Taylor Swift has released the video for the track “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone, taken from her new album “The Tortured Poets Department”. This song is the first single from the album, which the singer released last Friday.
In the video, Swift and Post Malone play ex-lovers, with the latter trying to save the singer, who seems to be trapped in her own space. At one point, Swift also appears to have matching facial tattoos with Post Malone. At the end of the video, Swift breaks free, burns poems and breaks windows.
Elsewhere in the video, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, stars of “Dead Poets Society,” also make cameos as what appear to be scientists, with Swift as their test subject.
“I’m still laughing at having had the opportunity to work with the coolest guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tormented poets, meet your colleagues in the next room, dead poets),” Swift added in her post.
Ahead of the release of the music video for “Fortnight,” Swift shared on Instagram, “I’ve been a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stay in your head forever. I had the opportunity to witness that magic come to life first hand when we worked together.”
“The Tortured Poets Department” was released on Friday. The album, the eleventh of Swift’s career, features 16 tracks. Two hours after the initial release, Swift released a “double-album” expansion of the album, titled “The Anthology,” which featured 15 more songs.
“It’s a 2 a.m. surprise: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I had written so much tormented poetry in the last 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here is the second installment of ‘TTPD’: ‘The Anthology’. 15 bonus tracks. And now the story is no longer mine… it’s all yours.”
Less than 24 hours after its release, “The Tortured Poets Department” broke multiple records on Spotify, becoming the audio giant’s most played album in a single day. Swift also became the most played artist in a single day in Spotify history.
On Tuesday, Swift previewed the music video for “Fortnight” with a clip from “The ‘TTPD’ Schedule,” featuring an audience view of a tour of a school stage, with a timeline indicating the video’s April 19 release. On Thursday, he wrote under a second topic : “At this hearing, I stand before my fellow members of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ with a summary of my findings.”
At the time of the album’s initial release, Swift referred to the album as “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time, one that was both sensational and painful in equal measure.”
The singer-songwriter first announced the album release in February at the Grammy Awards, where she took home trophies for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Album for her 2022 release, “Midnights.”
“This is my 13th Grammy,” Swift said as she accepted the award for pop vocal album, acknowledging her proclaimed lucky number. “I want to thank the members of the Recording Academy for voting this way, but I know that the way the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans. So I want to say ‘thank you’ to the fans by telling them a secret I’ve been keeping from them for the past two years, which is that my new album comes out on April 19.”
