On...The Second Countdown
- serrendipity
- Jun 1
- 2 min read
OF COURSE I spent all morning working on the previous post, thinking there'd be weeks until we get an announcement or confirmation of some sort, only to find out it's less than 20 minutes from now?
Three things to note here -- well, maybe 4:
The mobile site looks very different than the desktop site. The mobile site features the clouds & the countdown, and Jessie is much smaller. The desktop site (above) features this beautiful landscape shot and Jessie is much more prominent.
On a related note, this is the second time Jessie has appeared in the promo for this collab.
The billboard is also here, which is...interesting. Are we supposed to view the billboard as advertising something in this world? Is this some sort of meta-textual reference?
Finally -- the aesthetic of the landscape is unique, and made me instantly think of Toy Story 2.
The colors of the landscape are similar, and even the farmhouse aesthetic matches the interior shots we see (although it is limited only to Emily's bedroom). The watercolor look also matches the western / horse backdrop Emily uses to play with Jessie:
The hill the billboard is now on kinda matches the hill Emily & Jessie used to swing on, although there's now a house in front of it. But even the winding path is there in both...
While I can absolutely imagine a young Taylor Swift singing "When She Loved Me" when the movie came out, I can't think that all of this is simply for Taylor covering that song. (Although maybe there's a cover in the Debut Vault?) That would also mean she would be ineligible for an Original Song Oscar (if that's what we're going for).
What if Jessie's original owner, Emily, comes back into play somehow? The connection to Jessie seems too significant...and maybe this connects to the hypothetical song structure Taylor mentioned in the NYT interview? Although rather than mother/daughter, Emily would be a grandmother by now...? She seems to be a teenager in the 70s, and if Bonnie is getting an "iPad," that would be roughly modern-day.
Does Jessie somehow end up back where she "started" with Emily? The location could be the same, even if Emily is no longer part of the story...
Only 3 minutes until we (maybe) know for sure!
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