Taylor Swift Shows Her Sensual Side in "Style"

After two lighthearted "1989" music videos, "Blank Space" and "Shake It Off," Taylor Swift gets darker and shows her sensual side with her latest video for her newest single "Style," inspired by her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles of One Direction. The moody new video is a different beast, showcasing the 25-year-old pop singer-songwriter in a darker, more abstract and light.
This song about a relationship with a guy who has "slicked-back hair" appears to be Swift looking back at her time with Styles. The clue is not only in the title, but also Harry used to rock a slicked-back hair style. But that's not to say that "Style" doesn't properly define its relationship. It just has that catchy dance-party vibe that makes you fall in love with a pop song.
Featuring her BFF Sarah Hyland's boyfriend Dominic Sherwood, the captivating video is filled with special effects and gorgeous beauty shots of Swift, who sporting her trademark "red lip, classic thing that you like" look while walking barefoot through a forest and cozying up to her love interest in a lightning storm in between some artsy shots of Swift disappearing into puffs of smoke and waves crashing on a picturesque beach. Throughout the video, Swift and her man are haunted by memories of each other, the lyrics also nod toward a similar conflict, before the pair is ultimately reunited before the video fades out.

Taylor Swift Is In On The Joke For "Blank Space"

Taylor Swift unexpectedly premiered the life-changing "Blank Space" music video Monday morning via Yahoo Screen. The Max Martin and Shellback co-produced pop record is the official second single from Swift's newest album "1989," which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 last week having sold over 1 million copies in just 7 days!
This song finds Swift sending up her image as a heartbreaker who writes all of her songs about former boyfriends. She warns us that she's "got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" plus she has, "a blank space baby, and I'll write your name." Swift said her intention with this track was to run wild with the way the media portrays how she conducts her romantic life. Swift explained "Boys only want love if it's torture and a constant chase. Men want love if it's real, right, healthy and consistent."
"Blank Space" has been called Swift's "Gone Girl" moment. But she's also having fun with it. Played straight, the Joseph Kahn-directed video is an unflattering portrait of a woman going nuts, but Swift is smarter than that, and it comes off as a meta commentary. In fact, the video's subsequent disappearance may be the best example of how deft Swift is at controlling what she puts out. wearing stunning gowns, and completely embodying her lyric "darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream." It is, as it's intended to be, hilarious.
Swift's video plays precisely into this. It opens in a fantasy world that's a more grown-up version of the realm on display in Swift's "Love Story" video. But then things turned upon seeing her man, played by male model Sean O'Pry, texting during a picnic date, Swift immediately turns into an incredible stereotype of an unhinged, knife-wielding girlfriend in a perfect, ironic parody of what many must assume is a Swift-ian lifestyle of decadence, glamour, and a little bit of crazy.

Taylor Swift dismisses haters in "Shake it Off"

Taylor Swift has just given fans a lot of news to digest as the singer has just revealed her newest song and the dance-heavy video at the same time for her new haters-gonna-hate anthem, "Shake It Off" during her worldwide Yahoo! Live stream on Monday. "Shake It Off," her bouncy ode to brushing off haters, is the first single off of her upcoming fifth album, "1989," a purely pop collection, Swift described as "my very first documented official pop album," and was inspired by the "bold" risk-taking of late '80s pop, which is due October 27 and named after the year of her birth.
I think it's safe to say that Swift has officially made her transition to pop music. On "Shake It Off," Swift reteams with producers Max Martin and Shellback, but the trio is done toeing the line. The song suggests the world's biggest country star now belongs to a different genre entirely. The completed transition is jarring, but the impeccable straight-up pop stylings make it easy to swallow. As the 24-year-old strikes back at the snark lobbed her way with every award win and rumored romance.
"Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate," she sings, vowing to brush off tabloid takedowns. Defensive? Maybe, but her kicky delivery, especially on the pseudo-rap bridge, makes it sound like she's simply having more fun than her faceless detractors. "Shake It Off," is the new anthem to anyone who's ever been too shy to dance or is the first one on the dance floor, but is made fun of because of their "free spirit shakes." Swift proves why she belongs among pop's queen bees.
The Mark Romanek-directed cinematic masterpiece finds Swift poking fun at her own much-maligned dancing skills in myriad costumes and contexts. As Swift tries to integrate herself into different dance crews from hip-hop dancers, to ballerinas as she tries to find which style of dance is right for her. She hilarious tries to fit in with the different cliques and finds that she ends up having more fun when she's being herself rather than trying to be someone else. In the end she realizes that dancing to the beat of her own drum is what suits her the best. It's all quite slick!

