Campsite media.

So Taylor Swift ended 2016 on a low note, to say the least,

she was in a public feud with

Kagnay West and Kim Kardashian. Her mom, who she was incredibly close

with, was sick with cancer. She was, at least she felt like she was, persona non grata.

So Taylor found comfort where she always had, the pen.

And in August 2017, Taylor released her first single from her new album, Reputation.

It's an acerbic stabbing pop song about a woman who has been wronged on the public stage, but rises. a being metaphorical here. These are literal lyrics from the song.

I'm sorry the old tailor can't come to the phone right now.

Why? Oh, because she's dead. But it's the video that accompanies this lead single that is the clearest depiction of Taylor's state of mind if a little on the nose

It all begins in a foggy graveyard with a tight shot of a giant

gravestone that has these words carved in it. Here lies Taylor Swift's

reputation. Then a zombie Taylor Swift drags herself out of the grave and start singing.

I don't like your little games.

It's clearly a pointed reference to Kaniya West and the references keep coming

Soon Taylor is sitting on a swing inside a giant gold bird cage just like the one she used to have in her Nashville home.

She's a cage songbird, get it?

That could be a reference to her label head, Scott Bochetta.

And this Taylor seems not happy about him or whoever it is or anything pretty much at all.

She's robbing a safe, riding a motorbike, wearing a militaristic latex outfit and instructing an army of women. There's even an image of her

in front of her version of the cross, a giant tea. Then she's standing on a

heaving pile of women like one of those paintings you see in a museum of an old Spanish

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