Everything You Missed In Taylor Swift's 'Willow' Video | Pop Culture Decoded

Hooded cloaks, dancing in a circle around a bonfire at night? This has Satanism and Witchcraft written all over it. Don't be fooled kiddies.

all this and they broke up ☹️

oh how my jaw dropped

All these comments are from 2 years ago 😢.

I think 🤔 Tay will regret going a tour breaking a Billions dollars 💵 with 3 hours shows instead getting her personal life first 😢❤

The escene where Taylor cannot get out of the stage reminds me of the Lover mv fishbowl she wants some to be there with her knowing all the eyes are on them

In Asia the golden string is kinda similar to the red string of destiny. People are bound to each other if they found the other person at the end of their red string.

Pls make a video on all too well and midmights mv plsss

Every body don't ever mess with someone like Taylor

I wanted to note about the witch bonfire... I wonder if it represents hoping and yearning to find something... sending out the call from your soul out into the universe -- and hoping that the magic will answer you --- that another soul will hear that call and find you, or leave a trail to find your way to them...

Idk if that's it... but that's what I think of.

She keeps not being able to reach him, or find him, but knows he's somewhere out there... She marches to the spell bonfire, with determination - she'll do & try whatever it might take, to find him and reach him -- eventually it works as the golden string reappears & she breaks away to follow it (indicating that was why she was there in the first place? To find the string that leads to him again?) -- also shows him there -- looking for her too? The spell also working for him as well, as he notices her leaving to follow their thread? And when she reaches the end of it, it's not just to him - it's to him AND her home. Indicating that they are the same. He is her home, more than her house is. Them then leaving the small house representing maybe leaving the loneliness or isolation or darkness behind... and walking into the future together - sure to be bright whatever it is, because they are together.

The explanation in this video certainly helped to clear up some questions I had. Thanks for posting it!

I find it comforting to know that these same three songs always struck me fiercely as songs that remind me of someone I care about... Delicate, Cruel Summer, - and this one... Willow - I didn't know they were linked or that all three were about the man she now loves and feels safe with and whom still has not wronged her or changed his mind, nor has she... these things give me hope. Not just that her journey has finally brought her to something real and lasting... but that such a thing as real, deeply intimate, lasting, and made of more, not less - does exist. That it is out there to be found and shared. It's so easy to lose hope.

Thanks so much for breaking this down!

I remembered love potion and Romilda Vane uff

🙏❤️hail taylor🙏❤️wish I could have a little bit of your talent😘😘😘😘😘

La escena de Taylor Swift reflejandose en el lago me recordo al mito de Narciso.

This woman is a genius, this is a masterpiece that she created.

okay but in the scene where they're all casting spells, maybe it denotes how people are constantly trying that someone falls in love with them and taylor dated people hoping to find love. i guess it shows how she's trying to make people fall in love with her like everyone else around her but she sees the string and follows it and the love interest comes after her which shows how she stopped trying to get someone to love her and ended up with joe because he really cared for her and followed her.

That was awesome

Love you much house honey Taylor Swift. I'm Girbert. Trần Vân Thiên Long Girbert 🇲🇫

Whoever the people are who decides the Grammys obviously don't know good,
It's people like Taylor who can put out brilliant albums.

I want to plan my life like how taylor plan her songs 😭

Thanks for sharing. Like cover songs? If you have a minute, I just posted an acoustic cover of Daya. As a fellow music lover, I'd love if you'd check it out. It's on my channel. Hope you like it!

Your voice is so relaxing I could hear it all day

Like how smart taylor is. but I am mostly wonder of how great an investigator swifties are

The last scene is also a reference to the last stanza of evermore

And I was catching my breath
Floors of a cabin creaking under my step
And I couldn't be sure
I had a feeling so peculiar
This pain wouldn't be for
Evermore

Agree that it’s about the early beginnings of one of her relationships but not with Joe. Joe never wore a hat like that but someone else did.

That is the reason why I love Taylor Swift...😢😢😢 Her easter eggs and lyrics is just like my life right now...A peaceful and private life with the person that you loved the most...💕

Regarding 4.37😅😅😅 there is now a willow 90s remix🥰😍

HI ANNA

I don’t know but for me all I can see Taylor travels the past year back
Like on the beginning of the video it’s so very 1800s vibe then comes to 1700-1500s vibe then on that hoodie Taylor she’s very 11th or 14th century vibe
That’s for me only

Its really hard to love a celebrity, he/she needs to protect you, your privacy and her/his career

Red star, is she rerecording Red????!!!!!! Her Hey Stephen mv says that she is rerecording Speak Now. She said that she had 30+ songs for red and only some made the cut. Maybe she is rerecording some in the background????

Edit: I CALLED IT!!!

Thats too much creativity, best artist for a reason 💕

D*mn good observer.🥺

Nailed it!!! Great job finding symbolism and callbacks to other songs! I think walking out of the woods is also a callback to OOTW.

❤

Okay why am I crying?!

damn taylor is so genius at writing songs

WOW 🥰

the only part i don’t understand is why was her lover one of the witches? and wearing a mask? and he watched her leave to continue following the gold string.

No I can’t believe i live in the same time that Taylor does this is too much i SO lucky

I think the upcomming album of taylor will be bop

What's the guy name that was on the song😙🙂🙃

I consider "i comeback stronger than a 90s trend" as a reference to witchcraft, since films with this theme were very successful that decade and, in the clip, the next scene is taylor casting a spell with her coven. in addition, taylor references each season in willow: the old pagans saw themselves as a reflection of nature, thus emerging the sabbaths at each turn of the season to celebrate the change that occurred in nature outside and inside them. shortly after taylor released the witch versions of willow.

See when you’re talented and artist of the 21st century

Me: and I thought my mind was busy, Taylor’s must be full of thoughts at all times!

Why every body want to break the Taylor name?

Why FBI when you have swifties