Taylor Swift just made a fan’s whole life! With a single comment! Ha!
23.04.2024 - 10:35 / variety.com
Alex Ritman Back in 2008, a music video landed on YouTube — then still largely in its infancy and mostly dominated by amateur video footage — and caused a bit of a stir, amassing a cult following and 1 million views. More than 15 years on, the video has morphed — extremely slowly — into a full-length feature film.
Chris Dane Owens‘ upbeat love song “Shine on Me” was already a catchy slice of rock with some heavy ’80s inspirations. But it was the epic accompanying video — which he made for $70,000, no small sum in today’s music video world — that proved to be the real hit, largely for squeezing into its four minutes practically every clichéd trope and inspiration from popular swords-and-sorcery fantasy entertainment.
“The Princess Bride” features prominently, but then there are elements of “Xena,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Dungeons and Dragons” and many, many more. Among a (snow-topped, possibly volcanic) mountain of gloriously cheesy visuals — most made using green screen with the help of “Beetlejuice” and “E.T.” effects legend Robert Short — are long-haired heroes (including Owens himself) on horseback, bodice-wearing fair maidens, slow-motion swordfights, evil witches witching in trios, good witches floating around in trios, fire-breathing dragons, frost-covered ice kingdoms, magic glowing books, exploding pirate ships, plenty of capes, some sort of regal ball, a villain in a Dr.
Doom-style mask and a whole load of lush green scenery porn. If anyone ever asked the question, “What if INXS was really into ‘Game of Thrones’?” this video surely had the answer.
Taylor Swift just made a fan’s whole life! With a single comment! Ha!
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Taylor Swift has officially dropped her first music video off of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”The 34-year-old musician released her new music overnight Friday, with a second batch of songs at 2 a.m., making it a surprise double album.The track features Post Malone and is rumored to be about Matty Healy, as “Fortnight” means a two-week span. She briefly dated the 1975 frontman following her split from Joe Alwyn after six years.“I was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me/I was a functioning alcoholic ‘til nobody noticed my new aesthetic,” she sings.“All of this to say I hope you’re OK, but you’re the reason/And no one here’s to blame but what about your quiet treason,” she goes on.
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Taylor Swift has shared a new video for ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, and revealed one of the lyrics from the album.The pop icon is set to release her 11th studio record later this week (Friday, April 19) – the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-winning ‘Midnights’.Now in the build-up to the LP being released, the singer has dropped a short animated video on Instagram, full to the brim with Easter eggs about the release.Shared last night (April 16), the clip begins on a clock pointed at two o’clock. This marks the latest of clues that Swift has shared that contain a nod to that time.