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Before, shed been under near-total surveillance.
Filmed, photographed, and interviewed at every turn, she couldnt go unnoticed.
Nice fans make demands on her time.
Deranged fans lay claim to her body.
When she moves, four bodyguards move with her.
If privacy was air, shed be suffocating.
But then a change happens.
After she reads the note, she cant see her reflection in the mirror.
Some women enter the room, and they cant see her either!
She tries to catch her bodyguards attention, to no avail.
She inserts herself between people; they carry on as if she isnt there.
Perhaps out of politeness, she doesnt make a run at touch anyone.
Some people look up as she enters, but it might not be her theyre seeing.
The whole thing is, of course, a conceit.
Why is anyone watching a Taylor Swift music video, if not to see Taylor Swift?
Musically speaking, Delicate is a victory, one ofReputations three or four best tracks.
Taylor Swifts Journey From Country Starlet To Pop Superstar
But the video is another matter.
In less than two years shes gone frombeing sabotaged by otherstoaccidental self-sabotage; now shes self-sabotaging on purpose.
