the song hey stephen about stephen liles who also wrote a song about her- "try to make it anyway"- in which he sings about her "curly hair & [her] cowboy boots"