I definitely think the taylor in the cage is the real Never Underestimate A Woman Who Listens To Blake Shelton And Was Born In November Shirt and robot taylor is who people are perceiving her to be. Like that’s the media thinking they made her. Notice that robot Taylor is like singing to caged Taylor kind of mockingly and caged Taylor sings very select words like “jailer”. So as she’s trying to break out of the cage she armors up for battle and she gets on the horse and that armors up and it almost seems like she’s developing a thicker skin. Like the girl she used to be, so open and free, is much stronger now.
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And when she does that awe struck thing with the “fireflies” the robot Taylor just touches the cage and knocks her down as if to laugh at her like “you gotta do better than that”. So I think this is Taylor saying like “okay if I want to get out of this cage I have to do something I’ve never done before. I have to be stronger and I have to blow the media away.”

So she summons the lightening and I think that’s a symbol for Reputation itself, like this is the album where she has come out to be unapologetically herself and stronger than she’s ever been. So that gets the media to “touch her” which is really ironic because they keep saying “touch me and you’ll never be alone” but ultimately them touching her, is their downfall.

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So she breaks out and the robot takes out everything and I’m looking at it optimistically like maybe new Taylor/caged Taylor is starting to think she finally is getting the chance to be herself again. Anyway, I think it’s awesome and very creative. Someone let me know if I’m way off base with this lol. To all those people complaining about Taylor “selling out” by appearing “naked” … here’s the difference. Taylor = genius.

After Kayne used her naked body to “objectify” her, she used her “naked” body to empower herself in the most tasteful way imaginable. She’s not “naked” in a “sexual” way to make it easy to sell music and get views. She’s “naked” in a symbolic way – this is the real her, vulnerable, stripped down, and purest version of herself to simply who she is trying to get out of a box.

. It’s not the Taylor with the “big gun” or “fancy horse” who frees herself – it’s the “naked/real” one without anything but her voice. She destroys the dark robot version of Taylor and ascends as a human with that smile and tear. Very empowering. the nude costume taylor is taylor at her most vulnerable state the Never Underestimate A Woman Who Listens To Blake Shelton And Was Born In November Shirt so when she destroys the hooded taylor it’s the “evil” taylor that the media portrays, I think she’s saying that she’s ready to show the true taylor no matter how vulnerable and take down the negative opinions in the media….that’s my thoughts and what i got from the video at least!