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Post by Avengium on Oct 25, 2017 17:09:24 GMT
The artist Dua Lipa has Taylor Swift merch. Dua Lipa wearing Speak Now merchandise backstage at her show in Cologne, Germany. For the pictures is the t shirt i always associated with the song Haunted.
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Post by BlackAndWhite on Oct 27, 2017 4:25:46 GMT
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 8:33:22 GMT
What do you think of the video? BlackAndWhite . In my opinion is awesome! And amazing video! And i think it has more than the evident.
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 11:07:12 GMT
Gif from the RFI music video. Do you like it?
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Post by BlackAndWhite on Oct 27, 2017 11:48:14 GMT
What do you think of the video? BlackAndWhite . In my opinion is awesome! And amazing video! And i think it has more than the evident. I absolutely agree with you! This video is brilliant, pure perfection. The old Taylor isn't dead, she is alive and stronger than ever!
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Post by BogoGog24 on Oct 27, 2017 11:52:58 GMT
I thought it was underwhelming in comparison to LWYMMD. Visually impressive and kind of like a mini movie, but I donāt really get the storyline or how it relates to the song at all. I thought LWYMMD was a lot better and more entertaining.
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 12:02:06 GMT
Joseph Kahn tweeted this:
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 12:07:08 GMT
This Swift fan lives in iceland. Has also Reddit account, and discord app account: techswiftie.tumblr.com/post/166844140561/ready-for-it-a-theory-ok-there-isnt-anySaid this: " Ok there isnāt any ārealā and āfakeā Taylor here. Well, there is but the way people are describing it is insufficient. And thereās no āthe mediaā bogeyman, Iām tired of that being shoehorned into every analysis this era. The point of this video isnāt that Taylor is a victim or that sheās fake or is being controlled or misrepresented by some bad guys.
The video very much says that sheās in control and she created herself and her image. But there is an important development of that dynamic that happens towards the end of this video.
OK, this is whatās going on: There are two different aspects of Taylor here:
* Hooded Taylor is Taylor the artist, Taylor the creator, the experimenter. This room with the glass cage is her laboratory, the glass cage a test tube.
* Naked Taylor is a template, a canvas on which she paints and experiments with.
These are of course the same Taylor, this dichotomy is just a metaphor for how a showman and artist like Taylor plays different parts, creates different personas for us to be entertained by.
In her lab, the experimental artist has created many different characters for us, as shown by the different forms the naked Taylor takes, but all painted on the same canvas, her ārealā self.
Now for the main event of the video:
The artist and her canvas (aka the unaltered, ārealā Taylor if you want to frame it like that) walk up to each other and come face to face. What happens next is up for interpretation but I read it like this: Taylor the artist, that mad scientist who has experimented on ārealā Taylor for all these years, decides to set her free (āare you ready for it?ā she asks her). As she breaks free from her test tube, she wounds the artist and exposes a robot skeleton. After all, artist and canvas are different aspects of the same thing: Taylor Swift. Both characters exit the laboratory at this point.
āRealā Taylor escapes into the world and you can see the feeling of exhilaration in her face, sheās finally free and it makes her cry from happiness.
Taylor the artist is wounded but still standing. āBurn all the witchesā, the graffiti says as her intellect and creativity continues to be seen as sinister, lightning strikes her and monsters chase her but she still stands, for now. " What do you think?
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 12:10:38 GMT
Other people said other things: 0:13 - "13", "89", and "91" appear in graffiti. 0:20 - "13" 0:22 - "All Eyes On Us" 0:24 - "This Is Enough" 0:25 - "I Love You In Secret" (Looks more like "Loves" though) 0:26 - ē“ē夫, Translates to "Joseph" 0:28 - "UR Gorgeous" 0:28 - č¾čæŖ, Translates to "Eddie" 0:35 - "This Is Enough" (blurry, though) 3:05 - "All Eyes On Us" appears again. 3:09 - Chinese writing on the Robot's face (possibly "anti-theft") 3:13 - "They're Burning All The Witches" 3:20 - "89" and "91" are written on the stairs. " There's probably some Chinese that I missed, like the one that apparently says "Swift". " Joseph Kahn is Korean, Ghost in the Shell is Japanese, why did they pick Chinese for the hidden messages? Someone said 1989 was the Chinese year of the snake and that seems to be the leading reason rn.
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Post by Avengium on Oct 27, 2017 12:18:21 GMT
A screenshot of the banner in chinese saying Year of the snake. Glad that we have people that know chinese.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2017 15:51:39 GMT
I love it and think itās brilliant. Liked it much better than LWYMMD, mainly because she looked better/sexier. I like girly Taylor. I do agree with BG that the lyrics donāt seem to āfitā but with all the eye candy I didnāt care. šš¼šš¼
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2017 17:51:47 GMT
I think it has a similar plot to LWYMMD. Sort of like her real self against her āreputationā. Her real self eventually breaking free.
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Post by Avengium on Oct 28, 2017 12:50:48 GMT
Another theory that relates the lyrics to the music video and says that the lyrics are not about a boy but the relation between the two Taylors. A fresh theory for your eyes: "my best guess would be to say that the guys in the black suits were all of the guys she's dated. then, after going through all of those, she gets to herself, which no one can see; thats why there is a passcode, and even the viewers only see the first few digits, showing how no one really knows how she is. the inside with the bodysuit taylor, i think, refers to all of her old songs, and how they were more pure: white horse was specifically referenced in the vid and there were a couple more things that i'm not quite remembering, but the new taylor calmly watched because she couldnt change what she already was. the problem is that her past can hurt her. in regards to the lyrics, the first verse talks all about the guy at first, when she is in the hallway w/ the suits, so it refers to ANY of the guys, and how she was attracted to the boys because of how they were. then, once she is facing herself, she refers to herself and how everyone else sees her. which means the bridge, let the games begin, menas that she is finally willing to accept her old self as a part of her new self, and highlights that with the breaking of the glass. and as such the rest is the triumph of the old self, which means that her old self will still be dominant, even with her new style and, tying in the full album, reputation" What do you think of this theory? I also saw other theories. Do you want me to post more theories?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 20:37:48 GMT
Interesting.
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Post by Avengium on Oct 28, 2017 23:38:48 GMT
Another theory about the relation of the two Taylors and not about love. Maybe this one is a weird theory. And also looks like the writer is amazed and suddenly start to write on ALL CAPS due to the emotion of the moment: I also found a messianic theory. And other theories. Interesting. What do you think?
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