Unless you’ve been living under an anti-Swift shield (and if you have, pls let us know where to cop), you will have seen the vid for Taylor Swift‘s second single from her upcoming record Reputation.
It’s this one:
Like everything produced by the Tay-Tay juggernaut, this vid has been dissected down to the pixel. The main things fans reckon they’ve spotted: song lyrics in the graffiti, yet more references to Taylor’s eight (evil?) exes, possible collaboration Easter eggs, birthdates referencing herself and her current boo Joe Aldwyn, and a total refusal to let the Kimye feud die.
Observe:
As she destroys the fake media reputation Taylor… “they’re burning all the witches.” #ReadyForItMusicVideo pic.twitter.com/bkbpAZ77aH
— Anne (@anne_esq) October 27, 2017
(that’s supposed to be a reference to the “witch hunt”/Swift vs. Kanye beef)
I knew it. She’s using reference to Bad Blood, Blank Space, and Out of the Woods MV. shet iconic 😭 #ReadyForItMusicVideo pic.twitter.com/eKjlzdnWGr
— Juan 🔥🕛 (@cpaswiftie) October 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/itsmehope13/status/923767979296169986
Taylor liked a post on Tumblr about secret messages on the walls
▪️All Eyes On Us
▪️UR Gorgeous
▪️This Is Enough
▪️I Love You In Secret pic.twitter.com/a5vAA3EnLy— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) October 27, 2017
But in our opinion, the wildest thing to come out of this clip’s release is that some people actually appear to have thought Taylor Swift was entirely starkers in it.
We’re talking about one particular scene where hood-wearing sass-walking Taylor fights creepy cyborg Taylor and there are just… altogether too many special effects tbqh. Cyborg Taylor first appears looking like this:
And sure, cyborg Taylor might seem, on first glance, to be nüde – but anyone can see, on closer inspection, that she is in fact wearing some kind of bodysuit to create a Ghost in the Shell-style robo-bod effect. It’s pretty obvious, right?
Wrong.
https://twitter.com/kenDavid19/status/922535763945848834
Taylor Swift, why did I just see your naked body in your new music video preview?? This is NOT okay.
— Hayden Brooke Williams (@HaydenKirchhoff) October 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/AnatomyMer93/status/922522358291861510
OUT OF ALL THE THINGS I EXPECTED FROM THIS ERA….. TAYLOR SWIFT NAKED IN A MUSIC VIDEO IS NOT ONE OF THEM
— caitlin 🫶 1 (@swiftantonoffs) October 23, 2017
Taylor swift naked in her video shes not a good role model my daughter jennifer came home crying, we are burning our reputation tour tickets
— she is california dreaming (@slaymehoe) October 23, 2017
For the record, Swift herself has responded to the pearl-clutching with some A-grade sass via Instagram story.
This version of Taylor Swift who doesn’t give a fuck anymore is my favorite. pic.twitter.com/yrpOdTLyyi
— Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) October 27, 2017
“It truly warms my heart that people had so much to say about this bodysuit,” she wrote, and honestly, Taylor: we believe you.
