#delicate mv

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FOOLISH ONE - (taylor's version) (from the vault)

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this community note is killing me😆😆

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[daisyswift3]

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high infidelity (midnights, 2022) / delicate mv still / so long london (the tortured poets department, 2024) / the black dog (ttpd: the anthology)

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Taylor Swift Icons : Delicate MV

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in case no one read the thing above, I MEAN MUSIC VIDEOS NOT THE SONGS

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You can mark my words, I said it first, in a mourning warning no one h e a r d . . . 🏰🦇🕸 my edit: @chloe-or-sam-or-sophia-or-marcus

[daisyswift3]

This is a fantastic analysis! She’s been telling this story since the beginning—the tale of 2 Taylors. The midnights prologue indicates that “midnight” is when these 2 version of herself will finally unite. She and “the man” become one and step into the daylight together. It’s the grand finale

Submission: I wanna talk a bit about Taylor representing herself as two girls over the years. How she represented her ‘duality’.

One to entertain the crowd while the other hides away. One is also shiny and bold while the other is shy and shaken.

The first time was in the You Belong With Me music video. The popular, bold girl that is chasing the boy, while the other shy, shaken girl is hovering behind. Not fully hidden and not fully seen.

In the YBWM MV the two girls were against each other, but after more time, they became a team. The shiny version is protecting the fragile one.

In 1989, we see it again in the OOTW MV. Taylor meets another version of herself after facing, storms, wolves, forests, snow and falling off a cliff and almost drowning. The beauty of the representation is that it collides with the pain of being in a bad relationship. It’s like she blends the pain of having to be two people in front of the public while almost losing your authentic hidden self in the process, with the feeling of losing yourself in a bad relationship, not knowing who you are anymore.

She faces the impossible to hang on to her true self, to not lose the girl she hides from everyone. The girl whom she can’t be. Playing a role could overcome your life to the point of being that fake version of yourself even when you’re alone, almost believing you could be this girl when doors are closed. But she doesn’t want to.

Then in Ready For It, we meet her again. The glass-box girl. The naked girl. The fragile yet authentic one.

The Taylor in the cloak is vicious and bold. She is brave and dark. She is what people see Taylor after 2016. Even Taylor’s “other shiny version” before Reputation kept her softness to a degree, but after 2016 she became a bit more tough. But also this is how Taylor thought she should be in her darkest moments. She should stop being soft.

The one in the glass-box is naked. She is exposed even though she is in the box, the box is transparent. She is visible, yet she isn’t. Being naked equals being vulnerable and this is how she sees herself, her true self. At the end she chooses to beat her “public” self. Which gives me hope that her plan isn’t to hide forever. Also the fact that the cloak Taylor turns out to be a robot when she gets destroyed.

Another two Taylors are present in Delicate. Yet here, Taylor reminds people that she is still the soft, sensitive girl she’s always been. She can’t be the dark, thick-skinned girl she thought she should be in her darkest moments. Which makes me feel like she is more able to embrace the two versions of herself to some extent.

The Delicate MV might be the most important want because the moment Taylor touches the mystical, magical note, she disappears. Which has the same golden halo present in Willow MV and the invisible golden string.

The moment Taylor touches the paper which equals, in my opinion, love, she has to disappear. She can’t be visible cause when she loves she has to hide herself. She has to hide that version of herself.

And while the magic of love and being loved makes her dance her heart out, she ends up being devastated and sad cause at some point, she wants to be seen. She desires living like everybody else. When the sudden rush of love fades, she laments being invisible and alone with her feelings.

When the women in the elevator looks in the mirror, for a second she is so happy that finally someone saw her. But she didn’t. And then she gets sad again.

Also like OOTW, she goes through so many places and stages but THIS TIME to find her love not herself. Which is almost hopeful, that she is already at peace with herself to some extent, she found who she is and is more content with that fact, that at this point, finding her lover is what makes life complete and full.

We see in The Man how Taylor is present in the end of the MV as the director. Directing herself playing a “man”. Which just represents for me Taylor is the mastermind behind her life while she does everything from a “male perspective”. It also is the same thing, two versions of herself.

What also goes with that, is in the Lover MV, there is 7 versions of Taylor, the story of a lifetime, despite being Taylor Swift, the only place she can show her true self is at her house. The 7 versions are the true authentic Taylor. The shiny Taylor isn’t present, simply cause she is home.

In Willow, it isn’t as obvious, it’s in fact a bit different cause when Taylor is locked in the glass-box, it isn’t the shiny Taylor, it is the authentic Taylor that’s why she panics. Which also makes me believe she is blurring the line between both, trying to make them both collide.

And now we come to the the Midnights duality. The Anti-Hero MV.

It’s the first time Taylor patently admits that there is two versions of her. She shows it to the entire world that she is two people. One is her public self and the other is her true self.

But this time the authentic true Taylor is feeling haunted and lonely even in her own house. Which fits the theme of Dear Reader “if you knew where I was walking, to a house not a home, all alone, cause nobody is there”. I believe that this is the time where she locked herself away and decided to hide from everyone around 2016, OR The Great War time.

But also the house could be representative of Taylor’s head and how her brain works. And how this who scene could only be her having a war in her mind, fighting voices from the past and the voice of her own self (shiny Taylor).

In Anti-Hero Taylor isn’t happy either way. Not being her shiny self or her true self. And this is might be a relapse, the darkest moment of her life when her career and success isn’t making up for her hiding. Hiding isn’t being tolerated even when success happens and her career thrives.

Which reminds me of the moment in MA when she says she was at the top of the mountain and said “now what”. Was it all worth it?

The in Bejeweled she does the same thing. She is two versions of herself. The first Taylor cleaning Scott’s shit all those years, locking herself in a cabin, serving others and not herself. Then the shiny Taylor.

This version of the shiny Taylor isn’t as toxic as the one in Anti-Hero which in my opinion means that Taylor in a constant fight with those two versions of herself. In the talent show, she wins through her talent, she gets the castle, but also she swings between the idea that her art is her way of confessing her truth but also it’s a curse cause it’s the reason why she is hiding in the first place.

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Every Taylor Swift Music Video -> delicate

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~Songbird

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11 beat it mv - commentary (full band)

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My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me...

[holdfastperseus]

I just realized Delicate is so Lokius coded especially in S2E2. “My reputation’s never been worse so, you must like me for me” IS LITERALLY LOKIUS

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LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE IN 3 MINS AND 28 SECONDS