I’m starting to get concerned. What if Taylor Swift does release a bunch of new stuff on Friday and everyone completely freaks out and Tay really does eclipse everything, even important sh-t that we need to pay attention to? God. I hope, hope, hope that she’s smart and releases her new sh-t at, like, 12:01 am on Friday and lets the newscycle take the whole day to process it. I’m so tired of all of this sh-t breaking on Friday afternoon and Friday evening. Have you noticed that? It happens all the time this year, mostly with political stories – something huge happens around 2-6 pm on Fridays like f–king clockwork. Anyway, Taylor is still teasing her snake stuff. She posted this on Tuesday:
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 22, 2017
The first video, posted on Monday, was released at 11 am on the dot. This one was released on 11:02 am. Will today’s snake p0rn be released at 11:04? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?? And yes, I’m well aware that this is not a real snake. Taylor didn’t, like, hire a snake to slither around like her spirit animal. This is some weird CGI snake. My first thought when I saw this video was, “Oh, the CGI snake is coiling… what does that mean?!?!” I’m sure Tay thinks she’s being hella symbolic. Until we get a music video where she morphs into a white, blonde CGI snake, I remain unmoved.
What else? Us Weekly has all the info on Snake Emoji’s new single:
In the decade since Taylor Swift released her self-titled debut country album, she has conquered a cornucopia of sounds, all leading up to the synth-pop tunes that brought critical acclaim to her 2014 album, 1989. Now, she’s ready to tackle what’s next. The 10-time Grammy winner, 27, will release the first single from her upcoming sixth album later this week, and it’s sure to get fans talking. “The single is very different. It goes from very soft, to hard, to soft again,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Taylor is overhauling her image.”
And while the track follows in the footsteps of 1989’s pop vibe, “it doesn’t sound like anything she’s done before,” a second insider tells Us. “It’s a little unusual. She plays around with new sounds each album cycle, but this one in particular stands out.”
The music video for the highly anticipated single matches its unique sound. “The video is definitely eye-catching,” the second source adds.
As Us Weekly exclusively revealed, Swift’s new single will be released on Friday, August 25, with the video also premiering later this week. “She’s being very secretive about it, but it’s going to be a really good one,” a source told Us. With the release of her new music, the “Shake It Off” singer is ready to return to the public eye again. An insider told Us that she plans to attend the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, August 27.
Vague much? I could write these unnamed source quotes too. A source told me that Taylor is really focused on “shedding her previous image, much like a snake sheds skins.” A source also told me that Tay believes her first single is going to be an amazing pop banger and that Tom Hiddleston has already called her and left a message because he’s so worried!
Also: people think the new single is called “Timeless.” Isn’t that the name of some weird ABC drama about time travel?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Her hair in the first picture is as bad as ScarJos terrible hairdo
she looks so weird in that first pic!
Yah I thought that too – like weirdly airbrushed? Vaseline on the lens?
In the 1st picture she looks bloated.
Lack of eyelashes?
I think people posting the snake emoji all over her posts really got to her and now she’s trying to reclaim the snake for her own.
Yeah, she clearly was very irked that Kim got one over on her. I’m guessing she’ll be coming back with some kind of femme fatale image to own her snake.
That’s exactly what it is. She is a snake and people bombarded her with that fact via emojis. Now she’s going to reclaim it and her fans will be “shook” because everything Taylor does her fans lap up.
hopefully she won’t trademark the snake emoji, like she’s done with “sick beat”
Yep. She’s way too caught up in her own bullshit. Always has been.
The fact that she’s trying to own the snake image makes me wonder if Taylor even understands why people were pissed at her to begin with. She threw a black artist under the bus to further her white, angelic, faux feminist image. She’s so gross for doing this, and her fans are just as gross to support it.
Which is hilarious because she had Instagram filter out all of the comments on her Instas that had snake emojis in them. I’m not even exaggerating, this is what actually happened and there were articles written about it.
NEW snake video is out on IG!
…after all that, in this photo she looks exactly like the court artist drew her…weird how someone not caught up in her glamour spell got so much crticism…
Was the first photo taken during the trial? Because I thought the same thing, the court artist was on point.
Nah that picture is from September of last year when she stepped out with Gigi and Zayn. Everyone remarked that she looked like a suburban mom out with the kids.
