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This song is my song of the summer. I love it's melody and the strong lyrics behind them. The cameos within the video are brilliant also!

This is the music video for the 2019 Taylor Swift song "You Need to Calm Down". It runs exactly for three minutes thirty seconds and Swift also co-directed here. Well it is supposed to be a hymn elaborating on the subject that people should stop being outraged at everything, but mostly everything same-sex related. Which is per se a good idea, however in the really tolerant world (at least western world) we are living right now the music video and song are at least a decade too late probably more. Apart from that, the lyrics are slightly catchy, but still truly simple honestly, which was of course a business decision to make this song also easy to understand for the rather simple-minded and it worked out because it is a big commercial success, shot up to number two at the American charts. The video features many celebrities with strong links to homosexuality like Jesse Tyler Ferguson (big Modern Family fan here!), Ellen DeGeneres (getting a tattoo, don't like her), RuPaul but also some who are straight, but just very famous like Ryan Reynolds. Aside from that, there is a Katy Perry Taylor Swift reunion at the end, which is kinda funny and cute in ana wkward way as they both carry huge fast food costumes. Still Taylor Swift may look nicer with blue hair than blonde, but she comes nowhere near Katy Perry's level of attractiveness orange hair or not. So I guess also those need to calm down who constantly mention the feud between these two as they seem to get along well. Or at least want everybody to believe they do and show it is all friendly etc. Overall, a slightly catchy song, but really vain at its core and the latter is pretty much true as well about the music video. It is rather creating new peoblems than solving them because it makes an issue out of something that really is not of a problem that much anymore with the new generation (if not fueled by hatred religion, there will always be extremist groups) who are getting more and more tolerant these days, but also you have to make sure you don't step into the other extreme. Equality is amazing, positive discrimination is not. Anyway, back from politics too the artistic element here which is not as strong as I would have liekd it to be. The fact that this is nowhere near Swift's worst in recent years only stems from the fact that she has come up with some really bad songs and music videos in the last decade, not because this is really any good. Shame Swift is still so far away from her peak early in her career when she was really good and promising and made a nice impact. What sie does here is just cashing in on a comfortable subject. Not recommended.

I love the song with this video. The video enhances the music like how a movie looks better in a theatre. It is a whimsical music video with messages of equality. Very colourful.

Taylor wears a cute vintage pink bikini. She wears sunglasses with pearls lining the top part of the frames. There is a backyard filled with pink flamingos and it is a very fun vibe. A man wearing a see-through top is serving ice cream. There is a gay wedding and we see protestors holding signs. Taylor also wears a yellow swimsuit that looks great against her skin tone.

We see a person dressed up as Taylor Swift and others dressed up as other female celebrities on a stage. Taylor acknowledges the hate they get. Cakes are shown being destroyed with a hand.

Taylor Swift is dressed up as fries and Katy Perry is a burger. They dance slowly together and hug.