Taylor Swift - I Bet You Think Of Me + Would've Could've Should've | PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Added 2025-08-14 23:36:30 +0000 UTCComments
was literally screaming at my screen that there's credits at the end of the video lol 😭😭 instead of just jumping to the conclusion that she didn't credit anyone.
bigbraveboop
2025-08-21 08:53:05 +0000 UTCThis feels like a stupid "swiftie moment", but I think you have some preconceived notions of Taylor's work, and I'd hope with an info dump maybe I can persuade you to reexamine those. Bear with me, this is truly a "hey I like this thing and want to tell you about it" moment, not a rant. Taylor has directed majority of her videos herself since 2019 (5 albums worth), when she for the first time had full control of her videos but none of the female directors she wanted were available and it was vital the story in that song be told by a woman. She called up director of her documentary Lana Wilson for advice, and Lana told her to do it herself. So she did, and never stopped as she "fell in love" with the additional storytelling it allowed her to do. I Bet You Think About Me is the exception, which was a favor to Blake who has been a close friend a long time (Taylor is godmother to her 3 daughters, who's names are even used in Taylors songs and even one of their voices too). Thinking she doesn't give credit is kind of wild, they did a whole big press thing for the collab, which was Blake's directorial debut, which you not seeing at the time is fair, but it was disappointing to see you assume she wouldn't give credit. (This is the woman who is so freaking loyal she has had the same band for over 16 years, and many of the same vocalists and dancers for well over a decade -- the woman who in the tour before Eras would name every single dancer and backup vocalist and band member to give them each their moment on camera centerstage, and lives on in the Rep Tour recording, --the woman who shares songwriting credit if a producer contributes even just a few words or small melody change, as Jack and Aaron have mentioned mutliple times -- the woman who gave everyone on her staff, even the truck drivers, $100k+ bonuses after the US leg of Eras... this woman props up those around her). She repeatedly fully credits that she learned much of what she knows about directing videos through her work with Joseph Kahn, who did her music videos for 1989 and Rep, and he has, even as of a few weeks ago in an interview, had nothing but extremely positive things to say about working with her and how involved she was from the very first video they worked on and how proud he is of her doing it on her own. The not sharing credit thing is a bit of a trigger for elder swifties, because we were there with her when she was 19 winning her first Album of the Year and everyone said she didnt deserve her success and "a teenage girl couldn't possibly be pulling her weight in the writers room" -- we watched her take that doubt and write an entire album, with zero cowriters, and win Album of the Year for it ("People underestimate how much I will inconvenience myself to prove a point."). People getting credit is extremely personally important for Taylor. After her first few music videos, she's sat down with many big directors to get advice for her future projects (Guillermo del Toro being one who has publicly talked about it, he even gave her a book of fairytales he used early in his work), and after the success of her All Too Well Short Film, she has a full-length screenplay greenlit by Fox Searchlight which is in its second draft if I'm not mistaken. For her Eras Movie, no studio or distributor would support it, so she and her team made direct relationships with theater chains all over the world and distributed it herself, which led to even Christopher Nolan chiming in praising her for breaking down barriers in the industry. Shawn Levy, of Stranger Things EP and Deadpool 3 director, who also participated as cast as her dad in her short film, specifically has compared her to Spielberg in how she creates a vivid vision and executes it (which feels too far, but he said it not me). Anyway, I appreciate you checking these out even tho it's not to your taste. I'd just challenge what other preconceptions may you have too. With the insane range of Taylor's work, I'd encourage you to try more from albums after 1989 era. With just under 300 songs and 16 different genres released, "not my taste" is usually code for "I've heard a few songs on the radio and they weren't for me and I looked no further". Some of your comments make me think you'd really enjoy a good deal of her stuff starting Rep and beyond.
Griffin
2025-08-18 20:15:21 +0000 UTCWould've Could've Should've is one of my favorites along with Dear John (also about John Mayer) and my one song I like from him is Slow Dancing in a Burning Room which is allegedly about her.
vangogh_green
2025-08-16 21:07:21 +0000 UTCThat makes so much sense(song 2) as I was getting *vibes* but wasn't certain!
Phoenix Mackenzie
2025-08-15 06:07:12 +0000 UTCI'm really glad you were able to appreciate the song writing even if her music isn't your vibe! I totally understand that her music might not be for everyone. If you're wanting just a little context on the second song, it was written when she was about 32 looking back on the relationship she had at 19 with a 32 year old. She has a song called Dear John that she wrote immediately after that break up that has all the "Should've" lines whereas "Would've, Could've, Should've" only has "Would've" and "Could've" lines in the verses. I think this relationship is one she's healed from (as much as one can from that kind of relationship) but her Midnights album was essentially songs she wrote about the things that had kept her up at night over the years as a way of confronting and moving past them.
Alexandra
2025-08-15 00:31:09 +0000 UTCSince I have no idea what albums you have seen/heard, I just wanted to mention that she has actually done a few different genres.
EmberPanther
2025-08-15 00:30:17 +0000 UTCLol, knew I'd see you here /t
Dylan Mancy
2025-08-15 00:11:55 +0000 UTCShe’s not a one man show I have some news for you but Blake lively directed this one usually it’s Taylor
Cecereads23
2025-08-14 23:46:39 +0000 UTC
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