Taylor Swift describes her emotions are "Red"

Taylor Swift is celebrating the Fourth of July by releasing a live performance video for her hit song, "Red," the title track of her mega-selling record breaking 2012 album. The 23-year-old country/pop superstar relies on loads of "Red" tour footage to piece together the four-minute visuals, that fittingly kicks off with Swift backstage huddled in a circle with her crew before showing highlights from her sold-out global trek. The clip pastes together highlights from Swift‘s "Red" Tour, concerts and several awards-show performances. Swift proves she can do no wrong by pulling off the seemingly impossible task of making an entertaining and engaging live video.
"Red" is a 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism that's only tangentially related to Nashville. On "Red," Swift once again shares deeply personal songs that begins and ends on romantically hopeful notes. Aside from acting on the impulse to drive former boyfriends aurally insane, "Red" also shows Swift expanding her musical vocabulary. Her lyrics are less likely to take on a petulant tone; she's less apt to play the victim, more willing to own up to a role as willing participant in relationships, even the ones that aren't healthy. "It was almost like an apprenticeship," she says.
The heartbreak song finds Swift playing with the idea of colors in relation to her emotions about a relationship. Before playing the track, Swift explained: "I wrote this song about the fact that some things are just hard to forget, because the emotions involved with them were so intense and, to me, intense emotion is red." Swift decided to name the this song as her album title, as its lyrics encompass the entire theme of the project. "Thinking about what that means to me and all the different emotions that are written about on this album - they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I've experienced in the last two years, All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion in my mind, all those emotions are red."
In selecting the footage that goes into the final video, Swift chose her favorite moments from her tour, which were so many she can't say if any which one stood out as the highlight. "I'm so excited that the new video for 'Red' comes out this evening! Also very excited about all the red, white, & blue happening tomorrow," Swift tweeted to announce the premiere of the new clip a day before Independence Day. As expected, there were splashes of red, as Swift embraces her inner-rock chick, whipping her golden mane and riffing on the guitar like the lead singer in an '80s hair band with her back-up dancers, but all throughout the video, everywhere the camera pans out, there the crowds are, enjoying the concert.

Taylor Swift debuts "Everything Has Changed"

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are fully return from cynical adults to the wonders of childhood and play princess and knight in the impossibly adorable video for their collaboration single, "Everything Has Changed," the fifth single off Swift's multi-platinum fourth studio album "Red." They showcase miniature doppelgängers building an everlasting friendship and first childhood love at a tender age. "I've been excited about this for a very long time. Now I get to share it with you," Swift tweeted.
"Everything Has Changed" is a country pop song in an acoustic style. The lyrical content explores two lovers finding the things around them changing after they first met. Swift described the track as simply "about falling in love. It's about meeting someone and all of a sudden your entire perspective on the world changes - you're thinking for two, instead of one." She also told MTV News how she transforms her emotions into songs. "When I'm writing a song, I'm so in that zone that it's really sort of a trance I go into and I'm just kind of thinking about what I would say to this person that I'm writing the song about if I could just say whatever I wanted to them right now; that's kind of where I go in my head."
Though Sheeran comes from a folk background and Swift a country one, they serenade each other on this sweet duet about the sudden impact of new romance. Thematically, this is Swift at her most familiar and clichéd, but Sheeran's tender harmonies lend the song some much-needed depth. It is a gorgeous love song that uses simplicity as its prime weapon - it's just the two of them, a vague guitar, and almost distant drums - in order to show that she doesn’t need any extra effects to still write a stirring ballad. Rather, her sense of harmony will do the track just fine.
This has got to be the most adorable thing ever! The super sweet video follows a tall, longhaired little girl goes on the school bus and interacts with a redheaded little boy. It is clear that they are meant to look like miniature versions of Swift and Sheeran. They play together and get adventurous at school and strike up a friendship that sees the pair doing arts and crafts, building forts and experiencing life, as only a child knows how. The climax of the clip is a heart-melting slow dance in an empty gymnasium; just try to resist the urge to sob, even before Swift and Sheeran show up as their parents at the end.

Tim McGraw has revealed "Highway Don't Care"

Tim McGraw finally revealed his saddest video ever for his latest colossal country superstar collaboration single, "Highway Don't Care," a duet with his labelmate Taylor Swift and featuring Keith Urban on guitar, is the third single from the 46-year-old Country crooner and actor's new album, "Two Lanes of Freedom," which impacted on February 5th, serves as the singer's highly-anticipated debut Big Machine Records release. The track is arguably one of the best collaborations of the decade, maybe even ever.
"Highway Don't Care," a cautionary tale about the dangers of texting and driving, was co-penned by country music's loved one-time-duo, The Warren Brothers who explains: "The cool thing about that song is that the part we wrote for the girl, she is just the voice on the radio." It's about the person you're singing about in the song or singing to in the song is driving down the road. The tune is a mid-tempo ballad where the male narrator is driving his car, and is separated from his lover who is also driving. Lyrically, the song is a take on freedom tinged with regret. Throughout the verses, he tells her what he "bets" she is feeling, when a song comes on the radio.
A new emotional climax is a roller coaster of emotions that reached each time the arrangement slows down for Swift to deliver the almost haunting "I can't live without you, baby." From there Urban introduces the chorus by way of a few passionate pulls at his guitar strings. Suddenly, the air guitar is cool again. Urban's solo at the bridge and slowly and satisfyingly brings us back down to Earth with the relatively gentle sounds of McGraw and Swift's harmonies. These two are a wonderful vocal match. There's no sense of one being underutilized to benefit the other, or one being no match for the other's talents. It's her song as much as it is his, with Urban playing more than a complementary roll.
This such a hauntingly brilliant song accompanied by an absolutely soul-crushing video, directed by Shane Drake, and it features a series of dramatic footage and marks yet another addition to the Car Crash Video genre. It begins with McGraw singing in the middle of a lonely road outside of Nashville on a cold, foggy morning by a river, telling the story of a young girl who jumps into her car all upset, not paying attention to the road while she's driving. She can see Swift singing the chorus in her rear view mirror as she drives. The gut-wrenching sob story about an ill-fated lovers contains Public Service Announcement-esque levels of melodrama, but it is pretty effective! Watch it and remember how precious life is.

