Taylor Swifts' song, Blank
Space, consists of many non-literal metaphors, analogies, and phrases of speech.
I chose this visual idea for this particular song because I had many ideas to
ensure that my video would fit both lyrically and musically by connecting the
figures of speech to a realistic scenario. The entire video is essentially
based of off her lyrics, "love's a game. Wanna play?" So, I literally
made a game, titled it Love, and the characters played it. When she
says, "I could show you incredible things," her bottle of perfume is
shown because Swifts' latest fragrance is literally titled Incredible Things.
The video also shows a "list of ex-lovers", and the male character's
name, Dylan, is written in the blank space. When Taylor Swift sings, "I
get drunk on jealousy," she does not truly get drunk on jealousy. What she
means is that jealousy is theoretically intoxicating her, perhaps taking over
her whole body and effecting her actions and choices, as alcohol would. This is
my personal favorite part of the video, as the girl character, Claudia, acts
out actually having a drink called Jealousy. Due to these relations
between the conjectures and the actions shown, this is an effective music video
to sell this song.
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