Taylor Swift debuts ‘Out of the Woods’ music video on NYE: fun or silly?

Are we in the clear yet? #OOTWMusicVideo Premiering at approximately 10:51pm EST on ABC

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As we all know, Taylor Swift’s 1989 has many thinly veiled blind-item songs about her months-long, on-and-off thing with Harry Styles. When the album first came out, I remember in-the-know Swiftloonies saying that “Out of the Woods” was one of the most obvious ones, with several lyrical callbacks to her relationship with Styles. So… even though Swifty is happy with Calvin Harris now (and stockpiling references about him which will go on her next album), she’s still dealing with Styles in various ways. So while One Direction performed on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Swifty made sure that the night was also about her. She debuted her new video for “Out of the Woods” on the show, without even having to show up in person.

“Out of the Woods” is the music video she filmed in New Zealand in November. There was a controversy because Taylor’s film crew was massive, and the beach they were using has strict limitations as to the allowed vehicles, which is why “Swifty hates endangered Dotterels” is a thing. Anyway, here’s the video (which probably killed some endangered Dotterels).

I complain about this every time we talk about Taylor’s music videos, but she is such a bad actress. Really, really bad. I dislike her styling here too, and the CGI wolves are meh. But I appreciate that they spent some serious money on this, and everything looks fine. I’m sure if I was a 12-year-old Swiftloonie, I would love this. And that’s the target audience, isn’t it?

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