Taylor Swift enjoys her girls night for being "22"

The "happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way" Taylor Swift tells fans what it's like to be "22" in the world premiere of her latest sunny, uplifting, fun-loving and carefree video off her 5 million plus-selling and chart-topping album "Red." The now 23-year-old seven-time GRAMMY winner premiered the video exclusively on 'Good Morning America' on Wednesday (March 13) in honor of her favorite number 13, and in celebration of her Red Tour kicking off that same day.
Swift's most blatantly pop song off her career, "22," the third cut from album, is all about trying to "forget about the deadlines" and embraces only the most sugary hooks available. Underneath the heel-clicking positivity and shiny production sits the line "We're happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way," a rather stunning meditation on being in your early 20s that's flicked off like a piece of pre-chorus lint. The thunderous pop track kicking off with an acoustic guitar, but quickly escalates into a fun anthem for sleepover parties. Even when she's having fun, Swift, the diary of a normal girl, is succinctly communicating conflicting emotion.
Swift sings of the conflicted emotions of being aged 22, as she told Billboard magazine: "For me, being 22 has been my favorite year of my life. I like all the possibilities of how you're still learning, but you know enough. You still know nothing, but you know that you know nothing. You're old enough to start planning your life, but you're young enough to know there are so many unanswered questions. That brings about a carefree feeling that is sort of based on indecision and fear and at the same time letting loose. Being 22 has taught me so much." The ins and outs of the pop star's love life have been no secret through her lyrics but who could the blond beauty be referring to in this ballad?
In the Anthony Mandler-directed video, Swift sports a 'Not a lot going on at the moment' T-shirt and chilling with her actual real-life best friends at home eating birthday cake leftovers before going out for a day (and night) of fun at the Zuma beach in Malibu, and playing on the trampoline. The females then return home to get pretty and ready to host a celebration at their place that tens and tens of people will attend. Swift dances like there's no tomorrow, throws confetti on the air and jumps backwards into a pool with her party clothes on in the finale.

Taylor Swift unveiled "I Knew You Were Trouble"

To celebrate her 23rd birthday, Taylor Swift unveiled her 23rd video on MTV channel to show the world her edgy side for the loopy break-up upbeat track, "I Knew You Were Trouble," the third promotional single from the Country-Pop songstress latest fourth studio album, "Red," which has already achieved multi-platinum status since it was released in October. The track offers more insight into her relationship with the bad boy, and the clip features a pink-haired Swift trying to pick up the pieces after bad boy has left her.
Inspired by the British band One Direction member Harry Styles, the dubstep-inspired bass breakdown "I Knew You Were Trouble," breaks the singer out of Nashville and touches on all genres of music with moments of straight-up Top 40 pop, country and even dance, with its grinding effects, especially on the bumping chorus. It's a peppy, uber-catchy pop, a far cry from traditional country, and its mainstream appeal yet noted Swift's experimentation with dubstep as relatively limited. Swift is try at dropping the bass ultimately gets absorbed into the artist's own aesthetic.
Musically, the way the song bounces around musical genres, was one of Swift's intentions. Speaking the song "is about not trusting your own instincts and ignoring all the red flags." Swift admitted to having gone into a relationship knowing it was the wrong thing to do. "It's a song that's one of my favorite songs on the album because it sounds just as chaotic as the feeling was when I wrote it. It's a song about kind of being frustrated with yourself because you have your heart broken and you knew when you first saw that person you saw all these red flags and you just went for it anyway," she explained. "So, shame on me."
Filmed in Los Angeles by Anthony Mandler, the dark-themed clip is looking distinctively different from the country music sweetheart's previous music videos. It find grimy-looking Swift either passed out or sleeping on the ground in the middle of a field covered with trash, likely after a party. She looks around her, confused and incredulous at where she has landed. She slowly stands up as black and white clips of her fans cheering at a concert cuts in and out. The edgy video then follows her really toxic relationship with 'Spider-Man' star Reeve Carney as her co-star, and it definitely delves depths she's never explored before.

