The snakes are there, because they called her a snake during the Kanye incident. Also the beginning of the song is in reference to Kanye, because he had a tilted stage on a tour. "I don't like your little games, don't like your tilted stage, the role you made me play, the fool, no I don't like you...."

Knox Hill did a great breakdown of this video. He caught some nuances that I missed and I appreciated it even more.

The circus ringleader outfit is from her Red tour, it is not a recurring thing. Taylor is not the breakup girl, she had her heart broken by breakup guys.

Two little bits to note from this song - in the graveyard there is The Nils Sjoberg tombstone - Nils Sjoberg was the pseudonym that Swift used for a songwriting credit on her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris’ 2016 summer hit, “This Is What You Came For" Also in the bathtub of diamonds is a one dollar bill that represents the $1 she was awarded after she won her sexual assault case against former radio DJ David Mueller.

This is her most Easter egg filled video. She said herself that it will be years before we figure them all out.

There’s so much to this video that it would take a spreadsheet. It can’t be covered in one comment.

It's a diss track. She's the queen of taking negative things said and done to her, and making them her own - turning it around. She's brilliant. Every part of this video means something and is a reference to someone.

To me her best revenge is she uses the hate they give her and creates hit after hit . Shes so talented and sweet .❤❤❤

Fun reaction! Dance sequence was bc critics all said she can’t dance. Just a tidbit. Looking forward to the next TS reaction!

6:51 that’s exactly it, she had to “kill” the old versions of herself in order to take control of her narrative again. The graveyard scene in the beginning was very much about that concept. It was a shock and awe moment that had he exact effect she was looking for. She’s super cheeky too because every album has references to snakes, from the imagery, to the lyrics, she absolutely embraces it lol 😂❤️ Thankfully, she squashed all the haters and has been able to embrace all of herself again, from sweet to edgy to funny to powerful to the absolute best of all things good and beautiful again. 🥰❤️🥰

Excited to see this! Missed your Taylor reactions :) Suggestion: Out of the Woods (partly because where that music video ends, is with her wearing the dress that this music video stars with!). In the bathtub of jewelry is a single dollar bill, signifying the $1 she won countersuing the man who assaulted her. He'd sued her for wrongful termination after her accusation.

A friend of mine was always snapping pictures of everyone when we'd hang out. I don't like having my picture taken so I asked him why he did it. He said "Elisa, we are young and we are beautiful! These are the days we want to remember!" and he was right. It'll always bother me how people judged Taylor for living her best life as much as she could. Good on her for making a billion for her talents and savvy.

The words "this doesn't sound like a Taylor Swift song" are amusing because she covers to many genres and styles that you could say that about any one of her songs, depending on which albums you've heard up to that point. This was from her Reputation era. If you had started with this album, or her 1989 album, you would have said songs from her folklore album "don't sound like Taylor Swift" 😁 To celebrate this idea, I offer you a song that gives you yet another example of her musical range: Taylor Swift - "False God" (Live on Saturday Night Live / 2019) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odB0Zq-gvdaRgKs.html

Joseph Kahn was the director of this video. He directed a total of 8 Music videos with Taylor through her 1989/Reputation Era.

It is on the Reputation album. It has to do with the industry and especially Kim and Kanye incidents. We need to have a real Swiftie to detail out a lot of what this video means. The Snakes has to do with Kim calling her a snake.

The snakes are a both Kim/Kanye. As Kim is the one who called her a snake which caused the whole Internet social media to turn their backs on Taylor’s phone in 2015/16 there’s a whole video about Kanye West recording and Kim having everything to do with editing the whole conversation. The truth finally came out as the whole video was released. In her new album there is a song called Cassandra, which addresses this whole situation. I hope you can get to eventually🥰 great reaction

