Taylor Swift gave followers a brand new perspective on The Tortured Poets Division within the album’s first music video for “Fortnight.”
The singer, 34, dropped the video at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, April 19, simply hours after the discharge of her eleventh studio album.
The black-and-white video opens with Swift chained to a mattress body in a hospital room. The scene then transitions into a number of conditions the place Swift and Malone seem as star-crossed lovers whereas she sings a few intense love affair.
Malone isn’t the one celebrity to look in “Fortnight,” as actor Ethan Hawke made a shock cameo as a lab employee.
Earlier this week, Swift teased the timetable for the album in an Easter egg-filled Instagram video, which confirmed a calendar that confirmed the music video. Beneath the announcement, followers seen 14 tally marks, resulting in theories that the music video would both be for the album’s 14th music, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” or for her “Fortnight” collaboration with Submit Malone, the title of which alludes to 14 days.
Swift stunned the viewers on the 2024 Grammy Awards in February by divulging that she had a new album within the works. Later that month, she opened up concerning the behind-the-scenes course of of making the document.
“I wanted to make it. It was actually a lifeline for me,” she instructed the gang at certainly one of her Melbourne, Australia, live shows. “It type of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that truly will get me via life, and I’ve by no means had an album the place I’ve wanted songwriting greater than I wanted it on Tortured Poets.”
Within the months main as much as the album’s launch, Swift seemingly hinted on a number of events that the songs would deal with her break up from Joe Alwyn. (Information broke in April 2023 that the pair had known as it quits after six years of relationship.)
Earlier this month, Swift created Apple Music playlists from her present catalog that described the 5 levels of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, despair and acceptance. Followers rapidly seen that almost all of the tracks featured on denial’s “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life Songs” playlist have been impressed by her romance with Alwyn, 33.
“It is a checklist of songs about getting so caught up within the concept of one thing that you’ve a tough time seeing the pink flags, probably leading to moments of denial [and] delusion,” she defined. “Outcomes might range.”
Followers subsequently acknowledged a number of references to Alwyn at Swift’s Tortured Poets Division library pop-up in Los Angeles, together with six open drawers out of 72 — seemingly a nod to her six-year relationship with Alwyn — and dried lavender — which may level to “Lavender Haze,” a Midnights monitor rumored to be written about Alwyn.
After her break up from Alwyn, Swift had a short romance with musician Matty Healy, which Us confirmed had fizzled out in June 2023 after two months collectively. She then moved on with Travis Kelce, whom she started relationship in the summertime of 2023. Earlier this month, the couple proved they’re nonetheless going robust whereas attending Coachella on Saturday, April 13.