One of the best decisions Taylor Swift has made in his career was to dispense with Joseph Kahn as director of his video clips. The author of classics two thousands such as ‘Toxic’ (Britney Spears), ‘Freeek’ (George Michael) or ‘Without Me’ (Eminem) seems to have been aesthetically anchored at the beginning of the century. The fact that lately he has resumed his film career and has been spacing his musical works may have to do with that decline: the video clips simply care less and less.
After taking care of the last Christmas specials of Mariah Carey, the director has signed the new video clip of the diva. The impression when seeing it, both for the song and for visual realization, is to have receded a quarter of a century over time. If that was the intention, ‘Type Dangerous’ works perfectly: an profusion of stylized plans with slow and fan chamber, aesthetics of “luxury and glamor” focused on constantly highlighting the enjayada figure of Mariah, very two milea animation inserts and cameo of the conjunctural famous, the businessman YouTuber Mrbecast.
Narratively, ‘Type Dangerous’ is divided into seven acts, each dedicated to a different “dangerous type”. The video clip follows the generic codes of the thriller to the 007, but reformulated in a festive and feminist key: casino intrigue, automobile persecutions, dramatic turns (betrayals), action sequences and comic counterpoints (such as the appearance of MRBAST). All very old and with a certain feeling of Déjà Vu: does not remember Mariah’s entry into the Casino to ‘It’s Like That’, makes twenty years ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_npe8d6n8qu
