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Taylor Swift Blank Space Analysis
I related the song “Blank space” by Taylor Swift to Mary Anne Bell because when she went to Vietnam to visit her boyfriend Mark Fossie, her appearance was “she had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion like strawberry ice cream. Very friendly, too.”(93) and her first appearance tells us that she’s an innocent girl just by seeing that she has strawberry ice cream skin which symbolizes her innocence. After a few months, Mary Anne started going from an innocent girl to a girl “who is ready for the kill” and became one with Vietnam. “ ‘Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream”(Blank Space by Taylor Swift) also describes Mary Anne because she looked so innocent but yet she was a “nightmare” she wore a necklace of human tongue,
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