Taylor Swift new music video: 'Out of the Woods' sees singer chased by wolves
She probably should have worn a more snow-appropriate dress
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Your support makes all the difference.Taylor Swift has unleashed a dramatic music video for her new single “Out of the Woods” upon the world just in time for 2016.
The Grammy winner premiered the fairytale-style clip on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve last night, much to the excitement of her 68.5 million Twitter followers.
Swift’s regular collaborator Joseph Kahn directed the video, which sees Swift chased by wolves in a snowy mountain landscape while surely freezing in a pale blue dress. She throws a necklace from an old lover off a cliff and plunges into a lake before crawling through mud in the rain and entwining herself in tree roots as a forest fire rages.
The video ends with Swift emerging onto an idyllic beach as the woods disintegrate behind her, followed by another version of herself. Overlay text also found in bestselling album 1989’s sleeve notes reads: “She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow that was everything”.
“Out of the Woods” is largely believed to be about her troubled former relationship with One Direction singer Harry Styles as it vaguely references a snowmobile accident they suffered together.
Swift has confirmed that it is about a “very fragile, very tentative” relationship but has not divulged further details.
The 26-year-old shot some of the video at Bethells beach in New Zealand last November when visiting the country on her world tour. She sparked an outcry among conservationists who claimed she put an endangered native bird at risk and breached a permit with the use of a dozen vehicles.
The company in question, Cherokee Films, accepted full responsibility, cleared Swift and her team of any wrongdoing and made a donation to the Dotterel breeding programme.
Swift is expected to take time off from music this year after suggesting that “people might need a break” from her.
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