Taylor Swift Is Trapped in a Horror Movie in Her New Video, “Anti-Hero” | Dose.ca

Taylor Swift faces her worst fears in her brand-new video, “Anti-Hero,” which she describes as watching her “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.”

In the clip, written and directed by the singer herself, Swift faces a collection of horror film situations: she’s haunted by ghosts in her home, she meets the evil model of herself who encourages dangerous behaviour, and she or he transforms into an enormous who scares folks away.

The video culminates in a funeral scene, starring Search Party’s John Early, New Girl’s Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and comic Mike Birbiglia as Swift’s bratty youngsters who’re shocked to find she’s lower them out of her will and left her massive seaside home to a cat sanctuary.

“There’s probably a secret encoded message that means something else!” Early suggests, a nod to Swift followers’ obsessive scouring of her posts for clues. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s what mom would always do,” Birbiglia says earlier than studying from the desire, “P.S. There’s no secret encoded message that means something else. Love, Taylor.”

“Anti-Hero” is the primary single off her new album, Midnights, which she describes as “a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely.”

In what she describes as a “chaotic surprise,” Swift launched 7 surprising bonus tracks titled Midnights (3am version) within the wee hours of Friday morning, bringing the monitor itemizing to twenty. Explaining the bonus tracks, Swift tweeted, “I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”

“Anti-Hero” is the primary video from the star-studded visible album for Midnights that can be rolled out within the coming weeks/months, and can characteristic Laura Dern, Jack Antonoff, Laith Ashley, the Haim sisters, Pat McGrath, and Dita Von Teese.

Watch the video for “Anti-Hero” and hearken to Midnights under: