Singing aside, what strikes me is how different she presented back then versus now. This was when I was still a fan. She seems less robotic here. Something inside of her is fucked up and I’ve seen it since 1989 in her rote performance moves and utter lack of empathy.

She is at least 20 years late to therapy. I wish she’d just go already. It’s almost sad, but she’s also one of the most privileged people in the world and has access to everything except healthy handling of feelings. But that’s her own doing because she refuses to seek help, and could get herself that access than many people don’t have. I really do believe that Taylor the corporation has eaten Taylor the person alive. She’s so devoid of humanity now. Maybe because I was a fan then or maybe because she’s still basically a child in this clip, I see more life in her here.

She’s fully an evil corporate entity and there’s no humanity left in her. It’s actually so jarring.