In case you’ve at all times questioned what Taylor Swift would appear like with Submit Malone‘s face tattoos, “Fortnight” is the video for you.
On Friday evening (April 19), Swift unveiled the video for “Fortnight,” that includes Malone. It’s the primary visible from her brand-new eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, and it goes alongside the undertaking’s first single, co-written by Swift, Malone and Jack Antonoff and co-produced by Swift and Antonoff.
Within the trippy video, Submit’s tattoos find yourself on Taylor’s face as she seems to wipe her face clear, solely to disclose a face filled with ink as a substitute. In obvious flashback scenes, each of the musicians are fresh-faced, as Swift runs into the arms of a tattoo-free Malone.
Echoing the track’s lyrical references to establishment (just like the opening line: “I used to be alleged to be despatched away/ However they forgot to come back and get me”), the video reveals Swift’s character going by means of electrotherapy and making an attempt to interrupt out of an all-white room.
Watch the video under:
Swift took to her social media accounts after the video’s launch to marvel on the completed product and the collaborators who helped her obtain it.
“Once I was writing the Fortnight music video, I wished to point out you the worlds I noticed in my head that served because the backdrop for making this music,” she wrote. “Just about every part 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 right visible illustration of this report and the tales I inform in it. Submit Malone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for every part he put into this collaboration. I’m nonetheless laughing from attending to work with the good guys on earth, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the corridor, the lifeless poets). I nonetheless can’t imagine I get to work with the unfathomably sensible Rodrigo Prieto on cinematography and my workforce of dream collaborators: Ethan Tobman (manufacturing design), Chancler Haynes (editor), Anthony Dimino (1st AD), Jil Hardin (producer) and Dom Thomas (govt producer). Parliament aced the VFX as at all times. Joseph Cassell, Lorrie Turk and Jemma Muradian made these tortured appears come to life. Your entire crew made this a dream to shoot. Thanks to everybody concerned and everybody who has watched it!!”
Swift introduced “Fortnight” as the primary single early Thursday, the day earlier than the album’s arrival. “The primary single from The Tortured Poets Division is…………. Fortnight that includes @postmalone,” Swift wrote on X. “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 perpetually. I acquired to witness that magic come to life firsthand after we labored collectively on Fortnight.”
Shortly after Swift introduced The Tortured Poets Division on the 2024 Grammys in February, Malone was revealed to be one among solely two options on the monitor record (the opposite being Florence + The Machine on “Florida!!!”). Final 12 months, earlier than their collaboration had been introduced, Malone recalled operating into Swift in an interview with Howard Stern and exchanging compliments. “We have been simply passing by and she or he was like, ‘Oh my God! Good to see you. “Higher Now” is f—in’ superb!’” Malone stated Swift instructed him. “And I used to be like, ‘What? That’s f—in’ loopy, you’re an important f—in’ songwriter! Thanks so very a lot.’”