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Look what Katy and Kayne made Taylor Swift do
In case you didn’t hear, Taylor Swift is fed up. “Look What You Made Me Do,” her new single, and first song from her upcoming CD, Reputation, makes it clear that she’s done with her haters, the betrayers, and their collaborators. And like our favorite little Game of Thrones assassin, Arya Stark, the singer has a kill list of names, written in blood red, and underlined. If your name begins with a K (cough, Kim, Kanye, Katy, cough), we advice you to keep looking over your shoulder, just in case a knife makes its way to your back.
What’s intriguing about Taylor’s first video (lyrics only) for this revenge song, which came out Thursday night, is that it looks a lot like the opening title sequence of the Hitchcock films, Psycho, Vertigo and North By Northwest, and Preminger’s The Man With the Golden Arm. Those highly stylized graphics were clearly inspired by the work of creative genius and Hollywood designer Saul Bass. It’s said that when you see a Saul Bass opening sequence, you know exactly what kind of film you’re about to see.
Is Taylor Swift sending a warning to her enemies, to whom she sings, “I don’t like you” and “I trust nobody and nobody trusts me, I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams?” Of course she is! Strangely, that threatening message ends up being much more effective via the Bass-like lettering of her lyrics than her followup live-action video for the song, which she debuted at the VMAs on Sunday night.
Since both videos hit the airwaves, the lyrics video has gotten 44 million views, while the other got a still impressive but lesser number of 34 million. Can her numerous fans be wrong?