Taylor Swift Finds New Love in "Begin Again"

Taylor Swift's newest romantic video for her post-break-up song, "Begin Again," was leaked earlier on GAC-TV and Telly on Tuesday, the same day her newly released fourth studio album, "Red," which is raw, emotional and continues her trademark style of writing honest songs about love, significant and kind of damaging relationships. The 22-year-old seems more confident now about her huge ambition and success, although she remains typically self-deprecating about her romantic life. "It's gonna be, like, a love letter to Paris," Swift told MTV News about the new clip.
Swift often comes under some heat for her lyrics, which can sometimes veer into the junior notebook doodle arena, but the girl is growing up. In an ode to a new romance, Swift paints a vivid picture of a first date following a rough breakup in "Begin Again," and she sounds like a young woman. The country-tinged, soft ballad chronicles the start of a new relationship - one that comes eight months after a breakup which Swift says left her feeling like "all love ever does is break and burn and end."
The male subject of the tune remains a mystery, the song, a well-crafted love story, finds the Country-Pop star singing about a girl embarking on a first date after getting over a bad relationship. The new guy turns out to have a lot of qualities that her ex didn't have. She explained: "It's actually a song about when you've gotten through a really bad relationship and you finally dust yourself off and go on that first date after a horrible break up. And the vulnerability that goes along with all of that."
Perfectly suit the lyrics, the new clip is a sweet, vintage video shot in Paris, and sees Swift turned plenty of heads as she pedaled on her vintage bike around the French capital in a retro skirt and blouse and oversized red sunglasses. The change of clothes leads to a change in mood for this artistic video, which Swift finds herself going from mopey and melancholy, to hopeful and optimistic about love's possibilities, when the country music beauty sitting alone in a cafe before a well-suited guy walks towards her. The scenery and flow of the video is fantastic, but we should expect nothing less from Swift who knowing how to keep her core audience happy, and that is exactly what "Begin Again" accomplishes.

Taylor Swift | "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

Taylor Swift throws a dance party in just-released video for her latest breakup gossipy hit, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," the first radio single off of Swift's upcoming fourth studio album, "Red," which relates to the intensity of her emotions during a series of failed relationships that were often very public. "All those emotions," she said, "spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between; there is nothing beige about any of those feelings."
Swift's finest songs are flawless in their construction and showcase her effortless, preternatural mastery of pop conventions. Inspired by an incident, the empowering kiss-off to an ex, is a pop song with bubblegum pop influences while the lyrics depict Swift's frustration at an ex-lover who wants to re-kindle their relationship. Swift told fans worldwide in a web-chat that the scornful yet fun song is about one of her former beaus and is what she refers to, in jest, as "a really romantic song, touching and sensitive to my lovely ex-boyfriend."
With its thumping kick drum, clipped syncopation, and mildly snarky lyrics, it's a teen dream in the vein of Swift's other sing-along jams like "Love Story" or "You Belong with Me," the guitar-based country-pop has anthemic in a slick pop way, rather than her usual modern country way. The track sounds like a brighter, more-polished Avril Lavigne tune, with an undeniable, instantly catchy hook in typical Swift fashion. It's such a welcome departure and a bread-and-butter breakup song, only without the hope of a story-book ending.
Swift, looks like so happy she's "Never Ever Getting Back Together" with one of her exes that she's having a blast dancing party exuberantly along with a group of friends in the Declan Whitebloom-directed clip. There is a capricious, childlike quality to the clip, and the 22-year-old superstar clad in a vintage-inspired, daisy-printed, squirrel-print pajamas and bright red lipstick, which only emphasizes her smile and how thrilled she is to have kicked her ex to the curb. So while it may seem that with her defiant new single, Swift may be venturing into more mature territory, her latest video should assuage her fans' fears.

B.o.B and Taylor Swift Debut "Both Of Us"

Southern rhymer B.o.B and country-pop songbird Taylor Swift unite on the new video set for "Both of Us," the third single lifted off rapper's sophomore album, "Strange Clouds." The video is a tribute to the hard-working everyperson. In fact, the video doesn't focus on the superstar duo for too long, as it cuts to scenes of every day people, from all walks of life, living their day-to-day lives.
The track finds the rapper identifying with underdogs, as he rhymes about battling pain and hardships in life. While the 23-year-ol rhymer is roaming the streets and spitting his lines, the country music beauty is playing with a dog in a field of flowers. On how the duet project came about, he recently shared that Swift "came to Atlanta and she hit up Grand Hustle. I wasn't there. Tip was there, and I eventually linked with her in Dallas, and the rest is history."
The Jake Nava-directed clip was filmed in Nashville, and it opens with B.o.B hanging out in his modest home, while Swift is chilling out in the most un-Taylor Swift spot in music video history, a pool hall. As the video closes out, viewers are left with a sort of fantasy, with B.o.B and Swift re-imagined as the everyman and everywoman living simple lives in rural Tennessee, much like the folks in the video. This video instead sheds light on the grittier sides of the country music capital, following the lyrics of the track, which center on adversity and strife.
The video isn't glamorous, but it leaves viewers appreciating the little things in life. It's not about money, it's about understanding that sometimes a romp through a sprinkler or a good game of billiards is enough to take you away from the mundane moments of everyday life. The twosome just want to make sure that this summer, you take the time to appreciate the little things in life, like running through sprinklers and playing a good game of pool or if you're feeling as adventurous as Swift, jumping into a pool.

