![]() If we can’t ignore small details like Vespas and vintage comic books, then we sure as hell can’t ignore the 800 pound Electric Country Bear in the room.īy now you’ve hopefully reassembled the shattered pieces of your blown mind and are now asking yourself, “So what does this all mean?” I’m glad you asked. As we’ve pointed out many times in our Musical Talmud series, a lot of time, energy, and thought goes into a music video and its visual elements. ![]() While you collect the shattered pieces of your blown mind, let me remind you of what I said earlier: there’s more to this than throwaway weirdness. Both can be found in The Country Bear Jamboree, a Disney attraction comprised of hillbilly animatronic bears:Īnd there’s even another example of an animatronic musical bear sporting a rectangular stringed instrument: the Rock-afire Explosion band from Showbiz Pizza (now a part of the Chuck-E-Cheese pizza chain): If this looks familiar to you, it’s probably because it’s the trademark guitar of blues legend Bo Diddley:īut that only covers half of the bear costume + oddly shaped musical instrument combination. (This is, after all.) Let’s focus for a moment on one of the band members in particular, the one in the bear costume and a distinctive rectangular guitar: But I think there’s more to this than throwaway weirdness. Taylor Swift may just be throwing some interesting visual imagery into her videos and live performance for the sake of novelty. Here’s a still showing the furries in background: In case you can’t watch the video, here’s a still that shows Swift’s animal-costumed band helping her get over her breakup with Jake Gyllenhaal:Īs if to prove that their presence wasn’t an accident, she trotted them out again at her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. So why is she dabbling in the “furry” fringe subculture in her latest music video, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”? ![]() Taylor Swift may or may not be “America’s Sweetheart,” as she is called by some, but she’s undeniably a huge cultural force and mega-purveyor of mainstream pop music. ![]()
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