Taylor Swift Debuts a New Surprised Face After Winning Song of the Year at the CMAs
One of the hallmarks of “Old” Taylor Swift is her surprised face. You know what I’m talking about: It’s the wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression Swift made every time she scooped up an award between 2007 and 2014. The surprised face was endearing at first—because it seemed genuine—but as the years went on, some people grew skeptical of it. Swift even mocked the face in her “Look What You Made Me Do” video—and perfectly captured people’s feelings about it when she had one of her clones say, “You can’t possibly be that surprised all the time.”
Well, she can be, but the face is changing. Exhibit A: Last night’s Country Music Awards, when Swift, unsurprisingly, won Song of the Year for “Better Man” (which she wrote for the band Little Big Town). Swift wasn’t at the actual ceremony because she has Saturday Night Live rehearsals, but a friend filmed her reaction to finding out she won the big award. And her surprised face was—well, just have a look at it yourself:
It’s different, right? Instead of widening her eyes and placing her hands over her mouth, New Taylor stares at her friend intently and cocks her head. It’s the expression you made in math class when you studied all night but recognized nothing on the exam. Or the face you made when your best friend told you she’s getting back together with her scrub ex-boyfriend. It’s quite literally the face Aubrey Plaza makes in this (haunting) Parks and Recreation GIF.
In other words, it’s intense—like Swift gave her surprised face the “Bad Blood” treatment or something. But isn’t that the Reputation era in a nutshell? Even the surprised face gets a makeover.
Old Taylor might really be dead, after all…because New Surprised Face Taylor killed her. (Kidding.)
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