Taylor Swift Gets Moody In "Safe & Sound"

Taylor Swift has unveiled a melancholy new video on MTV last night for her melancholy acoustic ballad new song "Safe & Sound," featuring country/folk duo The Civil Wars, and the lead promotional single, from the soundtrack of the upcoming movie adaptation of "The Hunger Games." The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where teenage boys and girls fight to the death in an annual televised event and is based on Suzanne Collins' young-adult novel of the same title, arrives in theaters on March 23.
The 22-year-old not only won two Grammy awards, both for "Mean," Sunday night, but she also performed her single "Mean" flawlessly. "Safe & Sound" certainly captures the tone of The Hunger Games, which will be filled with the sort of dread that only an uninviting stretch of woods can provide. It's a relief that Swift didn't take the "Mean" route and equate being hunted for the bloodlust of a ruling class to being picked on by internet trolls. Their spare, haunting tune is the kind of song that demands a video full of fireside glow and American Gothic overtones.
Luckily, that's exactly what the clip is - with glum vibes, and seems to have a stark, gloomy, and pensive feel, is an obvious reflection of the 'Hunger Games' setting and plot, which finds adolescents being used as pawns in a sick and twisted battle to the death. It features the country-singing cutie walking through a deserted desolate forest and singing the track, while the clip also shows a split second of The Civil Wars' John Paul White and Joy Williams strumming instruments with the duo being illuminated in a fiery red light from a fire playing on their faces.
The video shows Swift looking very natural with her hair down and not overly styled, looks a bit lost as she wanders a gorgeously-rendered wasteland full of spooky abandoned wells and ungulates who turn to ash through the barren winter woods, Swift looks almost hesitant, walking among leafless brown trees and crunched leaves. She's wearing a cream-colored lace dress without makeup and donning a flowy white gown that makes her look like she's from another time, and it's beautiful yet strikingly simple. She almost looks like a deserted angel in search of a loved one or some sign of life.

Taylor Swift Survives One Boring Day In "Ours"

Taylor Swift has one boring day at work but ends in the best way possible in the video for the country songbird's latest single, "Ours," and it's a thoroughly adorable clip that fits perfectly among Swift's other crushingly cute videos. The 2011 Billboard Woman of the Year honoree survives the day only because she's looking forward to coming home and welcoming back her "distant love," who happened to be away serving in the military.
The tune serves as the sixth offering from her multiplatinum-selling album "Speak Now," "Ours" was solely written by Swift as a love letter and as being in love and knowing that they can make it through the rough times. The song finds Swift in a relationship of which others do not approve. She reassures her beau that despite the criticism they are getting, she loves him. It's a pretty, slower tempo song that showcases Swift's strengths, which are her inviting, open journal lyrics and that sweet voice. Swift saved the best for last.
Directed by Declan Whitebloom, the video features the soon-to-be 22-year-old out of princess mode, plays herself as a bored corporate drone sleepwalking through an average day: awkwardly riding the elevator, and dealing with the average frustrations like an out-of-order copy machine and cliquey girls in the break room, until she's reminded that there's always a special someone she can count on. Admittedly, she looks more flawless and glowing than any office worker we've ever seen, but we'll cut her a break.
Everything that can go wrong does. It's not her day, nor is it her life. Throughout the clip, the only thing keeping Swift sane is dreaming about her absent boyfriend, who makes a return by the song's end. "I had a very definitive idea of what I wanted this video to be," Swift told E! News. The overarching theme of the "Ours" video is that deep down, we're all looking to connect with people, be it on the surface, in a fleeting moment or something deeper. It makes you think about engaging in conversation with that guy you ignore in the elevator every morning or making eye contact with that person on the bus and sharing a smile. It's a really lovely, little video that captures the nice nature of the song. It’s those quiet ones you have to watch.

