The recurring use of Koi Fish in the Midnights Music Videos + Speak Now

We all know the Speak Now Tour Guitar had the koi fish on it. So Taylor’s relentless references to speak now in these 3 music videos makes it clear this chick wants the concept of Speak Now (regaining her voice and her truth) to be the recurring theme of this whole roll out and I am loving it.

Taylor told us that Lavender Haze was the first video she wrote out of the 3 music videos released so far which helped conceptualize Midnights.

In LH Taylor used the koi fish at two key parts, pulling back the weather forecast curtain on the tv screen. Where she goes from being bored to seeing the koi fish as a way out. The next scene is her putting on a PDA show at a party with her man. Then the koi fish returned at the end of the video when she knocked down the fake room she held the party in and then went to sleep in that cloud surrounded by the koi fish. It’s almost like she used the man to get into this space where she could get to the fish.

So when she ends the video going into the cloud surround by the fish it almost looks like she’s inside the Speak Now guitar. Like she put herself in the best place to get back to her truth.

In the Anti-Hero mv, her outward persona and her inward self both have the Speak Now tour guitar with Koi Fish on it. The public facing wild Taylor destroys the guitar while the inward Taylor watches while laughing and playing hers. If we take the idea of Taylor being inside the guitar and apply it here then it looks like outward facing Taylor is doing everything she can to “free” inward Taylor by destroying her truth. Thematically after this scene we are first introduced to giant Taylor who is too big to just hang out and then we see outward Taylor teaching inward Taylor to change everything about herself or dislike herself to make living a lie more tolerable. Moreover, we are first introduced to outward public facing Taylor when inward Taylor is about to run out of the house she is trapped in. But outward Taylor keeps her inside and gives her different coping mechanisms. Almost like outward Taylor is pretending to help but is actually trying to keep inward Taylor trapped.

In the Bejeweled mv. Once Taylor wins the castle she goes to the balcony as Long Live plays and the Koi fish are in the top half of the stain glass window. The way that the stained glass is curved looks almost like she’s stepping out from inside the guitar. She also has the Speak Now barrettes in her hair. She started the music video in exile similar to the Inward version of herself who is trapped in the house in AntiHero mv. And she goes on this journey to reclaim her jewels and the castle that was once hers just to burn it down in the end.

As has been discussed at length by others koi fish represent perseverance and overcoming obstacles. Taylor’s biggest obstacle has been this journey to reclaim her past. She can’t speak until she has her truth. So the use of the koi fish and recurring speak now era themes is just an awesome way to lay out this journey.

The power of this koi fish Speak Now through-line is great. I love it. I can’t wait to see what else she puts out.

P.S. I am still patiently waiting for speak now tv lol

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