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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2017 18:30:18 GMT
Taylor Swift is going to a dark place with the music video for her new single “Look What You Made Me Do.” The Grammy winner, 27, unveiled the video — which turns the tables on the criticism thrown her way throughout her career — at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. The video kicks off with a “dead” Swift crawling out of a “Taylor Swift’s Reputation” grave juxtaposed with a shot of the star lying in a diamond-filled bathtub. The “dead Taylor” also shovels dirt onto a 2014 Met Ball-version of Swift. Other clips include Swift sitting on a throne commanding her legion of snakes, swinging in a golden cage and posing with a Grammy award after crashing her car into a pole as the paparazzi snap photos.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2017 18:41:45 GMT
The viewers don't get a cause of death, so one is left to assume Swift is making a statement about all the bad press she's gotten in the last year or so with everything from her break up and spat with producer and DJ Calvin Harris, to her highly-publicized falling out with rapper Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian. Swift and the couple have had competing narratives as to whether Swift signed off on West in a song lyric. Some fans think Swift took a shot at West with the lyrics "I don't like your little games, don't like your tilted stage/The role you made me play of the fool, no, I don't like you." The rapper's last concert tour featured a floating and tilted stage. The moment at the end of the video when Swift said "Getting receipts, gonna edit this later" as she pointed her camera phone and mimicked the act of recording a video was interpreted by some fans as a swipe at Kim Kardashian, who was said to have "brought receipts" to her husband's spat with the pop star. Said "receipts"-- an internet catchphrase used to call for proof or evidence -- was a video of a phone conversation between the rapper and Swift, which Kardashian said proved the singer knew about the song lyric she later complained about.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2017 18:37:23 GMT
The 32-year-old YouTube star/dancer, who was previously in Beyonce's Lemonade, was one of Swift's backup dancers in the video. In an interview via People and Entertainment Weekly's video platform INSTANT, Hall said he was sworn to secrecy by Swift's camp since the video taped in May. "It was the hardest secret ever to keep," said Hall. "I think it speaks volumes of what type of a person Taylor is as a human being, as an artist. That she was able to get all of these people on a set, shoot an epic – what I don't even want to call a music video because it's more of a movie at this point – and get them to not say anything." Hall reflected on his take on the meaning of the video: "I'm assuming what she means by that is, 'You made me break every record, you made me out-sell everyone,'" he said. "'You made me hire the best backup dancers in the world, you made me come out of a grave, you made me tilt a bunch of tombstones at one time." He added that the choreography "was like a flashmob of tombstones. It was really, really cool."
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Post by Admin on Aug 31, 2017 19:45:09 GMT
The track's music video, unveiled at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, now holds the title of most YouTube global streams in a 24-hour period. That's 43.2 million views, knocking out previous record-holder Psy’s “Gentleman,” which had 36 million views in its first 24 hours when it dropped back in 2013.
The "Look What You Made Me Do" video averaged over 30,000 views per min in its first 24 hours, with hourly views reaching over 3 million views.
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Post by Admin on Sept 1, 2017 18:47:19 GMT
The record-breaking songstress made sure to give a big thanks to the "Look What You Made Me Do" dancers, who managed to keep their mouths shut despite some possible temptation to spill secrets from the highly anticipated music video before its big debut at the VMAs on Sunday night. Taylor's gratitude to the dancers came in the form of a heartfelt card and flowers. Along with the floral arrangement, Taylor's card said, "Thanks for keeping our secret. I'm so proud of it and I hope you will be too." The gift was signed, "Sending my love and gratitude, Taylor." This isn't the first time that the 27-year-old's gifted flowers of gratitude. The "Out of the Woods" singer resurfaced in May to send a fan a handwritten graduation card and flowers. Earlier this month, the hit-maker also sent flowers to Craftsy, the company that posted Taylor-inspired messages in Post-It Notes across from the courthouse where her groping trial was taking place in Denver.
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