Taylor Swift Lights Up The Night In "Sparks Fly"

There's a reason this blond beauty was named ACM Entertainer of the Year. She puts on one heck of a show! Taylor Swift's new "Sparks Fly" video would be rather hum-drum if one didn't know the footage was captured from four dates on her 'Speak Now' Tour, which just surpassed Paul McCartney's summer tour for most tickets sold. The magic and theatrics she's able to capture on stage rival what almost anyone else is able to dream up for a more Hollywood-like "produced" music video, and and you might be in it!
This is the oldest song on "Speak Now" and Swift first performed the song live back in 2008. The chorus remains the same since its original outing, but some of the verses have been changed. Swift sings in this song of an attraction to a guy who is "a bad idea." She explained the lyrics on her website: "'Sparks Fly' is about falling for someone who you maybe shouldn't fall for, but you can't stop yourself because there's such a connection and chemistry. This is a song I wrote a few years ago and I have been working on it ever since. It's been awesome to see it change over the years. The fans have heard it before in concert, but there have been some really cool changes that I am very proud of."
Capturing the essence of a live show normally isn't a tall task for an artist. A Swift concert is more Broadway production than typical country concert, however. The 21-yesr-old the singer is giving millions of loyal fans a front-row seat to her show. One imagines this video's editor pulling his hair out at the roots trying to deciding what footage should be left on the cutting room floor. It seems like there is enough going on to justify a two-hour television event. Sadly we only get four minutes, a montage of explosive highlights from her international tour.
Much like the video is a thank-you letter to her fans, the tour also served as a way for Swift to show some love to her loyal followers. The country music cutie gives her devotees a tour experience in the clip by compiling footage from her ongoing traveling show across the US. The Christian Lamb-directed video perfectly encapsulates the tour's high-octane energy including theatrical set changes, dancers, aerialists, fireworks, pyrotechnics, costume changes and the occasional rainstorm. Still, all eyes are on Swift who is strutting her stuff, wiping her blonde hair and twirling around the stage in high spirit.

Taylor Swift Debuts "The Story of Us" Video

Country queen Taylor Swift heads to the Ivy League in her brand new "The Story of Us" video premiered Tuesday night on MTV, just before participating in a live chat with her fans. The song was the last song from her latest album, "Speak Now." Swift composed the track regarding the time when she encountered an ex at the awards-show. "I just felt so empty, like we were both fighting this silent war of pretending we didn't care that the other was there. And I went home, and I wrote this song about it. And at that point, I had this gut feeling, and I knew the album was finished."
The Noble Jones-directed video in which Swift reminisces about a college relationship. it begins as Swift opens 'The Story of Us' book to Chapter 1 and starts in on a tale about love lost. In the first few takes, a geeky, nerd-chic Swift and her love interest are wrapped in each other's every move, totally lusting in the Vanderbilt library. But as relationships often do, theirs quickly goes downhill. A very distressed Swift sings about the pain she feels as the pair tries to pretend not to notice each other in the same crowded study room, while she tugs at her hair and screams out the lyrics to her life among the books. The broken couple's fellow students have no idea that a life story is unfolding around them. While it depicts a love story, as many of Swift's song/video combos do, "The Story of Us" video sets a more somber mood with a mature Swift and less bright colors.
After the premiere of her "The Story of Us" video, the 21-year-old country/pop superstar opened up to MTV News about her creative process behind writing the tune, and how it felt to watch the video and relive the emotions behind the "Speak Now" song, which was inspired by a seriously awkward awards-show encounter with an ex. "Anytime I'm onstage or watching the music video, the first thing that comes into my mind is the person I wrote the song about," she said. "It's like the first thing that you think of is the moment that inspired the song, which is that excruciating, awful moment when you run into an ex for the first time."
Since the very beginning of her career, Swift has always played the ingenue; she is eternally innocent, endearingly wholesome, even when she has been epically wronged. And so, not surprisingly, her music videos have largely reflected that: Swift as the chaste, credulous creature forced to come to terms with those who have hurt her, usually heartbreakingly so. But Swift has also grown as an artist and her recent videos have mirrored that maturation. And her new video "The Story of Us," continues the themes of both her early days and her more recent work. It is, of course, a love story, but there's a complexity to it too. It's her Music Video Evolution, a voyage that's taken her from wide-eyed country girl to equally wide-eyed international sensation and, fittingly, back again. She is, of course, always the ingenue.

Taylor Swift Braves The Bullies In "Mean" Video

Taylor Swift just released her brand new music video for her up-beat song "Mean." The song contains heavy elements of fiddles and banjos, with critics saying that it was the most country song on her latest third album,"Speak Now." Although "Mean," brilliantly calls out someone who cruelly points out her flaws, the Grammy-winning superstar wrote the song to get back at her critics: "Some days I'm fine and I can just brush it off and go about my day, but some days it absolutely levels me. All I can do is continue to try to work hard every single day and feel everything. I think it's important to feel things because I then write songs about that."
"The whole idea of being criticized and the fact that that entered my life made for a song that I'm very proud of on the record called 'Mean,'" Swift continues. "There's always going to be someone who's just mean to you. Dealing with that is all you can control about that situation, how you handle it. 'Mean' is about how I handle it, and sort of my mind set about this whole situation." This twangy track finds the young country songstress taking aim at her critics, and in the video, we find Swift in all her glory as a damsel in distress.
Declan Whitebloom directed, while Swift herself drew up the concept, the new video was shot over two days in Los Angeles, with the Orpheum Theatre serving as its backdrop. It opens with Swift and her band in the theater. She plays the banjo, and they're all dressed in vintage-inspired clothes and the stage is set up like a front yard of a farmhouse. The video cuts to a boy reading a fashion magazine in a locker room being bullied by the football team, and is then back on that stage, where Swift is dressed in a little white '20s-style dress and is being tied to the tracks by an old-timey villain.
But Swift and the others are hardly the only victims in the clip. Viewers are back in modern time, where a girl, wearing a fast-food uniform, is being made fun of by her peers. Another girl is being teased in school and can't sit with "the cool girls" at lunch and is forced to eat in the school bathroom. All the while, Swift is plucking away at her banjo. Her words are empowering the young people affected by their bullies. The 21-year-old's new video for "Mean" is the latest entry in an avalanche of empowering clips, which we've seen from artists like Katy Perry ("Firework") and Pink ("Raise Your Glass").