Welcome, Andie! This is my first time seeing you on HPR, and you're a good addition; I enjoyed the extra conversation. Yes, she had fun making this video and again didn't spare any expense in realizing her vision for this video. Taylor is a worthy successor to Michael Jackson when he was at his peak with music videos. This "Look What You Made Me Do" music video contains lots of easter eggs for swifties; Scott touched on some and was pretty spot-on on the history. This "Reputation" album and "Look What You Made Me Do" music video is a response to her being set up and wrongfully accused by Kanye and Kim of lying through (an illegal and) a doctored recording they made of their telephone conversation with Taylor. Kanye and Kim and their fans were hating on Taylor all over social media. Taylor couldn't prove Taylor wasn't lying and all the hate was too much for a girl raised to seek the approval of others, so Taylor disappeared herself in England for 1 year. A year in which she hardly trusted anyone and a lot of people didn't trust her, and almost nobody saw her. There, she switched to creating her "Reputation" album, which was another metamorphosis of her music. Years later, the full recording leaked out and finally proved that Taylor was the one telling the truth. A snake correction: I wouldn't say Taylor likes snakes. The first time I saw Taylor have snakes was in this video, in response to the aforementioned Kanye and Kim incident, in which Kim disrespectfully called her a snake, which was then repeated by so many haters on social media. The existence of the snake emoji didn't help. Scott mentioned how she often takes disrespect towards her and morphs it, the snake is a great example of it, as is the tabloid image that she turned into her masterpiece song and music video "Blank Space", in which she poetically summarized her tabloid image as "I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream", which may still be her personal all-time favorite line. For Taylor's Reputation Stadium Tour, she also had a massive snake towering above the stage. The final time I saw Taylor have snakes is in her "Me!" music video, which Scott, Sam, and I all love. It's the first single from her "Lover" album. In that "Me!" music video, a pastel snake transforms into a swarm of butterflies, which is an easter egg that symbolizes her transformation between "Reputation" (then her previous album) and "Lover" (then her current album). Butterflies are the spirit animal for her "Lover" album. In reality, what Taylor really likes is cats 🐈. The various Taylors were her in costume from points throughout her previous album eras. And she gives them their tabloid personalities. Taylor has said that to stay relevant, she feels that her music must go through metamorphoses from album to album. I think it's a bit risky for most artists to stray as far as she has, but I think Taylor is such and incredible songwriter and entertainer that I'm really enjoying it. She's been my favorite music artist for 10+ years now.

She didn’t start directing her videos until 2019 when Lover came out. She first co-directed the music videos and “The Man” was her first solo-directed video. From 2019-Present, she’s directed all of her videos except for “I Bet You Think About Me” from “Red (Taylor’s Version)” that was released in 2021. Even though she didn’t direct her videos prior to 2019, she was the one who came up with all the treatment plans… so she’s always been involved with how the music videos turned out in the end.

One thing I find so great about Taylor's discography is that her experiments within each new era constantly broadens her audience pool. This is the video that made me sit up and pay attention to Taylor Swift. She took all those toxic jokes and snide comments and put them into her first video back after her hiatus, and basically told everyone to f*ck off. I was sold from that day forward and have been a Swiftie ever since.

Lots of great metaphors here that you need to be in on the lore to catch…like when she’s robbing the vault, there’s a digital crawl sign that says it’s a streaming service, and that’s a reference to when she pulled her catalog from Spotify to protest how little artists are paid per stream. The motorcycle sequence, when she lifts the motorcycles…she’s carrying Big Machine records. In the bridge, where she’s standing on the mountain of old Taylors, it’s a crucifixion reference. She’s being crucified in the public sphere, her reputation is rising above all the dying personas and resurrecting afresh. Many, many, many metaphors in this one!

This video is so genius! You need to watch one of the videos explaining all the details

This was the first single from the Reputation album where she came out of her self-imposed exile and hit everyone over the head with a new sound. Like you said she took all of the negative talk about her and twisted it into something biting and sometimes funny. This video is full of references to her conflict with Kanye, Kim K, Katy Perry, the music streaming services, her record label, etc. She stands on top of the “Taylor mountain” of her past selves in front of T that looks suspiciously like a cross and tells us that if she’s going to be crucified for everything she does then she’s going to kill off her nice image. It’s hard to describe how shocking it was at the time for the fans!

Fun fact: This is the only song where she openly used a sample in the song to be petty. The bass line is from Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy. She always produced and written her music videos and went as a co-Director for a couple of them before she directed them herself. Taylor has always been directly involved with every single process of making her videos. Doing storyboards to editing being with the director to watch footage back. She has very good knowledge of how to do pretty much everything. I’m super excited to see what her feature length film will be. All her directed MV are Top Tier and we know how phenomenal of a writer she is. so I think she’ll nail it.

