The Real Meaning Behind Blank Space By Taylor Swift

"Blank Space," the second single off Taylor Swift's 2014 album 1989, remains, as of July 2020, one of herbiggest hits. The song was apparently born out of Swift's therapeutic need to express self-deprecating humor, according to the singer's 2014 performance at the GRAMMY museum. She explained that the media's portrayal of her as "a psycho

"Blank Space," the second single off Taylor Swift's 2014 album 1989, remains, as of July 2020, one of her biggest hits. The song was apparently born out of Swift's therapeutic need to express self-deprecating humor, according to the singer's 2014 performance at the GRAMMY museum. She explained that the media's portrayal of her as "a psycho serial dater girl" was, at first, disheartening. "My first reaction was to be like, 'man that's a bummer, this isn't fun for me,'" Swift told the live audience. "But then my second reaction ended up being, 'hey that's actually kind of a really interesting character they're writing about. She jetsets around the world collecting men... but she's so clingy that they leave and she cries, and then she gets another one in her web and she... locks them in her mansion,'" Swift continued.

Sure enough, in the song's music video, Swift portrays this histrionic, media-invented "Taylor Swift," a girl who enjoys a dreamy honeymoon phase with her boyfriend (portrayed by top model Sean O'Pry) in a gilded mansion before finding seemingly suspicious activity on his phone (which she drops into the pool, of course). Enter crying jags on the floor replete with runny mascara and angrily scissoring holes into the boyfriend's shirt. 

"Half the people got the joke, half the people really think that I was, like, really owning the act that I'm a psychopath," Swift laughingly told NME in 2015. You have to love a girl with a snarky sense of humor!

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