Taylor Swift Colonial Nostalgia

One of the most popular musical artists in today’s society would be Taylor Swift. She creates many music videos in which she is looking back at her life and her previous exes. One common factor in these songs and videos are her references to “colonial nostalgia.” She provides this nostalgia by making almost all her songs about her past experiences with people. She tends to write a lot of song about her previous exes. In by doing this she is able to provide a certain “nostalgia” that her listeners can relate to and understand her previous experiences. More specifically, a great example of where Taylor Swift’s presents this idea of “colonial nostalgia” would be in her song and music video for “Style.” The entire music video constantly makes …show more content…
Again if we looked back this is how the guy that every girl wanted was represented many years ago. He would be leaned up against a wall with a skin tight white shirt and blue jeans and that is seen in this video. And another scene that seems to reference previous times of music videos in general would be when its just the man she is signing about on the beach with his hair being blown back to try and show how “dreamy” he is. Finally in this song she says “we never go out of style” several times throughout its duration. This implying that she intentionally was making references to previous times and saying that these things will never go away and they are still what society deems as “needed.” Although we have only looked at one example by Taylor Swift we see this trend in all of her music. A prime example of this “colonial nostalgia” is seen in her “Wildest Dream” and her “Blank Space” music videos. If we looked at all her music in general we would also see this trend of what the topic of each song is. Usually it seems as if she is focusing on her previous relationships which all would relate to the “nostalgia” part of