wildest dreams.

a good song is like a good book; you get lost in it, you don’t want it to end, you can listen to it on repeat like you’d re-read an old favorite. it usually gives you #allthefeels and gets stuck in your head for hours on end.

and like when a book you adore gets turned into a movie that you abhor (I really just did that for the rhyme) sometimes the music video can really kill a song that you’ve come to love.

yes, i am thinking of a specific song here, thanks for asking.

it’s taylor swift’s, wildest dreams. i know, i know, i wrote a post pre-1989 being released about taylor’s seeming demise into terrible lyrics and cookie cutter pop (and i still stand by that for songs like shake it off) but i am going to be honest here, i really like a lot of the other songs on that record. it’s got some smart writing and incredible hooks. i need to just get over the fact that taylor is living my life and give the girl her due.

anyway, i’ve had wildest dreams on loop and had heard that the music video for it was fantastic. i finally took 4 minutes and watched it. if you haven’t seen it yet: go watch it here so i don’t spoil anything for you and so you know what i’m talking about.

obviously she has money so it’s well done and everyone is all about scott eastwood (yeah that guy is clint eastwood’s son so let’s just call that being born lucky) so he’s a win and the concept of it being a movie set fits well with the story arc of the song but i just was not into it. it wasn’t even the fact that her hair looked really fake, i just had a different picture painted in my head and they didn’t match up.  at all.

i’m not entirely sure what i had pictured. maybe a clichéd love story of a couple getting together. or vignettes of people living out their wildest dreams with real footage of people climbing mountains and adopting babies and live shots from taylor’s shows. or maybe a group of friends growing up together and the inevitable change in friendship as life happens. none of those follow the song nearly as well as her video actually does but that’s how i feel. and my feelings are valid, okay?

now every time i hear the song (which is at least once on my drive to work and once on my way home and i don't exactly have a long commute) i picture taylor in what i assume is supposed to be africa making out with eastwood jr and frankly i don't care to see taylor swift making out with anyone. 

so maybe the buggles didn't lie, video killed the radio star. 

xo