Earlier today, Taylor Swift dropped the music video for her latest single, "You Need to Calm Down."
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The super-colorful video slams anti-gay and anti-trans bigotry, and ultimately encourages viewers to sign her Change.org petition for Senate support of the Equality Act.
There are also a TON of celeb cameos, including Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Reynolds, Queer Eye's Fab Five, Laverne Cox, and Ciara.
The video's already racked up more than 5 million views in less than 7 hours, so it's safe to say everyone and their mama's been watching it, processing it, and critiquing it.
Speaking of critiques, here's one that I noticed circulating on Twitter: Taylor's "You Need to Calm Down" is a direct rip-off of Beyoncé's "Party" video.
#YouNeedToCalmDown would be a beautiful (yet opportunistic) salute to the LGBT community if it weren’t a direct rip-off of Beyoncé’s #Party video 🧐
(This video.)
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#Beyonce had left over props from her Party video... it’s nice she is letting the girls use her things. 💅🏿
Beyonce's music video for "Party" has what "You Need to Calm Down" wishes it had...
Some folks pointed to specific shots, like this pool floatie moment...
If Taylor Swift wants people to stop accusing her of ripping off Beyoncé, maybe she should quit ripping off Beyoncé. Her whole “above-ground pool party in a trailer park” vibe cribs a lot of shots from Bey’s “Party” video. This is just one example.
...while others called out the entire video.
all of the photo stills from Taylor swifts new music video look like Beyoncé’s party video mixed with a lil Feeling myself video.
These claims come only a month after Taylor's Billboard Music Awards "Me" performance, which people said looked an AWFULLLL lot like Beyoncé's Homecoming/Beychella performance.
TS: Beyoncé can I copy your homework? Bey: Sure just change it up a little so it doesn’t look obviously