#5: Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams: I've talked about this one before, so I won't need to talk too long about it as I did a quick analysis in the Taylor Swift music video ranking post. It's just really gorgeous, featuring stunning scene changes and a story of being in love on a movie screen and saying goodbye.
#4: Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U: I've talked about this one before also. It seems like an insanely high-effort video, as it used actual water and fire. I don't need to talk about this for too long since I reviewed it in my Olivia Rodrigo music video ranking but basically she's a cheerleader jokingly cheering her boyfriend on as she sets his house on fire, and buys some popcorn while she's at it to enjoy the show. Great video all-around.
#3: Taylor Swift - All Too Well (The Short Film): A thirteen-minute-long short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien, set to All Too Well and showing the course of their relationship. Overtime, I've caught a lot of parallels to other songs - her ring is on her middle finger and moves to her wedding finger (The Tortured Poets Department), they dance in the kitchen (Cornelia Street, Maroon), he drops her hand at dinner (Champagne Problems). All of these songs are thought to be in some way about Jake Gyllenhaal, other than I think TTPD. There are probably lots more Easter eggs I missed.
#2: Laufey - Goddess: This shows the perspective of both Laufey and the boyfriend as their relationship progresses. They're dancing behind a fence, and he sees a romantic dance. She sees it as being stuck in prison. They get to their room and we see Laufey becoming vulnerable. The man is taking off Laufey's clothes (don't worry nothing spicy is shown lol) which may be a metaphor for shedding the "goddess" he sees on stage and feeling the human on the inside. His expressions suggest that he was a bit "disappointed" by her humanness offstage, and Laufey is noticeably fearful in this scene. Then we get a gorgeous shot of Laufey looking like a goddess, but we zoom out and the scene transitions to her in pure human form. She didn't do her makeup, didn't do her hair - just a human looking over a balcony as the cars pass by. Gorgeous.
#1: Mitski - Nobody: My favorite music video. I could do a whole in-depth analysis of this video, because it's awesome. Put simply, Mitski is surrounded by paper cutouts and paintings and is looking for one real person. Somebody. Anybody. But finds... well, nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody. I love the scene near the end with a closeup on her hand and "nobody" is written on it, but then she looks at it again through a magnifying glass and it says "you". So after all that, she finds herself. This video is just the music video. It's simple, but it accompanies the song. It fits the song while adding to it. Amazing.
That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!
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