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Taylor Swift is busy rehearsing for her upcoming tour, however she’s nonetheless ensuring to maintain the content material coming! At midnight on Jan. 27, she launched the third music video from the Midnights album, which got here out in October. The video was for the album’s opening monitor, “Lavender Haze,” and instructed the love story as sung by Taylor within the poppy music.
The video begins with Taylor laying in mattress subsequent to a hunky boyfriend. As she wakes and dances round in a t shirt and underwear, she conjures a cloud of purple haze across the Nineteen Seventies type bed room — full with retro turntable and bedside flip clock. She then crawls by way of a front room lined in lavender flowers to step by way of a tube television into….a galaxy of fish. And whereas it appears trippy, that’s as a result of it’s meant to be — bear in mind, we’re in a lavender haze.
The video’s most placing imagery, and one which will converse most to followers of Taylor’s placing type, is of the singer immersed in purple water — hair slicked again, lips deeply purple, and clothing-free physique surrounded by lavender petals.
“Lavender Haze” is likely one of the many love songs for Joe Alwyn on Midnights. The album is a glance again at among the many sleepless nights all through Taylor’s life, and a few of these sleepless nights have been impressed by falling in love together with her present beau, who she’s been relationship since 2016. Before Midnights got here out, Taylor revealed that she heard the time period “lavender haze” on an episode of Mad Men and was impressed to make use of it in a music.
“Lavender Haze” refers back to the interval once you’re falling deeply in love with somebody. Taylor sings about what she went by way of with Joe once they first received collectively, which was throughout a time when she was receiving plenty of criticism within the public eye. “I’ve been under scrutiny, you handle it beautifully, all this s*** is new to me,” she sings within the first verse. In the refrain, Taylor sings about wanting to remain within the “lavender haze” interval for so long as potential. In the second verse, she goes again to the concept Joe was by no means fazed by what the general public was saying about her. “I find it dizzying, they’re bringing up my history, but you weren’t even listening,” she croons.
Taylor beforehand launched movies for 2 different Midnights tracks, “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled,” however it’s been three months of ready for this subsequent installment to return out. Meanwhile, she’ll be hitting the street for her Eras tour on the finish of March, and has been arduous at work rehearsing for the present.
When Taylor celebrated her thirty third birthday in December, she additionally teased that she was spending the day within the studio together with her longtime collaborator, Jack Antonoff. While she didn’t specify what undertaking she was engaged on, followers are anxiously ready the discharge of 4 extra re-recorded albums from Taylor. In the “Bejeweled” music video, she dropped a number of hints that Speak Now could be the following re-recorded album to drop, however Taylor has not confirmed a launch date presently.