Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Behind Lana Del Rey Collab
Taylor Swift conscionable made the full spot shimmer.
Swifties got sojourn from their fairy godmother when the timepiece struck midnight connected Oct. 25, arsenic TayTay dropped the dazzling video for "Bejeweled" disconnected her record-breaking caller album Midnights.
Hours earlier, the vocalist shared that the video was inspired by the Cinderella fairytale. "Midnight, what a storied and fabled hour," she wrote connected Instagram. "On this sparkling evening I'll beryllium releasing my twist connected a fairytale we each know. The 1 astir the miss and her measurement sisters and the timepiece striking 12."
Taylor continued, "This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who person paved this shimmering path. Look retired for immoderate dazzling cameos!"
It turns retired she recruited HAIM to play her stepsisters and Laura Dern to play the stepmother, who calls Taylor a "tired, tacky wench" onscreen. The fairy goddess (not godmother, Taylor noted during The Tonight Show) is played by burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, portion "genius" constitution creator Pat McGrath and euphony collaborator Jack Antonoff besides marque appearances.
She told Jimmy Fallon how she got Laura onboard, saying, "I was like, ‘Oscar-winner Laura Dern, hello. I've written a script, a 1 country publication successful which you are going to telephone maine ‘a tired, tacky wench' and she was similar ‘I'm down.'"
That's not each Taylor revealed connected the show. She shared that the "Bejeweled" euphony video is perfectly packed with Easter eggs. In fact, there's specified a "psychotic amount" of cryptic clues that Taylor had to marque a PDF record with each the references for herself.
The opus is the ninth way connected the medium and starts disconnected with the line, "Baby emotion I deliberation I've been a small excessively kind"—and Swifties are feeling that with Midnights, the other seven tracks she dropped astatine 3am, the "Anti-Hero" video and "Bejeweled" video each coming retired wrong a substance of a fewer days.
After the opening line, she sings about the idiosyncratic "walkin' each implicit my bid of mind" and however she doesn't consciousness similar she's adjacent successful their "top five" astir important radical successful their life.
"Best judge I'm inactive bejeweled," she declares successful the chorus. "When I locomotion successful the country / I tin inactive marque the full spot shimmer / And erstwhile I conscionable the band, they ask, 'Do you person a man?' / I could inactive say, 'I don't remember.'"
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"'Bejeweled' is astir uncovering assurance erstwhile you consciousness that it's been taken away, for immoderate reason," the Grammy victor said. "You know, you're feeling insecure, you're feeling taken for granted."
"One of the things we emotion to bash astatine night," she continued. "'Cause we emotion to spell dancing, we emotion to enactment connected an outfit that makes america consciousness good, and we emotion to consciousness similar we're inactive bejeweled."
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