She is known for sharing her romantic difficulties (and settling scores) through her songs.
And Taylor Swift’s latest hit has once again revealed the pain of her broken relationships, with a little help from American actors Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles.
The video for Swift’s song Fortnight, the lead single from her new album The Tortured Poets Department, sent her millions of fans into a frenzy when it was posted to YouTube early Friday.
It’s the 34-year-old singer’s first album since the breakup of her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, and he is the suspected target of much of her ire on songs like So Long, London.
Even the album’s title, his first since 2022’s Midnights, is a mocking take on a WhatsApp group Alwyn shares with actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called Tortured Man Club.
Matty Healy, the leader of the ‘bad boy’ of The 1975, with whom Swift had a brief affair, does not escape either: the Swifties (the nickname of the singer’s most devoted fans) believe that he is the inspiration behind the song The Smallest ManWho. Ever lived.
Taylor Swift’s latest hit has once again revealed the pain of her broken relationships (pictured: Swift in the Fortnight music video)
The video for Swift’s song Fortnight, the lead single from her new album The Tortured Poets Department, sent her millions of fans into a frenzy when it was posted to YouTube early Friday.
A doctor walks in with a bottle of pills labeled: “Forget it.” Mrs. Swift takes a pill and is released
Will you join the singer’s 14-day video challenge? To mark the release of the Fortnight video, the singer also shared on YouTube Shorts 14 short video clips from her life over the past two weeks, including one of her enjoying a cocktail (pictured).
Behind the scenes with Ethan Hawke while making the video for Fortnight, the first single from his eleventh studio album.
Swift sports an elaborate facial tattoo similar to that of American rapper Post Malone, with whom she duets on Fortnight.
Swift wants her fans to post 14 clips of what they did in the past few weeks, such as a game of pickleball (pictured).
A billionaire singing star needs to relax, and what better way than to exhale the smoke of a fancy cocktail?
By working out, and the 5-foot-10-inch Swift can show off legs supposedly insured for a whopping $40 million.
The singer said the album was an anthology of new works reflecting “events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting, fatalistic moment in time, one that was both sensational and painful in equal measure.” He went on to say that that period of his life was over and added: ‘The chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds have healed. Once we have told our saddest story, we can be free of it.’
His skill at his job is to keep fans guessing about hidden messages, and so it was with the release of the video for Fortnight, in which he performs a duet with American rapper Post Malone.
The video hints that Swift found love so difficult that it drove her crazy. She appears to be in an asylum and is seen lying on a bed with no mattress while she is chained to the railing.
A doctor walks in with a bottle of pills labeled: “Forget it.” Mrs. Swift takes a pill and is released. Hawke and Charles play scientists while Swift is hooked to a table in scenes reminiscent of Frankenstein.
To commemorate the release of the Fortnight video, the singer also shared on YouTube Shorts 14 short video clips of her life over the past two weeks, including one of her enjoying a cocktail and another of her at the gym. She challenged fans to follow her example by copying her #ForAFertnight challenge.