Taylor Swift is all about bringing people together. Just hours after her 11th studio album debuted to praise from her millions of fans worldwide, the "Bad Blood" singer, 34, dropped an accompanying music video for "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone from The Tortured Poets Department . While fans expected to see the "Sunflower" singer in the video, they certainly didn't predict that Swift would host a Dead Poets Society reunion for the project.
Nevertheless, Swift, who wrote and directed the music video, welcomed Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles into her world. She cast the men, who starred in the 1989 flick (catch that Easter Egg, Swifties?), as scientists examining her after a love affair goes wrong. Throughout the video, the relationship between Swift and Post is shown from its face tattoo-free inception all the way until it leads to the psychiatric ward.
After the music video's release, Swift took to Instagram to share details about the idea for the video. "When I was writing the 'Fortnight' music video, I wanted to show you the worlds I saw in my head that served as the backdrop for making this music," she wrote. "Pretty much everything in it is a metaphor or a reference to one corner of the album or another.
For me, this video turned out to be the perfect visual representation of this record and the stories I tell in it." "@postmalone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I'm so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration," she added. "I'm stil.