Taylor Swift explains apology 'Back to December'

Bring on the snow machine and the forlorn looks sent out of frosty windows. Taylor Swift is quietly rolling out her pensive "Back to December" new video Thursday morning for her heartbreaking apology song "Back to December," which tells the story of two lovelorn teens on a wintry day and has graced us with its presence. She takes the "December" mention seriously, as snowflakes fall from inside her home. Though she hasn't said who the song is about, but it certainly sheds light on the level of regret she has for pushing him away, and did admit to being careless in the relationship. The promo projects a mood of darkness, regret and melancholy.
The track, is considered an orchestral country pop ballad and its expressive lyrics are a remorseful plea for forgiveness for breaking up with a former lover, was written solely by Swift as the second single off her latest chart-topping third album, "Speak Now." Swift has elaborated on the painful feelings that went into her new song, "Back to December" is the first time she ever apologizes to someone in a song, something that she never did before. She admitted the song is dedicated to an actual person to whom she had done wrong: "It addresses a first for me in that I've never apologized in song. The person I wrote this song about deserves this. This is about a person who was incredible to me, just perfect to me in a relationship, and I was really careless with him."
In this dreamy and emotional video, the 21-year-old country princess trades glamor for a seemingly makeup-free, casual look that enhances the sheer honesty of the tune. The video shows the pop star singing about her lost love with a mood of melancholy and regret: Swift in tank top and a ribbed cardigan made of sad, wandering the rooms of a sparely furnished house and mourning the love she let go, her misery manifesting as indoor snowflakes of the mind. The singer belts out the lyrics as her lost love walks a wintry landscape. "This is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you, saying I'm sorry for that night. I go back to December all the time," she sings.
The beautifully wintry and romantic video was directed by Yoann Lemoine, who did Katy Perry's equally dreamy, equally girly clip for "Teenage Dream." The new clip joins her pantheon of modern classics, as while it skimps a bit on narrative, it makes up for it with an almost haunting visual sense. MTV described the video as a bummer, writing it "isn't just about a girl with her calendar permanently stuck on the twelfth month of the year. It's not just about feeling like a Lady Antebellum song. It's about getting stuck in a place of romantic regret." Meanwhile, the video ends with Swift in her snowy home while the ex-boyfriend finds her breakup letter in his coat pocket as he sits alone in the bleachers. Watch it below!

Taylor Swift' "Mine" Has Another Teenage Dream

The country pop star Taylor Swift has just premiered highly-anticipated music video "Mine" on Friday in Kennebunkport, Maine where the video was shot last month and offer a look at the quaint towns in addition to offering her personal insight on how her latest music video comes to life. Swift left a message on her Facebook and Twitter pages Friday afternoon saying she played Frisbee on a Maine beach Friday morning and that she would be at St. Ann's church by 6 p.m. The church is attended by former President George H.W. Bush's family. Watch Swift spin through the forest of memories of her latest relationship after the jump.
"Mine" is the lead single from the Grammy winner's upcoming third album "Speak Now" which is slated for October 25 release. Unlike with her past two albums, Swift wrote all of its material by herself. The self-penned song is all about the wonders of being in a happy relationship after surviving a rocky past. It talks about one of Swift's old crushes. "It's a song that is about ... my tendency to run from love." She added that every relationship she has been in "has ended in goodbye, has ended in breakups," and that "Mine" is "sort of about finding the exception to that." She told MTV, "The song is about what it would be like if I actually let my guard down." The uptempo song that's unmistakably Swift, showed growth, maturity and has a big chorus that will stick in your brain. Without straying too far from typical Swift subject matter, the song features an uplifting country/pop melody and a big chorus. It fit well into her own musical niche.
The 20-year-old country cutie teamed up with director Roman White for the third time, to tell the story of a couple moving through life together. "The video was completed and insanely great," White said that "you never really know what a piece is going to look like in the end, but when we were shooting this video everything was just perfect and you just had a feeling that it was all going to fall in to place perfectly...as it did." The video shows Swift being deeply troubled by the relationship of her parents. She meets a guy, played by British actor Toby Hemingway and falls in love with him, and ends with them eventually marrying, having children, and wind up happily ever after. Just like a "fairy tale." Swift also chose her longtime friend and look-alike Jaqueline to play the younger version of herself in the video.
Swift became one of country's brightest and youngest faces in 2006, when the 16-year-old released her first album. Stepping off Music Row and into the small but stylish lobby of Big Machine Records, a visitor quickly realizes it's not just the walls that reveal the story of 'Swift's meteoric rise to stardom. Even the floors have a tale to tell. Of course, that one-word title is a part of pop-and-country culture now. It's been spotted at the top spot of charts around the world, entered into record books, and engraved on dozens of plaques and awards. But at one point this extraordinary collection of songs had a name. And the artist who put her heart, soul and talent into that music knew it needed to be something special. In the end, Swift decided on the single word that captures perfectly her journey to this moment. FEARLESS!

