Meet Taylor Swift at midnight and you’ll be greeted with the newest piece to her pop puzzle: Midnights, the visible album. Since its launch, the album period has moved forward with massive chart streaks and hit radio singles, however in the midst of the nightmare Eras tour ticketing fiasco, the singer’s visual master plan has been considerably sidelined. Now, she’s setting issues again on monitor with the music video for “Lavender Haze.”
In the video premiered Thursday, which is written and directed by Swift, the singer is seen laying in mattress along with her accomplice whereas a report performs in the background. As she sits up, a cloud hangs over her head, and after lighting a match, an eerie “haze” fills the room. The scene cuts to Swift in her front room watching her lover as a weatherman on tv as she sings, “All they preserve asking me is that if I’m gonna be your bride/ The solely form of lady they see is a one evening or a spouse.”
Soon the room is full of literal lavender as she strikes in the direction of the tv and pulls it aside to disclose a cosmic aquarium. Swift floats in a purple pool, and the surreal video ends with the singer in a floating lilac cloud.
Swift first previewed the “Lavender Haze” video in a teaser trailer compiling clips from all of the music movies she made for Midnights.
Shaking off the backlash, Swift shared the shimmering visible for “Bejeweled,” a shallowness anthem filled with optimistic affirmations. In the video, she slips into the position of Cinderella, with HAIM stepping in as her imply stepsisters and Laura Dern as her evil stepmother. With Dita Von Teese as her fairy godmother, Swift stuns the group at a expertise present, together with the prince she received over earlier than ghosting him utterly.
The Midnights visuals have featured a solid of particular friends from Dern, the HAIM sisters, and Von Teese to Jack Antonoff, Mike Birbiglia, Pat McGrath, and extra.
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