I guess I just lost my balance': Taylor Swift plays little girl lost as she tries out edgier look in new music video I Knew You Were Trouble

She says the video is meant to depict a girl who changes everything about herself as she's falling in love.
And Taylor Swift seems to have jumped right into character to film the music video for her new single I Knew You Were Trouble.
The star, who turned 23 on Thursday, sports hot pink hair and an edgier style that's a marked departure from her usual good girl persona.

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Where am I? Taylor Swift wakes up abandoned in the middle of a desert in the opening of her new music video I Knew You Were Trouble

The nearly six-minute clip opens with Taylor waking up in a desert littered with trash from a rave that went into the early hours of the morning.

 

Flashbacks follow, of her meeting and then falling for a rock 'n' roll type guy while she delivers a monologue.

Little girl lost: The 23-year-old singer sports hot pink hair

Falling hard: Taylor flashes back to how she fell for the wrong guy

'I think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does.
'I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did - it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should.
'I knew he world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, "How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?" Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me.'

Who's that? Taylor meets her new man at a gas station

Good girl: At the start, she wears an embroidered sweater and lace top

The break-up anthem kicks in and the pair share a passionate romance, kissing on table tops and driving through the mountains top down with their hands in the air.
He takes her to concerts and instigates bar brawls; and in the quiet the lay in each other's arms.
Taylor, whose professed her love for looking like a Fifties housewife on at least one occasion, wears ripped T-shirts, leather boots and a bandage skirt in a few of several costume changes that track her character losing herself in the relationship.
Home alone: She strums a guitar while he looks on

Passionate: The pair share intimate embraces

'I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are,' she muses at the end of the clip, dropping a necklace he gave her.
The video premiered on MTV on Thursday.
The singer told the network the video is meant to reflect 'some sort of corruption'.

Freedom: Flashbacks to their romance show Taylor losing herself in the relationship

All mine: Taylor clings to her new love as they take a romantic drive through the mountains

'Good girl is living her life, going about her, you know, daily life and all of sudden she runs into this force. This guy is just like a force,' she explained.
'She'll do anything to fit into his world, including change everything about herself.'
Of course, one major question remains: who is it she's singing about?

One more kiss: Taylor holds on as their relationship unravels

In his arms: The pair fall asleep before things come to an end