music video plots based on taylor swift songs (requests open)

red: all too well (not requested)

i felt like i needed a good song to come back with after my week-long break, so i decided to do the swifties' anthem, the song that's lyrics get shouted the loudest at every concert it's played at, even if it had been 6 years as of the reputation stadium tour since it had been released, even if it was an acoustic with her guitar which makes it the tiniest bit less emotional than with the piano, even if it means you can't even hear her singing anymore, it's just a bellowing chorus of singing about jake gyllenhaal and you can't even distinguish the lyrics because the crowd's not caring if they get them wrong because it's their favorite song (okay, i admit, i scream the words every time, even if it's just along to the studio version in my room, i still do it because it's my favorite song and i can't not join in). so yes, i've decided to do all too well justice by giving it a video plot. and you can probably tell that i obsess over this song and i am obsessing over it as i write this. and now, i'm going to stop this not before it gets longer than the video description itself. so here we go.

it starts with the production playing with a blank screen. once it gets halfway through the intro, the video part starts and it shows taylor and her ex getting out of the car and walking towards the steps to a house. it's fall, the colors around them are beautiful, there're leaves all over the ground, and (surprise, surprise) she's wearing her scarf (i need to not obsess over fall, it's my favorite season and i can't handle it). the lyrics start as they walk through the door of the house and his sister greets them (hello, maggie gyllenhaal [sorry, i need to stop before i get annoyed at myself]). taylor takes off her scarf and jacket and puts them on the coat rack, and as it goes into the instrumental part, there's a transition where it shows the words "even now" as they play in the song and the camera zooms in on the second n and goes through the space in the middle to show taylor in her room, breaking down after a horrible text chain with jake that led to him breaking up with her. so she stumbles over to the piano, grabs the notebook and pen on the top of it, and starts to write. first one song (all too well), then another (red), then yet another (state of grace), until suddenly, there are lyrics to eight more songs scattered all over (wanegbt, i almost do, sad beautiful tragic, the moment i knew, babe, the last time, and better man). this happens during the instrumental and second verse. during the pre-chorus, it shows her and jake talking to maggie and making jokes and laughing with her, and then introducing a new taylor to the video: the taylor that sits in her room looking through all the pictures and going back through all the memories and thinking back to when things happened and telling her older self that she should've realized he was bad news. during the chorus, it goes to taylor in the passenger seat of a car, with jake driving, blasting her apple music playlist and singing along to it put her window, and jake getting distracted and making lots of wrong turns until they were lost, and taylor's hair (and scarf) flowing behind her in the wind. for the second verse (or third, i can't tell; this song has so many parts to it), taylor and jake are now at jake's parents' house, flipping through old photo albums and looking at a "little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed" and jake talking about taylor like he was her future. then it goes back to her at the piano, playing the song, trying to get the hang of it. she does one flip back with her head before singing the chorus, and that shows a transition into the live grammys performance of the song, where it stays for the first part of the chorus, then back to taylor telling her past self that he was bad news, and her falling back onto her back on her bed and slowly moving herself up, and then my favorite part, the piano headbang, which shows fast transitions between the grammys performance and her at the piano in her house. the bridge is her with jake and his parents, then at the "you call me up again just to break me like a promise" line, it's shown by her screaming that at the picture of jake on her bedside table, and knocking it onto the ground. it goes back to her at the piano in her house, then grammys, then jake's parents' house, and then it stays at her crying in her room until the pause that she always does when she performs it live, after "now you mail back my things and i walk home alone", and she says something about what inspired the song and how if she felt something at the time, then the time spent with him wasn't wasted because she loved him before she knew he'd cheat. then it goes to grammys for the most part, but then there're also flashbacks of her and jake together for the rest of the song except for the very end of the chorus, and that shows her playing piano at home one last time before the screen goes black, and the words "I think sometimes you try to find a lesson in something and maybe it'll help you forget the things that you remember all too well" are shown on the screen as she says them, and then the video ends.