There’s already a website for Timeless, Timelss.com, and all it says is “coming soon” so I believe it’s coming from her camp. It’s such a Taylor title, though wholly unoriginal. I kinda can’t believe she doesn’t already have a song with that title. But I’m here for it! I need some new music for my gym playlist. I hope it’s a lot better than her last lead single, Shake it Off. Ugh. That was the worst song on 1989 for me.
My latest theory is that it’ll play in the final episode of GOT this Sunday. She may not have scored a distracting cameo like her buddy sheeran, but this would arguably be an even better, more strategic, marketing ploy. One up her friend AND steal some of Perry’s hosting shine at the VMAs.
How would that benefit GOT though? They got a lot of flack for the dumb Sheeran cameo..
Reputation will be out 11/10…..new single drops tomorrow
In that first photo she really looks like a clone of that satanist woman ( can’t remember the name). Was it last year that was a whole conspiracy thing? It’s uncanny and pretty funny.
Zeena Schreck. And yes, it’s a striking resemblance.
OMG I just had to look her up… identical!
I too just looked her up and yup they could be twins…
Unpopular opinion. Tay Tay can be annoying/somewhat problematic but people are overly salty when it comes to her…especially when there are rock/pop/country singers who have done far worse.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised that she has kept this thing with the new British guy fairly quiet. There was a roll-out for like a week and then radio silence. Considering she’s now in her late 20s, let’s hope she is more mature in this new relationship and her songs are more mature.
I actually thought the country/pop/rock album before 1989 was quite good so I’m a little disappointed that she didn’t go back to that sound and is still doing the pop thing.
I agree about the sound. The first time I really listened to a Taylor song was when 1989 came out because she was everywhere, and I didn’t mind it, but since then I listened to her older stuff and to me, that was much better. I am a musician, and I believe the song Red to be a perfect example of a masterfully created radio song.
I’ll sit with you. I find her personality annoying but I refuse to take her too seriously. I will continue to listen to some of her music which I find mostly ok.
I’m with you, Div. When her stuff comes on the radio I rarely feel the need to change the station and can usually enjoy the song. My niece loves her music, and I’d rather she follow Taylor that some of the other garbage I hear..
I’m with you. My kids love her music and I feel much better about that then when my son asked me about Nicki Minaj and the “anaconda” reference. 😉
can I go even further with my unpopular opinion? I like TS. her songs are catchy, the messages of her new songs are good for girls, and I( as someone from outside of US and of a mind that, if you need a celebrity to guide you through political views, you better educate yourself) don’t mind that she hasn’t said anything about all the drama in US. **
I mean, the girl has her empire under her control: from music, videos, concerts, memorabilia. that is a powerfull message to all the young girls out there, I think. more important than siding with popular political opinion to cash on it at the moment because your idiotic pop hits aren’t cacthy enough anymore. I mean, don’t tell me California girls are inspiring or that Firework is a great work of art.
(*and no, I don’t find Bad blood problematic: I actually think that frenemies are a real thing and I find it refreshing that someone covered that theme in a song).
the only celebrities I admire for their work outside of entertainment are Clooney and Kutcher. Bad , really, really bad things where USA is major factor are happening in the world for years now (and nobody particularly cared)…Trump is just top of the cake. and the cult of celebrities has brought Trump in power. So, celebritiy taking this or that or no stance on it…eh, it doesn’t change a thing, actually.
I don’t think Taylor swift releasing new music is going to make people forget about all the important and crazy shit going on in the world. It’s pop music.
I think adult people long ago accepted that Taylor is part of the crazy shit going on in the world, so yeah, I’m on that.
All I see are those horrible veneers which don’t allow her to close her mouth properly. She looks like she stuck a row of sugarcubes under her top lip.
Really hope she gets a new haircut with her new era. The bangs & shaggy long bob do nothing for her. I’d be really feeling something longerish, lose the bangs, maybe brunette?
I was just thinking the same thing. If she’s doing a whole “darker Tay” era, go darker with the hair as well. She annoys me, but the theatrics always make me laugh.
The one thing she will never, ever do is have dark hair. In every one of her music videos where there’s a heroine/villain dichotomy, she is the pure, virginal, victimized blonde and the mean girl is the brunette. I think she legitimately thinks brunettes are evil (haaaayy). And being the blonde girl is way too much a part of her identity, imo.
