After thousands of calls, ts7 finally came. At midnight on April 26, US time, Taylor Swift revealed the first single "me!", from her seventh album, along with the single mv.
Xiao Tianhou's new album has of course received global attention, after all, fans have been waiting for the new album for two years, and it is hard to finally wait for the official announcement.
Once the mv was released, the number of plays on the first day exceeded 56.9 million, breaking the record and becoming the highest MV on the first day of Vevo, which is also the third time that Taylor broke the record of vevo's first day of playback, which is really very slay.
In fact, since February 25, Taylor has released its own unique new "countdown" on various social software, this long-lasting "ts7 spoiler plan" is completely "torturing" fans, and the trivial pictures are confusing, but they seem to point to a new style.
Taylor's ins has been flooded with blingbling's pink teasers, full of girlish heart love diamonds, fluffy pink yarn, cute cats... The dreamy pink filter of each picture reveals the sweet smell of this new album.
Even the dress she recently attended the event was too girly to be heartwarming, yesterday attended the 2019 Billboard Music Awards ceremony just on the hot search, a raisa & vanessa taro purple dress, with pink and purple eye makeup, incarnated as a fairy fairy.
There is also the look that attended this year's iheart radio awards, which is also full of spring atmosphere, a rosa bloom of pink purple sequin jumpsuit.
Covered in pink-purple sequins, she has her own starlight effects under the flash, and even the matching sophia webster heels are embellished with a pair of multicolored butterflies that reflect the light.
Some time ago, Taylor was also selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine this year, not only one of the only three female singers on the list, but also on the cover of Time Magazine magazine, and the cover style was also pink and tender.
Attending the 2019 time 100 gala, she wore a pink-yellow dress from J.Mendel's Spring '19 collection, with delicate diamond hair bands and fairy coils that made her feel like she had just come out of a fairy tale.
The girlish Instagram trailer coupled with the unusual pink look makes people dream back to the princess in the castle during the "love story" period, and people keep speculating whether the country music style of "Old Taylor" is back.
It agonized to wait for Taylor himself to "spoil" for two months before finally ushering in the new single "me!" public, and the ear-catching melody and the picture of the candy color matching created this pink summer limited "sweet mold".
In fact, each album has a different style, but Taylor and stylist Joseph Cassell always make the costume style perfectly fit the theme of the album, conveying her music and ideas.
The seven sets of new singles are very eye-catching, and the use of color is also very bold. It fits the lyrics of the lyrics about the uniqueness of each person, to learn to accept, embrace their own personality to show colorful charm.
Taylor's first outfit was this French-inspired monique lhuillier dress.
Dressed in goose-yellow suits and mint green suits, dancers dance a "macaron flavor" dance in the streets of a fairytale town.
Sitting on the unicorn, the monica ivena gauze skirt turned into a pink waterfall, and the silk pleated blouse of amorphose couture made her look like a pink fluffy strawberry marshmallow.
Dancing in dazzling scenes all the time, she is like a princess coming out of a Disney musical.
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Although many netizens speculated that Taylor's new single "me!" will return to the original country music, in fact, after watching "me!", they found that it is not a typical "old Taylor" style, but the cheerful melody and the dreamy colors of the screen make people see a better and sunnier Taylor reborn.
In fact, this colorful color has been missing for a long time, compared to the "blackened" Taylor of the previous album "reputation", the bright and cheerful musical style and the full macaron color of "me!" are completely different from the first order "look what you made me do" at that time.
As we all know, she has been in the middle of public opinion over the years, experienced many storms, and has been plagued by controversy through a difficult period.
Since 2013, she and Katy Perry, a once-good friend, have been feuding, and according to TMZ, the conflict stems from Taylor's red tour, when three accompanists were poached by Sister Fruit, and Taylor felt that the accompaniment was like her family, which was a betrayal.
Both had also been involved with the same man, with Fruit and John Mayer officially breaking up in 2014 after two years of separate relationships, and Taylor writing a song "Dear John" after breaking up with him in 2009.
In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Taylor revealed that the single "Bad Blood" from the new album "1989" was an allusion to his relationship with a female star — "For years, I wasn't sure if we were friends or not." Last year, she did something out of the ordinary. My feeling at the time was that we were intolerable enemies. "And it's not even just about a guy, it's about business, she's basically trying to sabotage my whole tour."
Soon after, Sister Fruit seemed to be fighting back on Twitter, "Beware of those cunning women in sheep's clothing." ”
These contradictions and entanglements between the two lasted for four years, until 2018, when Taylor posted a handwritten letter from Sister Fruit in Instagram, "Hey, old friend, I have been thinking about the past misunderstandings and feelings between us, hoping to freeze the previous suspicions..." The relationship between the two has eased.
Of course, Sister Fruit isn't the only one who has had an entanglement with Taylor, billboard has reported that Taylor and Nicki Minaj have also had a lot of disputes.
Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" at the 2015 MTV Music Video Awards went unnomined, and she subsequently posted a tweet saying, "If your MV is praising women who are slim, you can also get a nomination for Video of the Year." Taylor thinks she's being nominated for her bad blood and replies to Nicki that she's always liked and supported Nicki and doesn't argue with women like she does.
Nicki responded that she didn't say anything bad about Taylor, that she liked her just as much and didn't target her. Taylor then offered to invite Nicki to the stage if she won the award, and Nicki also explained that the previous tweet was accusing some media of racial and female body discrimination.
The Twitter dispute between the two eventually ended with Taylor apologizing to Nicki, but the dispute caused fans to blame each other for defending their favorite singers, which also had a negative impact on the two of them.
But what really brought Taylor into a trough was the 2016 lyrics controversy with Kanye and Kim Kardashian. Kanye mentions Taylor in his song "Famous" – "i feel like me and taylor might still have sex, i made that b**ch famous."
