The Taylor Swift drops simply hold coming.
At midnight, Swift launched her eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Division” — after which introduced two hours later that it’s a shock double album, leaving informal followers and Swifites alike to spend the day decoding who the songs are about. (What number of Friday afternoon Slack messages have been dedicated to parsing if a tune was about Swift exes Joe Alwyn or Matty Healy?) After which got here the album’s first music video for single “Fortnite,” co-written by and that includes Submit Malone.
Along with “Lifeless Poets Society” (word that neither title makes use of an apostrophe) alums Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, the music video boasts one other massive title: Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (“Killers of the Flower Moon”).
This isn’t the primary time Prieto (at least Martin Scorsese’s frequent cinematographer, who shot “The Wolf of Wall Road,” “Silence,” “The Irishman,” and “Flower Moon”) has collaborated with Swift. The cinematographer beforehand labored on the 2020 music movies for Swift’s songs “The Man,” “Cardigan,” and “Willow.” Right here, the video is filmed in attractive black and white as Swift strikes from a seeming psychological establishment — a recurring theme on the album — to an workplace to a spherical of electroshock remedy full with a sparking crown.
All through the video (written and directed by Swift), she and Submit Malone are in a tortured romance, surviving on fleeting appears and occasional tender touches as they battle to discover a option to totally join. Prieto’s black-and-white cinematography is deep and plush, offering a setting for Swift’s lyrics (“I really like you, it’s ruining my life”), which showcase the doomed romanticism of the album’s opening monitor.
With 31 tracks on “The Tortured Poets Division: Anthology,” we — and Swift — have solely simply begun to dig into the album’s prospects, however critics have largely been effusive in reward of Swift’s most grownup and autobiographical album but. And if nothing else, the video for “Fortnight” presents up one more likelihood for these dedicated to the Grammy winner to dig into Easter eggs (did you see the black canine within the body, absolutely a reference to tune “The Black Canine”?)
Watch the video beneath.