@shambles she had very dark hair in that video for Wildest Dreams. It actually looked very good on her. I think the guy was the villain in the video that time.
and when she was on CSI, I think. I’m not going to go check though.
Going dark was a clever move. People talked about it even though it was… nothing!
I think that snake video is exceptionally lame. REAL snakes are creepy; this is just electronic mess trying to look profound. Not sure I like the idea of her going for a new image and a new sound – that sounds electronic to me also.
I find her music extremely cheeseball. I don’t really understand why people obsess over it.
I can’t stand country or pop music. All I know about her music is that she writes about ex boyfriends. I never understood the obsession with her or any other pop singers cheesy music
Because those people need something to pay attention to since pre-algebra is OMG BORING!
She does have quite a bit of goodwill in the bank following her trial, but even that isn’t enough to make her any less annoying.
It is evaporating by the day because she can’t help herself.
Yeah, I’m tapping out. I was cheering her on during the trial, and was vaguely intrigued when she wiped out her SM history (before I knew Radiohead did it first). The snake tail had me thinking, “no way way she’d be that petty, it must be something else”. Turns out it was exactly what I thought it was going to be, and I’m officially done.
She always does this with her music. Remember shake it off? It literally was talking about how everyone would talk about she couldn’t keep a man. I think of the wise words of Tyrion Lannister, “never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you.” She will own the word snake and it be her scarlet letter. I really admire her. I know most of the people in this feed hate her (still don’t get why when there’s 10000000 people out there waaaaay worse), but I’m looking forward to what she’s been up to. She has basically disappeared for almost a year now.
The amount of vitriol thrown at her can sometimes be startling. I can understand feeling indifferent toward her, but the hatred seems excessive.
I immediately thought of the Tyrion quote after seeing the first vid. I can’t believe that everyone who reads this site hates T Swift. I think maybe the fans or semi-fans are just afraid to comment lol.
I am a middle aged fan. I will admit. She’s not setting the world on fire w a new form of music but she’s entertaining and I don’t have to explain her dirty songs/words/references to my kids, which is a win in my book.
I hope she goes full goth.
I hope she goes away and stays away
I can’t help but think of Paula Abdul’s ‘Cold Hearted Snake’ every single bloody time I have seen these Taylor snake videos. LOL!
She posted the next part and it’s a snake striking. So whatever I guess
30 Seconds to Mars and Foo Fighters just released their new songs. And how did they go about that? By releasing their new songs. Calm down Taylor. You are making the snake thing live on.
clearly she wants it to live on, if she’s using it in marketing material for her new album, which she also titled “Reputation”
she thinks she’s getting ahead of things, and making light of her reputation as a snake, but i think she’s just reminding people who don’t f with her exactly why they don’t. She just has to have the last word, even when she’s wrong.
basically. she will never get it but it won’t effect her. Her fans will still lap up everything she does. People in private will continue to use her but can’t stand her. The world turns
She has name of new album posted “Reputation” first single out tomorrow night and album out November 10th.
Reputation will be out 11/10…..new single drops tomorrow
Thor Ragnarok comes out in the states Nov. 3.
I like that better
Lol she named her album reputation and I’m laughing hysterically.
What pisses me off is that she’s going to turn this whole garbage into some sort of deal about how she had to “overcome” so much and how people were “so hurtful” by rightfully calling her the f*ck out for lying and all her conniving bullshit which is why she’s “reclaiming” the snake emoji. It’s all gonna become some shitty smug statement about “empowering” yourself and “owning” your image when the truth is that people have rightfully criticized her and called her out for being a shady, lying ahole. It’s not “empowering” to characterize something that’s an ACTUAL criticism of an actual character flaw ffs. It ticks me off that this is likely what’s going to wind up happening. And in my eye, it does her zero favours.
Anyway, the snake videos are creepy af, and her fans are the worst.
I fully expect her to try and reshape the narrative while continuing to play victim. I think she’s incapable of taking responsibility for her mistakes or ever admitting fault. She’s the perpetual victim and I can’t imagine that’ll change. I will happily eat my words if she has somehow truly outgrown her teenage girl mentality.
This “strategy ” is going to backfire BiG time on the Press Princess. And I will enjoy every. Single. Minute. Of. It. 🐍
#taylorswiftisoverpart2
And anyone who thinks for one minute that she didn’t use the sh*t out of that trial as build up for this “reinvention” has drunk the Kool Aid.
