Hallett's Music Reviews: Conceptual lyric video designs for Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) (Hallett's Version)

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Conceptual lyric video designs for Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) (Hallett's Version)

Hi! Welcome to the second installment in my four-part series of conceptual lyric videos. If you don't know already, whenever Taylor Swift rerecords an album, she releases lyric videos for all of the songs on that album. A lot of them are actually really cool, with some almost functioning as proper music videos. Unlike the typical lyric videos, Taylor's lyric videos are generally set over a background that encapsulates the song or the era, sometimes multiple shifting backgrounds, and sometimes with a montage of photos (usually from the album's tour). Some of my personal favorites of the lyric videos so far are the ones for All Too Well, Clean, 22, Blank Space, Today Was A Fairytale, Jump Then Fall, The Lucky One, and I Can See You, so I recommend that you check those out.

Anyway, this is another fan design-style post that I've done a few of before, and it's a lot like the post I made a few weeks ago with Reputation. I made conceptual designs for lyric videos for the self-titled debut album Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version). No, I didn't make entire videos, just pictures with the core design ideas I had in mind. And yes, I made all of these without the help of AI because I'm extra like that. Also, as much time and effort as I put into getting these to look great, it's not like I perfected each design pixel-by-pixel, because... that's just simply not possible. There may very well be some errors, so I'm sorry if I didn't catch a minor typo in the lyrics, or a tiny camouflaged watermark on one of the random royalty-free stock photos I used, or one unnecessary pixel of fuchsia-ish-mauve in the middle of a blank space. Don't attack me for any misplaced pixels like everyone does to Taylor Swift.

I'd love to hear in the comments which ones are your personal favorites. I think Cold As You, Invisible, Our Song, Crazier, and Lucky You turned out the most "official-looking", and Picture To Burn (my least favorite Taylor Swift song) and the possible vault track I'd Lie have two of the funniest designs. Let me know what you think.

(Yes, I know Taylor bought all her albums back so she technically wouldn't need to rerecord this, but she did announce that she still wanted to release a rerecording of this album with her matured vocals, so I'm just gonna assume we're still getting Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version), and even if not, this was still just a fun little collection of designs to make.)

There will be no further explanation. There will just be... T A Y L O R S W I F T.

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