Taylor Swift, Post Malone Go Mad in Stunning ‘Fortnight’ Video With Ethan Hawke Cameo

Taylor Swift has dropped the first video for her album The Tortured Poets Department . Single “Fortnight” features Post Malone, who also appears in the video.

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The scene begins with Swift waking up in a white gown and chained to a bed in a topsy turvy asylum. Soon, however, the video cuts to clips of the singer wiping her face to reveal tattoos etched across her skin to her and Malone in a stark white room filled with typewriters. Seemingly telling the tale of star-crossed lovers, the duo find themselves in surreal settings from embracing on a lone highway as they’re caught in a tornado of loose paper to an eerie lab where Ethan Hawke plays a bespectacled scientist.

Swift praised Post Malone on Instagram the day before releasing her new album. “I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever,” she wrote . “I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on ‘Fortnight.'”

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Post Malone has been having a big year working with the pop girls. He made an appearance as part of the “astrology council” in Jennifer Lopez’s film This Is Me… Now , alongside Jane Fonda, Kim Petras, and Keke Palmer. He also appeared on Beyoncé’s country album Cowboy Carter , duetting with the singer on “Levii’s Jeans.”

Swift’s Tortured Poets is her 11th album, following 2022’s Midnights . Two hours after releasing the album on Friday morning, she surprised fans with 15 new songs declaring that it is actually a double album . “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift announced on Instagram. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology . 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

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