Taylor Swift kicked off the New Year by releasing her video for Out Of The Woods.
The video opens with shots of Auckland’s Bethells Beach in New Zealand, which caused controversy when the video was filmed back in November because some environmentalists felt the crew put a rare local bird, the dotterels, in danger. The crew brought 12 trucks onto the beach, more than they were permitted, but local officials did confirm after the fact that no birds were harmed while Swift was shooting on the beach.
Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer was furious that the shoot turned into a controversy. “Auckland Council has spent thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of ratepayer dollars coming up with a supposedly film-friendly policy, and just when we get the world’s biggest music star filming at Bethells Beach, she’s publicly humiliated,” he stated.
The video was also filmed in the Southern Alps and Queenstown, New Zealand, and both seemed to go much more smoothly than the Bethells shoot.
Check out the video below:
