- A woman starts dating a man who betrays her. After that she turns his life into a living hell.
- Rich girl Taylor lives in a sprawling, stately mansion, rooms as big as halls. Just before her hot date, she wears a see-through gauzy gown, lazes on her canopy bed playing with a sleepy white cat, thinking about the new man in her life.. "I can show you incredible things, magic, madness, heaven, sin.... Oh my God, look at that face, you look like my next mistake..." She wears strings of outfits, among them an ornately-decorated evening dress, even a pair of hot pants, just the thing for zipping about on a bicycle inside the grand living room, doesn't everybody? Louboutins on her feet as she strides out with the Dobermanns. Taylor is brimming over with her usual self-confidence, "I can make the bad guys good for a weekend." New beau, who is a perfect match for her, settles in, at the stately dinner table, and outside, sunning by the pool. But there is big trouble brewing in paradise. Taylor seems to have decided that her new boyfriend will only invariably break her heart, and opts for a pre-emptive strike when he seems to be IMing another girl. "Oh my God, who is she? I get drunk on jealousy!" She sings about being a rose garden filed with thorns, "cause darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream." Verily, as she sets about proving just exactly that. Poor guy, my heart bleeds for him as she-devil Taylor heaps misery upon him by the bucketload., cutting up his clothes, tossing a dressy shirt out the window a la the average early Kelly Clarkson music video. No, outdoing her, she had set it alight! "Got a long line of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane." Indeed, she portrays a very sick kitty, she is quite deranged, demented, willfully vandalizing the two-timing guy's classic vintage sports car, a Shelbey Cobra roadster, with a golf club. Very notable here is her notion that guys want love to be torture, so she would give them just exactly that, demonstrating it by crushing the very symbol of succumbing to temptation, a blood-red Garden of Eden apple with her long red nails.. (Indeed guys might seem to want pain, pursuing the likes of unattainable princesses like the singer...) Boyfriend Alan chokes on a poisoned apple...
"I have a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name..."
The video is filled with strong imagery, most notably the omni-present white horse, which might be construed to represent grace and purity, the challenge to ride the unridable horse... The tree trunk with their names cut into it. Also the bloodied cake as she sinks the knife into it, a very disturbing sexual image. The song features strong, dramatic lyrics, and the singer is in her zone, giving a top-notch performance.
{posted by a Swiftie}
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