FAVORITE TAYLOR MOMENTS / ∞
Anonymous asked:
One thing I did notice about Ophelia music video. the first verse is very red, she gets onto the boat, and gets bluer, dives into the water, does her dance, gets in the shipwreck and then gets pulled up. The boxes behind her in the ship have the letters of the songs on Showgirl.
Not sure if anybody noticed it.
The colour scheme of the Ophelia music video is fascinating to me.
likeadevils answered:
YES YES YES
I’m so fascinated because the song is ping pong between a lot of fire imagery (you light the match to watch it blow, you lit my sky up, pulling me into the fire) and water imagery (drowned in the melancholy, the fate of ophelia, no longer drowning and deceived). AND the fire imagery translates into red scenes and the water into blue multiple times!!
- light the match to watch it blow -> the marilyn scene
- you lit my sky up -> 60s girl group scene
- the fate of ophelia -> boat play
the really interesting exception is “pulling me into the fire” lining up with her being shoved into the water (alongside “you wrap around me like a chain, a crown, a vine” being acted out by people who are trying to kill her). and as the visuals split from the lyrics, her story splits from ophelia’s— she is being saved where ophelia was driven to death.
there's such a generosity of spirit and fullness of heart that permeates everything taylor does and when you get a good hit of it like in this documentary it's just like. yeah this is why i signed my life away to a blonde girl in a princess dress singing about romeo and juliet. and i'd do it again and again and she's never getting rid of me
taylor's analogy of being the pilot on stage and not wanting to let anyone in the crowd sense her fear because if she's worried about the turbulence then panic will ensue, and its not only her job to land the plane safely but also to manage the emotional reaction of all the passengers really fucked me up in such a way that i will be processing for a very long time













