Taylor Swift takes it out on another ex-boyfriend in her latest music video for “Blank Space.”
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Taylor Swift has a new album titled 1989 out in stores now. The lead single was a fun track titled “Shake It Off,” the second is titled “Blank Space.” It is equally pretty catchy and destined to be a hit, and she dropped the music video for the song on Monday.
It is an interesting song and video, that you can probably guess the theme of. Swift meets boy and falls in love, she gets burned and they break up.
That’s where the video takes an interesting turn. The problems start for this fictional couple when Swift sees him neglecting her for text messaging.
Then she loses it, and goes on a rampage filled with some rather violent images, like throwing a vase at her boy friend, dropping his phone in a fountain, stabbing a painting of him with a chef’s knife, cutting up his clothes, setting them on fire and throwing them out the window.
It also includes her beating a beautiful Shelby Cobra with a golf club like Tiger Woods’ ex-wife, sitting in bed with a knife and stabbing a cake. Now if this were a hip hop video about every day violence some artists dealt with before becoming successful, they’d be ridiculed to no end for perpetuating a violent stereotype, for glamorizing violence and influencing the youth negatively.
So why does Swift get away with it? Has she no undoubtedly influenced young females to act out violently when a boyfriend text messages some one or talks to another girl? The song never indicates that he actually cheated, though you could say it was implied, and even if he did, is this how you want to tell young women to handle it.
You could use the “it is just entertainment” excuse, and “it isn’t real,” but remember that is the same reasoning people use to defend rap videos, lyrics and violent video games.
She also says in the song that her ex-boyfriends will “tell you I’m insane.”
They also throw this in the description if you were worried about the car: “No animals, trees, automobiles or actors were harmed in the making of this video.”
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