Taylor Swift Lives Out Her Gloomy Magic Piano Fantasy In The Video For “cardigan”

July 24, 2020 / Posted by:

As promised, Taylor Swift dropped her eighth studio album last night, the capitalization-averse folklore. And in her latest album, Taylor has learned how to cuss, which means there’s about to be a whole lot of brave preteen transitions from “shoot” to “fuckin’ shit.” Along with the album, came the first music video, for the aforementioned “cardigan.” Because I’m about two decades late when it comes to music, my first instinct was to wait and see what The Cardigans had to say about all of this. But the similarities start and end at the name only. Because the only person Taylor could possibly be singing, “Love me love me, say that you love me?” to, is a piano repair person, while trying to get a discount on chipped key replacement and excessive moss removal.

cardigan” is the second song on the album, and Taylor’s first single from her surprise quarantine album. She already gave us a video sneak peek on Instagram, and now we have the whole thing. The teaser of “cardigan” kind of made it look like Taylor had gotten really into 1991 film Hook. But the video for “cardigan” is more like if the song “Sweater Weather” took some melatonin, started sleepwalking, and woke up inside an abandoned Anthropologie store.

The video, which was directed by Taylor in only the safest, most socially-distanced COVID-19 conditions takes place in an old cabin at around 1:15 am. The inside of Taylor’s piano starts leaking gold dust, and she decides to crawl inside. She exits through the bench seat and finds herself in an overgrown forest, where her piano is now a waterfall. Did Taylor discover LSD in quarantine? Maybe. She jumps back into the bench seat and finds herself in the water in the middle of a storm. Luckily, the piano is the Jack to her Rose. Eventually, she climbs back inside the piano, and she’s home again. Forget Hook, Taylor’s DVD player has clearly got a copy of Inception stuck in it.

In non-video news, the release of folklore might have also revealed the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ third child. Taylor and Blake and been friends for a long time, and Blake’s daughter James can be heard on the song “Gorgeous,” from her Reputation album. The Swifties have started combing over every single syllable on folklore for clues of anything, which has them ending up at the conclusion that the Lively-Reynolds baby is named Betty. In the song “betty,” which one Vulture writer has argued is the queerest thing Taylor has done since dip herself in rainbows for Lover, Taylor names two characters – James and Inez (Inez would be the name of their second daughter). Since there are only three names mentioned in the song, fans believe Taylor was not-so-secretly naming off Blake’s kids’ names.

That’s probably it. But in the song, Taylor is singing about how she did a girl named Betty dirty one summer, when she maybe two-timed her with another girl. Maybe Taylor is confessing to a secret affair with Betty White? It’s possible – I mean, who doesn’t love Betty White?

Pic: YouTube

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