Taylor Swift: Mean (2011 Music Video) User Reviews

Good music, good message

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 4 August 2015]

This is a 2011 song from Taylor Swift and it's really nice to see the country music elements in this song. It's definitely a strength of her and I hope she keeps pursuing that path again at some point instead of generic pop music or even worse rap music. I like some of her pop songs too, however, they are mostly creative. I am a bit worried though about her recently, as "Bad Blood" and "Style" certainly weren't among her greatest efforts. Anyway, this music video here fits the catchy song very nicely as it includes an important anti-bullying message and shows us that the victims are the real winners in the end. Of course, it does not always go that way, but it's still a nice little uplifting tale, even if admittedly the scenes with Swift and the cowboy gangsters were pretty odd to say the least. Good music video and I recommend it.

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[catpantry · 10/10 · 4 April 2020]

Conley 'the ender' was in this. Swaying around near the gazeba, Conley winks at the ticket master (zwindellina). At first it was the same old thing (people have to be seen where they're at). But Zwindellina smashed her hand over her hair ounce she took a gulp of conleys ways (unaccepted in the southern world). Conley spent some time not piling up tic taks without anything built. Summary: nothing was audubly or visually real.

only for Swifties

[RavenGlamDVDCollector · 5/10 · 20 August 2016]

Only for Swifties. Others needn't bother, they're only going to criticize it, it has a total honky-tonk hillbilly sound (I mean, it's a banjo with some concertina thrown in, yikes! in this day and age, my lady!) and so I doubt that anybody but a Swiftie would go for it, it ain't the Nineteenth century no more. Of course, the world is full of Swifties, and I am a Swiftie myself. But even by Swiftie standards, I think Taylor's pushing it here, not too much of this, my lady, this was 2011, looks more like 1911, sounds really really really like 18waybackyesteryear.

Among us Swifties, this is really not something to be discarded just because it appears so dorky, it's cute and has got a powerful, timeless message of overcoming bullies. I myself now feel really really MEAN for my comments, but I have to call it as I see it, that it is in no way at all, not by a long chalk, my favorite Taylor Swift song/music video. I still worship the ground she walks on, though. But give me LOVE STORY or YOU BELONG WITH ME. Not this. So that's why I gotta be so MEAN. And a liar. And pathetic. Well, gee, perhaps, but a liar, no.

Then again anything Taylormade can leave the average junk out there in the dust.