The Taylor Swift drops simply maintain coming.
At midnight, Swift launched her eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” — 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. (How many Friday afternoon Slack messages had been dedicated to parsing if a music was about Swift exes Joe Alwyn or Matty Healy?) And then got here the album’s first music video for single “Fortnite,” co-written by and that includes Post Malone.
In addition to “Dead Poets Society” (word that neither title makes use of an apostrophe) alums Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, the music video boasts one other huge identify: Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (“Killers of the Flower Moon”).
This isn’t the primary time Prieto (a minimum of Martin Scorsese’s frequent cinematographer, who shot “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “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.” 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.
Throughout the video (written and directed by Swift), she and Post Malone are in a tortured romance, surviving on fleeting seems to be and occasional tender touches as they battle to discover a strategy to totally join. Prieto’s black-and-white cinematography is deep and plush, offering a setting for Swift’s lyrics (“I love you, it’s ruining my life”), which showcase the doomed romanticism of the album’s opening monitor.
With 31 tracks on “The Tortured Poets Department: 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” gives up one more probability 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 music “The Black Dog”?)
Watch the video under.
