Mert & MarcusJoseph Kahn is Taylor Swift’s go-to video director: the two have made six together so far, including her two most recent, “Look What You Made Me Do” and “…Ready for It.” Kahn has worked with many superstars in the past — including Britney Spears — but he says Taylor gets more criticism than anyone he’s ever seen, and he doesn’t know why.
Speaking to Vulture, Kahn says, “This is the most insane thing I have ever seen. She is genuinely a nice, cool, well-rounded, totally stable person, and society doesn’t know what to do with a woman like that! They really don’t! They need to knock her down!”
Kahn goes on: “I feel what’s happening is, they see this…super-secure, super-smart, eloquent woman who can talk for herself…I find that people are intimidated by it, and people resent it for some reason! They need to see her bleed, and they’re trying to make her go crazy to see her come down.”
But Kahn says Taylor refuses to be part of that narrative.
“She does not want to be another one of those stories of a girl getting who gets torn down by the media and suddenly rises on her feet again on the backs of everyone writing their think pieces about how great she is again,” he says. “She’s not letting that process happen, and I applaud her for that.”
Kahn also takes issue issue with Taylor being accused of secretly being pro-Trump, while Kanye West, who publicly supported the president, “gets a free pass.”
“Can you imagine if Taylor had a photo of herself smiling with Trump? Donezo! Done!’ he says. “Meanwhile, we look at Kanye and think, ‘Oh no, he was just a little sick at the time.’”
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