Taylor Swift’s new single, “Fortnight,” from her newly launched double album, “The Tortured Poets Division,” is already caught in our heads and it now has a brand new music video to go together with it.
The award-winning singer launched the music video for “Fortnight,” which options Submit Malone, Friday night, following the album launch at midnight.
Try the music video under.
The video, which is in black and white, begins with Swift in a psych ward of kinds and wiping her face to disclose tattoos much like Submit Malone’s. Then in one other scene, she walks right into a room carrying a black Victorian mourning costume, the place others, together with Submit Malone, are typing on classic typewriters. She sorts the lyrics of the tune, “I like you, it is ruining my life.”
The video then takes viewers to clips of her and Submit Malone embracing as items of paper fall throughout them. The music video ends with Taylor Swift sitting on high of a payphone within the rain as Submit Malone reaches out to her from under.
Along with Submit Malone, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles seem within the music video. The duo starred within the 1989 movie, “Useless Poets Society.”
“Once I was writing the Fortnight music video, I needed to indicate you the worlds I noticed in my head that served because the backdrop for making this music,” Swift wrote in an Instagram publish concerning the music video. “Just about every little thing in it’s a metaphor or a reference to 1 nook of the album or one other.”
“For me, this video turned out to be the proper visible illustration of this report and the tales I inform in it,” she continued. “@postmalone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I am so grateful to him for every little thing he put into this collaboration. I am nonetheless laughing from attending to work with the good guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the corridor, the useless poets).”
Taylor Swift and Submit Malone seem on this screengrab from Swift’s music video, “Fortnight.”
Taylor Swift
She additionally thanked her crew behind the music video which included cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, manufacturing designer Ethan Tobman and editor Chancler Haynes.
“Your complete crew made this a dream to shoot,” Swift mentioned. “Thanks to everybody concerned and everybody who has watched it!!”
Hawke and Charles additionally took to Instagram and shared a photograph from the video.
Taylor Swift, Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke seem on this screengrab from Swift’s music video, “Fortnight.”
Taylor Swift
“I’ve admired Taylor for a very long time, however assembly her in particular person took my fandom to an entire new degree,” Charles mentioned in his publish. “Real, form, approachable, and simply an throughout stellar human being — To not point out a kick a– director as well!”
In his publish, Hawke wrote, “‘Todd’ & ‘Knox’ from DEAD POETS SOCIETY are actually PhDs in THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. It is fairly an honor.”
“Thanks @taylorswift for the chance to be within the music video in your tune FORTNIGHT feat. @postmalone,” he added.
Forward of the discharge of the music video, Swift shared a publish on Instagram with Submit Malone to announce “Fortnight” was the album’s first single.
“The primary single from The Tortured Poets Division is…………. Fortnight that includes @postmalone 🤍,” she captioned her publish earlier than happening to explain working with Submit.
She continued, “I’ve been such an enormous fan of Submit due to the author he’s, his musical experimentation and people melodies he creates that simply stick in your head endlessly.”
She added, “I received to witness that magic come to life firsthand once we labored collectively on Fortnight.”
Swift additionally teased a brief clip of the music video on Thursday afternoon, hours earlier than dropping “Tortured Poets Division.”
“At this listening to, I stand earlier than my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Division with a abstract of my findings,” she captioned the teaser.
Together with Swift’s collaboration with Submit Malone on her eleventh studio album, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine can be featured on the tune, “Florida!!!”
Learn extra about Swift’s newly launched album right here.
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