Taylor Swift Is a Saucy, ‘Bejeweled’ Cinderella in New Music Video

Having not launched a second of music or video imagery from “Midnights” previous to that album’s launch 4 nights in the past, Taylor Swift is making up for misplaced time. She’s launched the second music video for a music from the album simply days after the primary, with “Bejeweled” hitting the Swift-isphere scorching on the heels of “Anti-Hero” on the stroke of 12 (ET) Monday evening. Watch the total clip, which co-stars Laura Dern, Dita von Teese and the three Haim sisters, beneath.

It’s a Cinderella story, though a prince — performed briefly by producer/author Jack Antonoff — figures into it much more briefly than in most variations of the fairy story. Swift performs “Home Wench Taylor,” who first seems as she is scrubbing up the vomit “Woman Este” (Este Haim) left behind after her drunken outing the evening earlier than. “Stepmommy” (Dern) and Women Alana and Danielle antagonize the struggling star much more rudely than in Disney’s variations — there’s no telling what Uncle Walt would have considered the promise of “diamond tassel nipples” — earlier than Swift transforms herself in a starfield made up of diamonds. She then ghosts the hardly glimpsed Antonoff, possibly all the higher to return to the enormous cocktail glasses she was cavorting in with “Fairy Goddess” von Teese.

In distinction to “Anti-Hero,” “Bejeweled,” as a music, is all about self-confidence, virtually as an act of counter-programming to the extremely touted self-effacement of the primary single. It’s a breakup music, or at the least a we-might-break-up music, but in addition the actually sparkliest quantity on the album, nearer to the shiny heights of a “Lover” observe like “Me” or “You Must Calm Down” than another tune on “Midnights.” Of all her songs about troubled relationships, it’s one of many least troubling. The message: She is enchanted to go away you.

However that lyrical content material has little to do with the music video, the place Swift finds one thing much more charming than a prince: an opportunity to tie in with a narrative centered on on her operating stroke-of-midnight theme.