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Taylor Swift and Put up Malone try to get via a seemingly painful black-and-white period.
The music video for “Fortnight,” the lead single off Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album “Tortured Poets Department,” debuted on Friday evening. The duet options the 2 artists in varied states of melancholy reflection and despair, set in a dystopian and principally monochromatic world.
The video begins with Swift chained to a matressless iron mattress body in a white commentary room. After begrudgingly swallowing a “neglect him” capsule given to her by an orderly, Swift wipes her face with a towel, revealing Malone’s facial tattoos on her face within the mirror.
“And for a fortnight there we have been perpetually running to you/ Typically ask concerning the climate/ Now you’re in my yard, become good neighbors/ Your spouse waters flowers. I wanna kill her,” Swift sings darkly.
The 2 then sit at desks in an workplace – seemingly the titular “division” – surrounded by masked folks in all black, typing whereas they sing. The video quickly cuts to Swift and Malone standing face-to-tattooless-face on a stormy highway as papers swirl round them.
Swift is then proven strapped to a gurney with a mysterious electrical contraption connected to her head. Enjoying off her new album title, researchers portrayed by Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles – who appeared collectively within the 1989 movie “Useless Poets Society” – look at Swift.
“I’m nonetheless laughing from attending to work with the good guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the corridor, the lifeless poets),” Swift wrote Friday on social media about their cameos.
Finally, Swift breaks free. Papers burn, rain falls and the unusual but stunning video ends with Swift and Malone reaching for one another’s arms as she kneels on prime of a cellphone sales space.