Although Kanye said that she had called Taylor beforehand to write the lyrics after agreeing to it, Taylor said that she did not know that insulting words would appear.
Kanye's wife, Kim Kardashian, then uploaded a recording of their call with Taylor, and Taylor responded that the recording did not mention that he would call himself "b**ch" and questioned that the act of recording and uploading it without permission violated his rights.
During the controversy, Taylor and his ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris also had trouble. The two broke up in June 2016, and Taylor's team revealed that Harris and Rihanna's collaborative song "This Is What You Came For" was co-written by Taylor under a pseudonym.
Harris posted a series of tweets expressing his anger, claiming that the two had negotiated to keep the matter a secret, and that Taylor had embarrassed him on stage by making it public. Since then, a large number of Harris fans have swiped the emoji of "snake" under Taylor's social media accounts to express their dissatisfaction, and even Kardashian has tweeted and satirized Taylor on International Snake Day.
From her debut to the present, Taylor has not stopped the controversy about her boyfriend, many people criticize her for breaking up and writing her ex-boyfriend into a song, and changing boyfriends frequently seems to be playing with feelings.
For a time, netizens who were dissatisfied with Taylor's disputes with many stars and emotional problems brushed up on the #tarlorswiftsnake # topic and snake emoji, and Taylor was mocked as a snake with a heart. In the face of a tidal wave of black reviews and online violence, Taylor emptied the content of all social accounts and disappeared from the public eye.
In fact, about her feelings, what many people don't know is that first, she doesn't just write songs about love, she also has a lot of songs about friendship and family affection; second, she said that she will not write songs without feelings, if she does not write her true feelings into the songs, these songs will not poke so many people and become fire songs, not to mention that not every time she proposes to break up.
Under too much pressure and public opinion, Taylor showed the dissatisfaction and resistance of the media public who maliciously distorted herself in the sixth album, and the dark style and oppressive content made her style also strong and unrestrained.
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"Look What You Made Me Do" expresses that she will still be strong even if she is negatively attacked, that Taylor in the past is "dead", and now that I am completely different, I will always be at the top. This is her most direct and domineering response to these online violence and public opinion.
She didn't give any interviews after the release of the album "Reputation", she said that "I don't want to express anything other than the song", and the album contains her counterattack against all the denigration and criticism.
She told fans during the reputation tour, "A few years ago, someone launched a hate campaign online calling me a "snake." With so many people involved, I feel lower than ever. It would be nice if we could get an apology from the person who bullied us, but maybe all I can get is satisfaction, and that's knowing that I can get through it and grow in adversity. ”
As a singer-songwriter, Taylor has always written his thoughts and feelings into the songs, "I want to be able to remember the best and worst times." ”
The lyrics of "me!" presumably represent her completely changed state of mind after "blackening", on April 30, Taylor in an interview with Australian radio station Kyle and Jackie O show about the new order, Taylor generously said: "The snake at the beginning of the mv has a meaning", and the host also said: "I think we all know what it means." ”
Today, Taylor can calmly face the black name that hurt her, and she also said that being a human being should be like a snake, and when others step on themselves, they must be brave to fight back.
She has also been using her own practical actions to show everyone that she really did this, the most representative of which is the 2013 buttocks sexual harassment incident.
A David Mueller radio DJ lifted her skirt and touched her buttocks while taking a photo with Taylor, and then Taylor asked the security guards to take the man out and permanently forbid him from her concert, which spread to the place where the man worked and caused him to lose his job.
The resentful DJ not only denied sexual harassment two years later but also sued Taylor for compensation, Taylor first counterclaimed DJ for sexual harassment, and at the same time claimed $1 from him, the meaning is obvious, "I don't want money, I want you to know that you are wrong." ”
In court, Taylor aggressively shrugged back at the opposing lawyer, "I would never allow you, and your client (David Mueller), to think it was my fault because it wasn't." The case ended in Taylor's victory, after which she issued a statement saying that she would donate money to multiple organizations that help victims of sexual harassment in the future to empower them to protect themselves as she did.
The incident was supported by many women, and many people came to the scene on the day of the trial.
Because her bravery to stand up is not as simple as speaking up for herself, as a singer with global influence, her act of fighting for herself is actually to fight for the rights and set an example for all women who have experienced sexual harassment.
Whether it is in the face of black fans' bad reviews or sexual harassment, she is "bravely fighting back" in her own way, "I know that I have friends and fans in my life, they don't care if my reputation is ruined, they still guard me in my worst moments." 」 The concern my fans and friends have for me, my happiness, and my music are all panaceas for getting me through tough times. ”
Today's Taylor not only has friends and fans who can't be abandoned, but also a sweet love affair with her current boyfriend Joe Alwyn, which is of course one of the reasons why she came out of the shadows and returned to pink.
Unlike in the past, they are very low-key and have a very normal life in this relationship. They worked out together, watched movies together, and got friends together, and instead of making her private life public, she was much happier, which she attributed to Joe and realized how good her life was.
Accompanied by sweet and low-key love, friends and fans are still guarding her side, and Taylor, who dares to love and hate, has once again become the cheerful and straightforward princess of the past.
The former black name "snake" has also turned into a multicolored butterfly in the new specialty, and she has also flown away from the shadow and confusion of the "whole network black", all the pain has been released, bidding farewell to the past self, and now is the happiest "me", cherishing the uniqueness of "me".
As the lyrics read: "i'm the only one of me. baby that's the fun of me. (I am the only me in the world, and that's what makes me so charming).) Taylor, who returned with such a beautiful new attitude, should want to tell people that while spring is not over, summer is coming, from the moment on, love yourself and embrace yourself.