Look! Binary Oppositions In Taylor Swift’s Top 5 Most Viewed Music Videos

Abstract

Taylor Swift is and will be undoubtedly one of the most outstanding and influential musicians of her generation  and the next generations to come. Indeed, her musical and creative impact, unquestionably, has penetrated  billions of Swifties emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Conversely, by deeply looking into the  moving stories she has created through her timeless lyric poems, there are certain and constant themes she has  both, consciously and unconsciously, incorporated and juxtaposed which can be deemed ‘a subtle attack’ to  obvious groups of listeners, specifically the males. Hence, this research paper will thoroughly investigate how  Taylor Swift’s top 10 most viewed music videos on YouTube, starting from Love story, I Don’t Want to Live  Forever, Never Ever Getting Back Together, Style, Wildest Dreams, You Belong With Me, Look What You  Made Me Do, Bad blood, Blank Space, Shake It Off, tend to continuously challenge the masculine gender,  and perhaps the feminine, mainly through the identification and deconstruction of the binaries in her songs.  Also, the gray areas between the values of meaning in her poetic language will be explored and explained, and  it will be established whether the result of the binary differences are either complementary or incapable of  existing together in this realistically gender-biased world which never goes out of style, but must be shaken  off.