Happy Independence Day: Here's a New Taylor Swift Music Video
LatestI had high expectations for the “Red” music video. I thought to myself, “There’s probably going to be a horse, the anguished murmurings of a young woman’s heart maybe, fireworks?, a wig if I’m really lucky…” But no. There was just Taylor in concert and the greedy, reaching hands of Taylor’s eager fans. At first I wondered, “Where is the bucolic setting? Where is the tender romance between children? Where is Vanessa from Gossip Girl?” By the end, though — I will confess to it — I was moved. But I also cry every time I think about the Budweiser Clysedale commercial, so I’m probably not the best judge.
Seriously, though: if you have millions of adoring devotees, why not commemorate their screams of glee? If I were to put all my fans in a room and videotape them, the footage would be of my mom checking her Instagram and a confused pedestrian who mistook me for the girl from Paramore. So good for you, Taylor. Keep doing what you’re doing. Keep wearing that circus blazer.