– A former journalist AND survivor.
#shedoesnotspeakforme
I so agree. It is already bugging the shit out of me.
Basically Shake it off 2.0
MI6 thank you for that. I was saying that from day 1 of this trial. As a woman I’M glad she win but just know she would milking it in her PR game. REPUTATION HAHAHA. Snake please. You don’t have any. She will sing about fake new, bad media, mean SM etc. She will be basicly a Trump of music. Some whit privilege republican who can’t be wrong, a victim of fake news brutal media and people on SM. And they both have bad blond hair 🙂
Exactly, No No. Taylor Trump.🐍
#whatfakenews
#reputationearned
I agree SO much with you MI6, No No, Madly, eat al. I can’t stand her and her over-calculated media manipulations, her cheesy soulless music, and her obsessed fans. I so hope it’s TaylorSwiftIsOverParty2 (like one of you said). And I love what you said, MI6: “ReputationEarned”. I’d love for that to trend on social media in reference to her. I hope that most of the public has grown as tired of her as I have.
And just to defend Madly about being accused of victim-blaming for comments made back when the trial was going on: Madly didn’t “victim-blame”. Madly simply said let’s look at all the facts before we rush to judgement. And considering how untruthful Taylor was in her situation with Kanye, I think that it was a perfectly reasonable thing to say–to not immediately believe the word of a known liar.
@k-peace, thank you!!!
MI6 The era of mess is starting and I’m all for it. Let me take my popcorn. 🙂 Also I’m realy curious about Hiddles. What is her final plan for him on this album? Hope Tommy Boy nail it as Hamlet and has a fun watching as Karma is bitting snake in the ass 🙂
That is what I said during the trial and people mocked me, tried to shame me, called me gross. She is so predictable that I just saw what she was doing a mile away. She is not edgy, she is immature. She would have done better to have just grown up and gain perspective, but she is as petty as she always has been.
I heard you, Madly. And I’ve kept quiet long enough.
Not saying the assault didn’t happen, but let’s be real: that countersuit wasn’t all about feminism. THAT was calculated and deliberate, like her. And people see through that snake skin now.
Which is why this tactic won’t fly with anyone but her cult, like No No said.
@ximena, aww poor little swifty, posting my comments out of context to the conversation to try and embarrass me. Won’t work, but like your queen, you are just as obvious and petty. Go take a nap.
But was she not supposed to countersue instead, even though this guy who allegedly groped her was trying to get money from her? Certainly this trial helped launch her comeback. Obviously. But it wasn’t calculated that this man would sue her and make a fuss of something she wanted to stay private. She used her platform as best she could given the situation.
I’m not suggesting she’s not incredibly strategic in her image — she’s more carefully crafted than most celebs these days. But her reaction to being groped and then sued for her response isn’t something I can nitpick. She handled it well.
@ximena, knock it off. I did not victim shame her. I said wait for the full story. That is not victim shaming and is the same instructions that the jury got. Stop trying to make me the bad guy just by not rushing to judgment. Get off your high horse. And I say that as someone who has a sibling who was raped and was touched inappropriately myself. I also know people who have been wrongly accused of doing such behavior. Step off and piss off.
@ximena,
I am not going to get into the details of what happened to my family member just to get points in a discussion on a message board. You are blowing this way out of proportion. What happened to my sibling was way worse than what happened to Taylor. But in my family’s case, I would have actually loved it if people did not rush to judgment and be open to both sides.
And no I don’t like her, but I did not use her past lies on stuff against her like others have done and think your own history clouds your judgment. I did not try to blame her, you just read into that and that is not my problem.
I hope it does. I’m so over poor taylor and her fans
Oh Swifties. They’re like from some cult. Everyone need to love the Kween Snake and if not they will drag you. I remember poor Jared Leto. He said on some insta story or video on Twitter that he hate her music. They drag him so much that he need to put a tweet that he is very sorry and that he love Tay Tay. They think that it is Korea and she is some Kim Dzong Un who need to be worshiping.
The jury found that ex-radio host David Mueller assaulted and battered Swift during a pre-concert meet-and-greet in June 2013. I read the transcripts & I agreed that the evidence was on her side. How she’s getting slammed for being assaulted is baffling. Geez, find something else to slam her for but leave this one alone.
CHEESE.
She hasn’t even released anything yet and I already want her to go away. She should have taken another year off.