Taylor Swift's new music video is an elaborate cyborg showdown

Taylor Swift.
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No, really, are you ready for it?

Taylor Swift released the music video for the second single off her upcoming album Reputation on Friday, and it's a doozy. The clip for " ... Ready For It?" follows two versions of Swift — one shrouded in a dark cloak and hood, and one a metamorphosing android — as they face off inside a concrete bunker. Becloaked Swift appears to be bested by her cyborg counterpart in the Joseph Kahn-directed production, which calls back to such robotic films as Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Ex Machina.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.