Taylor Swift premiered the music video for Look What You Made Me Do at the 2017
MTV Video Music Awards, and some fans believe they've spotted hidden messages. Welcome
back to What's Trending, I'm Shira Lazar. Be sure to LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE
for more. The music video had a ton of references to Taylor's life including
her famous feuds, her love life, and more. Okay we're gonna be talking about a lot
here and I'm not a Taylor Swift expert, but we do have one here at What's
Trending. Please welcome Denise who's our resident
Taylor Swift fangirl expert. Thanks, Shira. But I'm actually a crazy
obsessed Taylor Swift fan girl. Oh my God! Watching the Look What You Made Me Do
videos literally brought tears to my eyes seeing Taylor Swift kill all the
old Taylor's. We saw Fearless era Swift, we saw Red era Swift, we saw all of
the Swift's there, and it was kind of really sad and really emotional, but at
the same time I am so proud and happy for Taylor that she is moving on and she
is claiming back her reputation. Alright, but enough about me let's go back to
where this video begins with the zombies. It seems to be a reference to the music
video for Out Of The Woods, which was a part of Taylor Swift's last album, 1989.
At the end of this graveyard sequence we see Taylor at the bottom of the grave
wearing the same dress she wore to the 2014 Met Gala. It's as if she's picking
up from her last album, but now things are a lot more different. Whoa... There are
many references to the 2009 VMA incident with Kanye West where everything changed.
At the end of the video among all the different versions of Taylor there's a
version of her from the 2009 VMAs saying, "I would very much like to be excluded from
this narrative." Taylor made a similar comment regarding the controversy that
began when Kanye West interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech for Best
Female Video. That moment ignited a feud that would never be settled between
Kanye West and Taylor Swift and even both of their fandoms. Kanye reopened the
feud when he included Taylor in the music video for his song Famous,
including the lyric, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made
that b*tch famous." Kanye claims that he got permission from
Taylor to use this line, however Taylor's team has denied this. Taylor opens her
new video with the lyrics, "I don't like your little games / don't like your
tilted stage / the role you made me play of the fool / no I don't like you." An
obvious jab at Kanye West's suspended stage from his St. Pablo Tour.
Oh, she's sly. Speaking of celebrity feuds, Taylor Swift also takes a jab at her
longtime frenemy, Katy Perry. Taylor, sporting a look very similar to Katy
Perry's, caresses a Grammy Award. Many people think that Taylor Swift is
actually throwing shade to Katy Perry because Katy Perry has won zero Grammys and
Taylor Swift has won ten. Now I get it... Taylor also made references of her
battles with streaming music services. One segment of the video shows Taylor
and friends robbing the bolt of a company named Stream Co. Taylor has
notoriously fought against Apple Music and Spotify due to royalty issues for
herself and other artists. Taylor also pokes fun at herself during this music
video. She portrays herself as the powerful leader of a group of pretty
robots playing with the public perception that her squad all look the
same and are easily replaced. Taylor also makes another reference to her girl
squad later in the video. Taylor's t-shirt from the video for You
Belong With Me gets an update for 2017. In Look What You Made Me Do, the names
have been changed to reflect Taylor's new squad. There are also a few
references to Taylor's love life in the music video. In one sequence there are 8
backup dancers thought to represent eight of Taylor's famous ex-lovers each
wearing an I heart TS crop top. Remember Taylor's ex, Tom Hiddleston, was spotted
wearing a similar tank top during Taylor's big 4th of July party on the
coast of Rhode Island. There are also thought to be a few references to
Taylor's ex Calvin Harris. In the graveyard there is a tombstone for
Nils Sjöberg which was the pseudonym for Swift used when co-writing This Is
What You Came For with Calvin Harris. Taylor even dresses up as Harris in the
segment of the music video where she cuts the wings off a jet with a chainsaw.
Who knew? There is even a reference to Taylor's recent sexual assault trial. This
year she appeared in court in a sexual assault case. She was being countersued
by a radio DJ who claimed that he lost his job because Taylor Swift spoke up
about the DJ grabbing her butt during a photo op. At the end of the trial the
jury awarded Taylor Swift $1 as a symbolic victory. That dollar can be seen
next to Taylor's shoulder while she's sitting in the tub of jewelry.
Taylor's details are so subtle she really thought of everything and the
scene where she's on the phone she's actually using a phone similar to the
one that was used in her music video for Our Song. And if you don't get it by now,
clearly we're seeing that Taylor Swift is getting rid of the old Taylor's. She's
no longer soft, she's this hard Taylor getting back her reputation. And if you
guys remember from her album Speak Now, nobody does revenge better than Taylor
Swift. Alright, that was your crazy obsessed Taylor Swift fan girl report.
Back to you, Shira! Woah, Denise. Thanks a lot! That was a lot of crazy sh*t. So did you
notice any of these messages in Look What You Made Me Do? Any that we missed?
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