Most people know who Taylor Swift is. She is one of the most popular pop singers. Pretty much everyone who has heard of her, knows that she has a reputation for writing "break up" songs. You are able to hear that general theme in most of her music.
In November, Taylor's new songs "Blank Space" came out. When it first hit the radio, I immediately liked it, it was catchy as hell. But several weeks after, I remember seeing some discussion over her music video for the songs that had also just came out.
The beginning of the video starts out very sweet and love-filled. They're staring into each others eyes and riding bikes in her study, how lovely right? Next, Tay takes a nasty turn when bae is on his phone instead of enjoying their picnic. Now Tay has reached her limits, she's throwing iPhones into water fountains, stabbing oil paintings of bae (I think his name is actually Sean), cutting holes into all of his clothing, and now she's smashing bae's car with a golf club.
So overall in this video, I think that Taylor Swift is totally playing into the stereotype of a physic-crazy girlfriend. She is showing her viewers that instead of talking through your problems and maturely working it out, you can just ruin a lot of nice things. Taylor is also delivering this to a large group of younger girls who at their age are extremely susceptible to anything and everything.
Examples like this from the media, are a reason why society is beginning to make a turn for the worse.
First of all, don't show this blog post to Derek. Second of all, I need to disagree with you. I don't think this video is just showing fans that you can do whatever you want and be reckless, I really think that she is trying to poke fun at her haters. I also think this video is empowering to women because it shows them that men do not need to dominate and control the relationship, they can have a say in it too. This ad shows girls that standing up to their boyfriends is ok because they do not control them.
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