Taylor Swift has become a huge success since her self-titled debut album at just the age of sixteen. 1989, her fifth album in eight years, has smash records, managing to sell over 1.2 million copies of the album in the first week. It is the first album in 2014 to go platinum, and the amount of sales in the first week comes close to the number one spot held by Britney Spears, placing her deep in the history books as one of the hottest stars of our time.

If you want to read more on the album, and our review, head over here; it is a great article on the importance of the album and Swift’s departure from her country roots. Her second single on the album, “Blank Space,”  just debuted its music video online, and if you haven’t seen it already, it is worth a watch.

The video is a twisted fairy tale that depicts Swift as boy-crazy. Literally. As Taylor and her lover ride horses, paint, bike in the house, and take picnics, the scenes change for the worse. Taylor goes on to slash the portraits, throw potted plants, and stab cakes that spontaneously bleed spurts of blood. As she smashes his beautiful car and he drives away, a new car enters as she stares into the camera.

Swift knows what the media portrays her as, and she pulls it off wonderfully in this video. Acting out the crazy girlfriend brings great humor to the video, and brings me back to the video again and again. An interview with Taylor had her discussing the origins of this ‘Serial Dater.’

“They’ve drawn up this profile of a girl who is a serial dater, jetsetting around with all her boyfriends and she get them but she can’t keep them because she’s too emotional and she’s needy,” Swift said. “Then she gets her heart broken because they leave and she’s jilted, so she goes to her evil lair and writes songs about it for revenge.”

Creating this image for her video was something new for her, and it has gone off with a bang. Within six days of this video’s release, “Blank Space” has received more than 45 million views, and a lot of the media’s attention. We will see how the success of this video, and the album, will do the rest of this year, but for now,  “It’s gonna be forever, or it’s gonna go down in flames.”