John Mayer Confesses To Being Half of My Heart

PEOPLE has the exclusive premiere of John Mayer's "Half Of My Heart" official music video, where a tux-clad Mayer sings and strums about not being able to "stop loving you with half of my heart" after apparently leaving his bride at the altar. "Half of My Heart" is third single taken from his "Battle Studies" album released in 2009 and was certified gold in the US. This song, in which Mayer confesses to being half-hearted in a relationship, is a collaboration with Country-Pop star Taylor Swift, but she does not appear in the video. Mayer seems to be back to his playboy-lover image.
"Half of My Heart" features more of a pop rock sound than Mayer's previous music. His previous albums explored blues and acoustic rock, especially in his 2006 album "Continuum." It also has a carefree, sing-along sound to it. Mayer told MTV News that the idea for the song came to Mayer in a dream. "I woke up with the song in my head called 'Half of My Heart,'" he recalled. "And the idea is that it's this real sort of updated — not that it needs to be updated — sort of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks thing."
The lyrics of the song are sung by both Mayer and Swift; Swift sings with Mayer in the chorus and in the song's bridge. The lyrics are about the duo, with half of their hearts saying they should continue to love each other, although the other half says they are not each other's true love, and cannot keep loving each other. Mayer "tweeted" about wanting to record the song with Swift in March 2009: "Waking up to this song idea that won't leave my head. 3 days straight now. That means it's good enough to finish," he wrote "It's called 'Half of My Heart' and I want to sing it with Taylor Swift. She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in contrast to my Tom Petty of a song."
In an interview shown on television called Mayer: On the Record with Fuse (which only aired on the Fuse channel), Mayer's interviewer asked why the singer chose Swift to duet with, since she was only nineteen years old, and Mayer was 32. He responded by saying that he was not putting her on the album just to sell more copies for die-hard fans of Taylor Swift that might just get the album for that song.

Taylor Swift Shares Life In Her "Fearless" Video

If there is any artist out there right now owing their fans a big thank you, it's country-pop darling and this year's Grammys queen Taylor Swift. The young star has had an incredible ride with her latest Multi-Platinum sophomore album, the chart-topping "Fearless." She's currently working on the set's follow-up but before things completely die down with this project, she dropped a brand new music video on CMT for the album's title track.
The Todd Cassety directed video plays out like a video journal/documentary, showcasing a collection of performance and backstage footage from Country princess's wildly successful 2009 Fearless Tour across the world. It really shows off her passion for her fans and how connected she is to them. Swift loves her fans, and she always makes sure to give props to those who have helped make her the award-winning superstar she is today. So it seems fitting that when she put together the video for her song "Fearless," she made sure to give her fans a front-row seat and an inside view of pop star's life on the road and what Swift says is the best experience of her entire life. The video captures that attitude and the experience of what she brings to her fans each and every night she steps onstage. She's definitely been the source of some unforgettable moments and wonderful experiences. Although the song is a love letter to the perfect first date, the video is really Swift's love letter to her fans. It ends with the singer waving goodbye to them as she makes her way off the stage.
The 20-year-old explained earlier the song is about "the fearlessness of falling in love". She wrote on her label's website, "No matter how many break up songs you write, no matter how many times you get hurt, you will always fall in love again. When I wrote 'Fearless,' I wasn't dating anyone. I wasn't even in the beginning stages of dating anybody. I really was all by myself out on tour and I got this idea for a song about the best first date. I think sometimes when you're writing love songs, you don't write them about what you're going through at the moment, you write about what you wish you had. So, this song is about the best first date I haven't had yet." She told MTV News "I really thought about what that word ['fearless'] means to me, and I guess, to me, fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."
Although her Grammy performance has been widely criticized, Swift really does know how to put on a great live show, and need some convincing. Although she sings of being bold and brave when it comes to finding a sweetheart, this young woman has proven she's fearless in more than just love. She's also a road warrior. With all of her colossal and exhilarating success, no wonder she's telling herself, "I don't know how it gets better than this." It feels like every artist under the sun eventually slaps together a lazy candid-backstage-and-performance clip job video instead of coming up with a clever new concept, but at least Swift has great timing: she's about to embark on a huge U.S. arena tour, and this video may send her fans straight to Ticketmaster to nab tix to her live show.