Taylor Swift has launched the music video for “Fortnight” that includes Put up Malone from her new album, The Tortured Poets Division. The monitor is the primary single from the report, which the singer launched early Friday.
Within the footage, Swift and Put up Malone play ex-lovers, with the latter attempting to avoid wasting the singer who seems trapped in her personal area. At one level, Swift additionally seemingly has matching face tattoos as Put up Malone. By the tip of the video, Swift is breaking free, burning poems and breaking home windows.
“After I was writing the Fortnight music video, I wished to indicate you the worlds I noticed in my head that served because the backdrop for making this music,” the singer wrote on Instagram amid the music video’s launch. “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. @postmalone 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.”
Elsewhere within the footage, Useless Poets Society stars Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles additionally make cameos as what look like scientists with Swift as their check topic.
“I’m nonetheless laughing from attending to work with the best guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the corridor, the lifeless poets),” Swift added in her put up.
Forward of the discharge of the “Fortnight” music video, Swift shared on Instagram, “I’ve been such an enormous fan of Put up due to the author he’s, his musical experimentation and people melodies he creates that simply stick in your head ceaselessly. I acquired to witness that magic come to life firsthand once we labored collectively.”
The Tortured Poets Division dropped on Friday. The album, the eleventh of Swift’s profession, options 16 songs. Two hours after the preliminary launch, Swift launched a “double album” growth of the report, titled The Anthology, that featured 15 extra songs.
“It’s a 2am shock: The Tortured Poets Division is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I’d written a lot tortured poetry up to now 2 years and wished to share all of it with you, so right here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 additional songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”
Lower than 24 hours after its launch, Tortured Poets broke a number of data on Spotify, turning into the audio large’s most-streamed album in a single day. Swift additionally grew to become the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify historical past.
On Tuesday, Swift teased the “Fortnight” music video with a clip of “The TTPD Timetable” that includes an viewers POV tour of a schoolhouse setting, with a calendar noting the video’s drop on April 19. On Thursday, she wrote beneath a second tease, “At this listening to, I stand earlier than my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Division with a abstract of my findings.”
On the time of the preliminary album’s launch, Swift referred to the report as “an anthology of latest works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time – one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
“This era of the writer’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up,” she continued. “There may be nothing to avenge, no scores to settle as soon as wounds have healed. And upon additional reflection, a very good variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This author is of the agency perception that our tears turn out to be holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as now we have spoken our saddest story, we may be freed from it. After which all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Spotify additionally revealed on Thursday that the album grew to become probably the most pre-saved album Countdown Web page within the historical past of the audio streamer.
The singer-songwriter first introduced the album’s launch in February on the Grammy Awards, the place she took house trophies for greatest pop vocal album and greatest album for her 2022 launch, Midnights.
“That is my thirteenth Grammy,” Swift mentioned when accepting the pop vocal album award, acknowledging her proclaimed fortunate quantity. “I wish to say thanks to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this manner, however I do know that the way in which that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the fervour of the followers. So I wish to say ‘thanks’ to the followers by telling you a secret that I’ve been holding from you for the final two years — which is that my model new album comes out April 19.”