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I feel a little bad giving this music video the time of day because it’s exactly what The Knocks wanted, but this video is just too unsettling to not talk about.
The Knocks’ “I Wish (My Taylor Swift)” finds singer Matthew Koma hanging out in an apartment full of Taylor Swift lookalikes as he sings a series of lines that would feel right at home on some Red Pill backwater forum. But let’s not even touch the lyrics just yet. First, we need to go over how awful and leery this music video is.
The house is full of Taylor clones in this fantasy, and, for some reason, he’s really fixated on T-Swift’s bathroom routine. We see not-Taylors shower, we see not-Taylors sit on the toilet, and we see a not-Taylor bathe in pink lemonade and then wash herself in it. The ultra-gross phrase “I’d drink her bathwater” comes to mind, but I’m not sure if The Knocks are that clever.
The video gets an added tinge of gross given the recent news that Taylor Swift is suing a radio DJ for groping her.
And the song is no better, painting “most girls” as vapid balls of stress who aren’t actually beautiful under all that makeup.
An actual verse:
“Most girls are beautiful in pictures
They’re smoke-and-mirror Juliets, they’re Penn and Teller sisters
Yeah, most girls are post-traumatic stresses
Like fight-or-flighters, up all night untangling their messes“
Apparently, Taylor Swift is the anti-all that (even though the only thing these dudebros can conjure up about her in the video is her penchant for red lipstick).