You guys are so perceptive for not knowing the lore! I love how you engage with her work.

I loved the video! I need more reactions to Taylor🥰

Love your Abott & Costello banter at the beginning over the name of the song, 😂

Reputation album was my first taylor album that I fell in love with!

This is so wholesome 😂😂😂😂 the dad jokes are GOLD!!!!

There are so many Easter eggs. She is hitting back at so many things here.

Amazing reaction! By far one of her best videos if not THE BEST aside from Ready For It!

Congrats 🎉 on closing in on 10K subs...Scott Jr. 😄 needs to contact KZfaq to get another milestone plaque ready for HPR! Best of luck in this and everything!

This video was premiered at the MTV music awards. In a way her music is her perspective on pop culture in a time capsule. She is a major consumer of pop culture- music, books, film, TV. I could see that she paid homage to many popular programs & many MTV female videos preceding her. The director worked with others like Britney Spears. From the start she wrote & performed her own music - some describe as diaristic. She left a major label (RCA Nashville) because they wanted her to perform others music & shelve her until 18. The indie label gave her more creative control- but they had to think out of the box because they didn't have the power or clout of more established labels.

Would love for you to react to Dear John Speak now tour - it's incredible performance

It was directed by Joseph Kahn..

Lol love the microphone on the hat! You guys crack me up, thanks for the fun keep up the good work!

I'm so happy you guys get our girl!!❤

I read in other comments, that this was the most expansive video ever. (Not sure if that was true then or might still be true, but quite possible). Director was Joseph Khan, who did many videos with her during 1989 and Reputation. 😎

Taylor has directed every music video from “the man” (which is on the Lover album) to present day. You are watching a video from reputation, which is the last album she put out before owning her masters, or having the control to decide to make her own videos. Shes made over 60 music videos, maybe close to 70 by now. Plus a short film shot on film.

There is a one dollar bill sitting in the tub of diamonds with her. It symbolizes her sexual harassment lawsuit, she only sued for a dollar. The cat buglar scene represents her clapping back at all the streaming services. Taylor has stated it will take years for everyone to decode all of the Easter eggs in this video.

Joseph Kahn directed this video. I think this and Out of the Woods are her best music videos.

Joseph Kahn directed all her 1989 and Reputation videos. He is the GOAT. She learned a lot from him. We love his videos.

This album was her comeback from all the negative experiences she went through with the media, Kanye, and Kim K. This song is her straight up eff you to all the haters that tried to cancel her and make it sound like she was a “lying” “snake”. She completely shed her sweet country/pop persona for this. It’s super dark and edgy at times but, for a lot of Swifties, this album is her best one. She went from obscurity and not being seen in public for a year to this fantastic album!! The dollar bill in the bathtub is about her SA case with that DJ that stuck his hand up her skirt and grabbed her butt when she was posing for a photo. She won the case, and only asked for $1 on the principal. Also in the bathtub scene, Kim K was pulling her usual BS and said Taylor was making fun of when Kim was supposedly robbed at gunpoint in the bathtub during the Rio Olympics. 👀🙄😂 Taylor has several music videos that make use of the bathtub aesthetics. There are SO many Easter eggs in this video. No one can do a comeback take control of her narrative like our girl Taylor can. Thank you for the reaction. ❤

I love how she takes the insult hurled at her by some guy's wife, and turned it into a power symbol. To me, the snake imagery in this video is her saying, "You call me a snake? Bitch, I am QUEEN of snakes!"

the car crash was also in ref to katy perry. she had beef with her at the time, since resolved, but that why it looks just like katy perry. the bathtub scene, theres a dollar bill in the tub, ref her lawsuit against someone for a dollar. a dj that assaulted her, so she complained and he got fired so he sued her and she counter sued for a buck and won i think. theres alot of lore in all her videos and music, and she leaves easter eggs referencing other videos etc, its all a web, the deeper you dive, the more complicated it gets and its freaking awesome

The car crash scene refers to the situation with Katy Perry. That’s why she’s styled in such peculiar fashion and why there’s a big cat in the car. The plastic girls is referring to the criticism of her girl squad, the cat burglary scene is about the streaming services situation. The first scenes are about Kanye, Kim and the sexual assault case she won. The ring master costume is not a running theme of hers. 😂 The snakes 🐍 are because of the fact that her social media was inundated by this emoji when people turned on her after the lies of Kim Kardashian who went as far as to edit an illegal recording between Taylor and Kanye to make it look like she was lying. She wasn’t, but she appropriated the emoji for her comeback. 😂

