The Fearless One has finally shown the entire world the full video of her new single, Mine, and guess what?
There were no spaceships. There was no sports cars doing illegal street racing. At no moment in time did two girls started making out. People kept their clothes on. At no point during the video did glass break or did a fire start and nobody got engulfed in flames. Special effects were absent for the most part, unless you want to consider slow motion and post production editing. I couldn’t catch any CGI either. Boring, isn’t it?
Okey, let me drop the sarcasm. This is a great video, and it is plot driven. There’s a story here, folks. A regular non-enhanced story and you can’t see this and tell me it’s not country.
That’s enough of me yapping. Video premiere time!
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CMT Premieres Taylor Swift “Mine”
First of all, the video is obviously not about Taylor’s life experience. Taylor has sharpened her storytelling skills to produce a video not about herself, but about a possible future and a background that is not her own. It is not outlandish. In the video, the Fearless One plays a child of two parents who were constantly fighting and possibly even went through a divorce. The whole idea is she doesn’t believe love can last. We even see her as a kid witnessing her parents fighting. She meets the guy, her future love interest, waiting tables.
As T-Swizzle explains during the premiere’s tour of the Kennebunkport, Maine her character doesn’t fall in love at first sight when she first meets Toby Hemingway as a waiter. You have to see Tay’s facial expressions because I cracked up at that point of the premiere. She shows Katie Cook her classic damsel falling in love look and then the look in her video which was more like “Hey. What?”
But let’s go back to the video. Toby may fail to woo Taylor the first time they met, but she does fall for him (whew, close call there huh?). Meanwhile, singing Taylor appears at different intervals walking amidst a forest where different photographs of herself at different parts of her life are hung from the trees. We go back to story time Taylor moving in with Toby and reminiscing about her parents. The two walk along the shore and get to have a romantic canoe ride that ends in a surprise proposal.
The fight scene is played with grown-up Taylor in a shouting match with Toby while child Taylor is watching her parents fighting. By the way, this is a video plot. Andrea and Scott Swift are not depicted in this video. For that matter, neither is Taylor herself. The video shows both young Taylor and grown-up Taylor running out of the house, signifying that Taylor is once again feeling love is just a passing thing and not meant to last. The drama in this plot shows the Fearless One has grown up considerably since Love Story.
But Toby’s character goes after Taylor to actually show love does conquer all. And then we get the wedding scene which is rather nice but not overblown. Taylor keeps the small town charm throughout the video with a lot of class and no extravagance. We see our video couple having a child, having a birthday party and even having a second child to form a happy family. It’s not so much a storybook ending as it is a normal happy one.
And you can see it now.
Taylor will also be a part of the CMA Festival: Country’s Night to Rock that airs on ABC on September the 1st at 8/7c (that’s 8pm Eastern, 7PM Central). You will get to see her play Mine live for the first time in a secret performance that happened during the CMA Festival.
(Sources: CMT.com, CMAFest.com)
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This has to be by far my favorite Taylor video, I love that it shows she has grown in the past two years since Fearless, and I can’t wait until Speak Now comes out in October.