Taylor Swift show fans another side of his creative process with never-before-seen footage from his set “Fortnight” music video.. The featurette shows the Swift directory modeexplain the shots and come up with Easter eggs on the fly.
The video opens with a stunt, where Swift tries to put a wheelchair through a mirror. Instead of breaking the glass, the cart ricochets backwards as Swift looks surprised and then breaks down laughing.
“It really occurred to me that it happened in the ‘Department of Tortured Poets’ which is a government municipal building that studies the behavior and thoughts of poets,” he explained. “One of the stereotypes about poets over the years is that people say they’re crazy.”
“Fortnight” features Post Malone is the first single from Swift’s 11th studio album, titled Department of Tortured Poets. The music video shows Swift as institutionalized and as a department employee alongside Malone. At one point in their relationship, the duo face each other on a typewriter.
In a new behind-the-scenes clip, the “Sunflower” singer looks surprised as she learns to use a typewriter to take pictures.
“All you do is move? This is amazing,” Gushes as Swift shows him how the machine works. “I think it’s very steampunk.”
Swift replied, “We don’t see typewriters being used! Millennials don’t see that s**t.”
Malone immediately announced that he was going to buy his own typewriter “right now.”
Swift, sing wrote and directed the videothen cut the scene to his partner, explaining the moment they would look up from the table and look at each other.
“It’s almost like when you realize that you and someone else are having the same thought in your head at the same time,” he said. Malone was happy to oblige, replying “Yes, ma’am” to almost everything Swift said.
“It’s all about visual effects that become something else,” he later noted. “White out and then it will be an overhead shot of us like laying, face to face in a pile of paper on the highway. The pile of paper makes like the shape of my side profile in a cameo. All this is one strange thing. thing becomes another.”
“The thing I like about being on set is sometimes you like to figure out a shot two seconds before you do it and like that it makes all the difference,” he said. “We were gonna just be standing there staring at each other, you know, laying on the floor, but I was like, ‘What about books?’ And then I put an easter egg in the book that’s fun if you come here it forces you to go into more detail about what you’re doing and I’m really glad that happened.
The hidden message appears to be the word “We” written in large letters on the back of the notebook. There, Swift’s ex Tour of Eras introduction, Gracie Abramsdown new song titled “Kita” featuring Swift.
The full music video includes many other visual surprises, including the appearance of Dead Poets Society star Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke.
Swift previously revealed the meaning of “Fortnight” lyrics during the iHeartRadio premiere special.
“I think it’s a very fatalistic album in there are lots of very dramatic lines about life or death and I love you, it’s ruining my life. This is very hyperbolic, it’s dramatic to say,” he shared. “But that’s what the album is about – it’s about drama, it’s artistic, it’s tragic about love and loss.”
Swift added that she “always imagined” that “Fortnight” took place in “an American town where the American dream you think is going to happen.”
“You’re finally not with the person you love and now you have to live with it every day, wondering what’s going to happen, maybe seeing them go out,” he said. “And that’s a pretty tragic concept, really. So I’m just writing from that perspective.”
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