- Music Industry's (Aka Taylor Swift) nightmares, and her issues with depersonalization and self-hatred, critiquing her shortcomings and societal pressures.
- The video begins with Taylor Swift singing the first verse while she is in the kitchen of a 1970's-style suburban house at nighttime. For a brief moment, Swift is surrounded by ghosts in tablecloths. She opens the front door of the house and reveals a second version of herself, looking much like she did in the 2010's and wearing a tour dance outfit. The two Swifts drink shots as they sing the first chorus together. The "current" Swift plays a koi fish acoustic guitar like the one used by the real Taylor on the Speak Now World Tour, while her younger self smashes a copy of the same guitar on the floor, and then criticizes the weight of the current version. The two Swifts are then seen in a bathroom, with a photograph of Marjorie Finlay, Taylor's grandmother, appearing in the background. Depressed, the current Swift steps onto a scale, and a shot of its dial shows it reading "Fat", which makes the younger and happier Swift shake her head in disapproval. We then see a third version of Swift, this one appearing as a giant, crawling into a neighbor's dinner party as the second verse begins. A party guest makes an attempt to subdue the giant Swift by using a bow and arrow to shoot her in the shoulder, but this is unsuccessful, with the giant Swift responding with a look of shock and disbelief, before she eats the guests' food alone glumly.
The dialog part of the video is played out during the song's bridge, which describes Swift's dream about her own funeral, attended by her sons Preston (Mike Birbiglia) and Chad (John Early), the latter arriving from Ibiza for the occasion, and her daughter-in-law Kimber (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), whom Chad implicates in the apparent murder of Swift. A "narrator" Swift peeks out from inside the coffin of her elder self, then escapes from it unnoticed. The three attendees learn, by reading Swift's last will and testament, that Swift has left them with thirteen cents each and bequeathed most of her assets including a beach house to Benjamin, Meredith and Olivia, her cats. The attendees believe that Swift has left a secret message encoded in the will, because "that's what Mum would always do", a reference to Taylor's "Easter eggs", and so they continue reading the will, but they find nothing other than what it has previously stated. This leads to the attendees bickering over who has capitalized on Swift's name the most, through ways that include releasing a podcast and a book and wearing her old clothes. When Chad accuses Kimber of pushing Swift off a balcony to her death, it leads to the ceremony ending in a brawl. The final scene shows the younger and current Swifts sitting on a rooftop. They offer a bottle of wine to the giant Swift, who is happy to accept it.
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