As far as thematic content goes, Taylor Swift seems to have abandoned any sense of subtlety in favour of writing down exactly what she means, taping it to the side of a very large fish, and slapping everyone upside the head with it.
The drop of her new single ‘Look What You Made Me Do‘ this past Friday revealed her intention to directly address the long-simmering bitterness between herself and the Kanye West-associated clan head-on, and the title of her album ‘Reputation,’ along with the reclamation of snake imagery, indicates that the upcoming album is pretty much gonna hang all the dirty laundry on the line outside, for all to see. ‘Course she did always say that there was “nothing I do better than revenge,” but that’s neither here nor there.
Swift’s ditching of the old self is layered on thick in the video for ‘Look What You Made Me Do‘ which dropped during today’s on-going MTV Video Music Awards.
In case the imagery and symbolism wasn’t already blatantly obvious, the film clip starts with a corpse-Swift literally dragging herself out of the grave of “Taylor Swift’s Reputation,” before she goes on to trash and bury every persona she’s played in prior film clips, standing atop them and chastising the younger versions of herself in the clip’s conclusion.
And just in case any of you were confused as to exactly how petty Ms Swift can be, cop an absolute eye-load of this.
https://twitter.com/mdixonsmith/status/901969374092787713
Folks, it’s not often we can say this with any semblance of certainty, but: It’s on.
It is on.
