Has Taylor Swift totally shaken off her
"good girl" country star image?
Your Friday just
got a little more angsty. Pop stars Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik just
dropped a new video for their slow jam "I Don't Wanna Live
Forever" from the "Fifty Shades Darker" soundtrack."I've
been looking sad in all the nicest places," Swift sings on the slinky
R&B; song.
The
video shows the "Bad Blood" and "Pillowtalk" singers wandering
around a luxury hotel alone and trashing their rooms. Shot in shades of red,
green, and blue (get it?) at London’s St. Pancras Renaissance
Hotel, they're in the same space but do not interact until the very
end. The video is a nod to the "Fifty Shades" franchise — the back
and forth, the opulence, and the lingerie.
"Fifty Shades
Darker" will be in theaters Feb. 10.
Swift and Zayn Malik's music video for their
single "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," which is featured
on the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack,
was released early Friday and could be the sexiest clip yet for her.It depicts
the two as a couple going through a breakup, with both acting destructive
inside a hotel room; He tosses china to the floor and pushes a table and
lamp over, while she smashes a mirror, throws a pillow around
vigorously, and pulls petals off white roses. She also writhes around on a bed.
There are also homages to Fifty Shades Darker, namely Swift's sexy outfita black jacket
draped to show her bare shoulder and her black lace cleavagebaring
demi top, sheer black thigh-high stockings, as well as a lariat necklace
that draws further attention to her chest.Other elements from the movie include
elevator scenes—Fifty Shades Darker's
Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson)
and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan)
appear to have a thing for them—and a sexy masquerade mask that hangs from the
hotel room door.
While Swift and Malik do not touch each other, they do
stand back to back amid red and blue-hued backgrounds in what make quick
but sensual scenes. The singer has sported skimpy looks before
onstage and in her music videos, but most of her tops have been more modest, while
she has stuck to short skirts that have drawn attention to her bare legs.
While she did wear a similar black lace outfit in
"Blank Space," she also appeared while wielding a knife and
the clip's theme was more comical. The video also shows her wearing evening
gowns, a high-neck leopard-print mini dress, a cream strapless crop top and
matching mini skirt and a riding outfit.
In "Bad Blood," Swift and her girlfriends appear
as sexy, futuristic Xena-like warriors, wearing skimpy but functional
leather outfits.The 2014 video "Shake It Off," the first clip
Swift released since trading country music for pop, sees the singer
dressed like a ballerina from Swan Lake and also wearing other
relatively modest outfits.
Swift also showcased sexy looks while performing at the Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show in 2013 and 2014, although they were certainly more modest than the outfits worn
by the actual models."I Don't Wanna Live Forever" marks Zayn's
fourth single and music video. His debut clip, "Pillowtalk," is by
far his sexiest, as it shows him getting cozy with real-life girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
It may not have been easy
for Swift to showcase such a sexy look on camera. In 2011, she told the U.K.
newspaper The
Telegraph, "I like wearing pretty dresses and I like trying out new
styles but I don't feel comfortable taking my clothes off. I wouldn't wear tiny
amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear
that stuff in photo shoots.""My point is not to be sexy, my point is
not to turn masses of people on," she told the outlet in 2015.She told NPR in 2014 that she does not
feel like it's a priority to be "cool, edgy, or sexy."
"When girls feel
like they don't fit into those three themes, which are so obnoxiously thrust
upon them through the media, I think the best thing I can do for those girls is
let them know that this is what my life looks like," she said. "I
love my life. I've never ever felt edgy, cool, or sexy. Not one time."
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