Have you all Reacted to her Live Reputation videos? Specifically Ready For It with the Intro, I Did Something Bad and Don’t Blame Me? It’s a whole other side to her that I think you will appreciate if you haven’t already reacted to them! I looked on your page and couldn’t see them. Thanks again for another great reaction! You know we love you!❤

Yall gotta do BAD BLOOD mv featuring Lamar. Its her best MV IMO. Like a movie Has over 1 Billion views.

you should watch her do this live

You should listen to Vigilante Shit. Its about how she got back at her old producer for taking advantage of her.

You have to do The Man. You will have fun.

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10:07 Kim k and ye called her a snake and a lier when she denied giving permission to ye to do what he did. Snake gate happened after they did that. The internet melted down hating her because they were much more influential than her in those days.

This music video is the most expensive music video of all time 20 million

Please react to The Tortured Poets Department tracks. There's a total of 31 songs so many choices for you. The song titles itself is kinda intriguing, I hope you react to them. ❤

8 guys dancing behind her. 8 famous ex bfs. (joe jonas, taylor lautner, john mayer, jake gyllenhall, connor kennedy, harry styles, calvin harris & tom hiddleston)

React to Bad Blood and You need to calm down lots of cameos and great songs

It is the Reputation album. This was specifically about people who tried to ruin her reputation with lies (Kanye and Kim). Each girl is a different persona that people thought they saw.

You are correct this song and video are about the reputation that the media and others have portrayed her to be and are not true so she is basically owning it and shoving it back in their faces. Yea there are stabs at Kanye in this.

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2:34 in an interview she said that if you listen closely in this shot, before getting to the grave, she wanted drums that sound like the “Dothraki” were the ones drumming. She didn’t direct this one, so it’s barely audible. She said that this video was heavily influenced by season seven of GOT, that was what inspired her so much she actually wanted ti write music again. this was after “snake gate” and #taylorswiftisoverparty She was too depressed to work or write music for two years due to the trauma of feeling hate from the entire internet over something about her that wasn’t even true. This whole album is inspired by GOT because that’s what gave her the confidence to avenge her own reputation. Similar to how the Starks were avenging their father’s “reputation” Anyway, I loved learning those details I hope you find them as interesting as I did ✌🏼

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You should react to her song Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

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Coldplay x Bts My Universe directed by Mike Meyers there is making of mv and a documentary about recording the song

It'd be cool if you guys watched a breakdown of this🤞

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Can you react to a MIKA song? Pls 🥰

Hello. Can you please react to RM's new album "Right place, Wrong Person" out on Friday May 24th. RM is a rapper and member of BTS.

Blackpink when?

She must like snakes 😂

Like your reactions , I’m just not a fan of her music. She is very talented, and an amazing artist but her music just doesn’t interest me.

Guy in the middle has no idea what he is talking about. NONE.

the red ringmaster costume is something she wore during the Red album Tour. all those different Taylors on the hill fighting to reach Reputation Taylor, represent her past eras. they're all from different albums. this video is a direct response to Kim and Kanye making a wax s3x figure doll of Taylors naked body and putting it in a music video in a bed next to kanye with the line "Taylor and me might still have sex. why? I made that b*tch famous" they called her and illegally recorded the conversation then edited it and posted it online and said she lied, when she did not in fact lie. the full call was later leaked and taylor had always been telling the truth, that she was never made aware of the line and never approved it as they claimed she did. Kim posted "wow it's so crazy they have holidays for everyone- I mean everything these days 🐍🐍🐍" on national snake day with a million snake emojis. she disappeared for an entire year from public life. her instagram was overrun by snakes to the point where Instagram tested a new feature that could hide comments. Taylor was 27 at the time, Kim was 36. They attempted to ruin her reputation and destroy her career, bullying her on social media and lying about her on her reality show. Thank you aimee 🫶 🐍 for helping inspire an amazing album.

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Hello, Can you please react to RM's new album 'Right place Wrong person' out on Friday May 24th. RM is a Rapper and a member of BTS 🌟