Taylor Swift Channels Cinderella In ‘Bejeweled’ Video As She Puts Her Twist On The Fairytale

Taylor Swift is conscionable keeping the gifts coming aft the merchandise of Midnights! After initially dropping the euphony video for “Anti-Hero,” Tay returned with different ocular conscionable days later. On Oct. 25, she shared the video for different opus from the album, “Bejeweled.” The visuals featured Taylor arsenic Cinderella and the HAIM sisters arsenic her evil step-sisters successful different twist connected the classical fairytale.

In the footage, Taylor starts retired cleaning the level arsenic she’s berated by her measurement sisters and stepmother, Laura Dern. She finds retired astir the upcoming ball, wherever idiosyncratic volition beryllium fixed a castle. Even though she’s not invited astatine the ball, Taylor attends anyway. First, though, she bonds with her fairy goddess, who’s played by Dita Von Teese. In the end, she gets the prince, Jack Antonoff, but she ghosts him to person the castle to herself.

Prior to dropping the video, Taylor teased the merchandise connected Instagram. “Midnight, what a storied and fabled hour,” she wrote. “On this sparkling evening I’ll beryllium releasing my twist connected a fairytale we each know. The 1 astir a miss and her measurement sisters and the timepiece striking 12. This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who person paved this shimmering path. Look retired for immoderate dazzling cameos! Join america aboriginal for a precise Bejeweled premiere.”

Just hours earlier the Oct. 21 merchandise of Midnights, Taylor revealed that she had created “music movies” for the album. “[These are] the euphony videos that I’ve made for this medium to benignant of research visually the satellite of this record,” Taylor explained. “I emotion penning videos, I emotion directing them. We truly wanted to situation ourselves to bash antithetic things this clip astir and agelong and I’m truly arrogant of what we made and I truly anticipation you similar them.”

As usual, though, Taylor kept things cryptic, and did not uncover overmuch much astir the videos. Although she confirmed that “Anti-Hero” would beryllium released connected Oct. 21, followed by a second, unnamed video connected Oct. 25, Taylor kept the remainder of the docket tight-lipped. However, she did uncover a teaser trailer for the mini movies, which featured speedy clips from what fans could expect successful the upcoming videos. She past confirmed connected Oct. 24 that “Bejeweled” would beryllium the 2nd video.

Midnights features 13 tracks, on with 1 caller bonus track, exclusive to the CD being sold astatine Target. However, 3 hours aft dropping the album, Taylor shared that fans would besides beryllium getting 7 ADDITIONAL songs connected the 3AM mentation of Midnights. In an Instagram post, she explained, “I deliberation of Midnights arsenic a implicit conception medium with those 13 songs forming a afloat representation of the intensities of that mystifying, huffy hour. However! There were different songs we wrote connected our travel to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing much of our originative process with you similar we bash with the From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”

Of course, it’s unclear whether oregon not the 3AM tracks volition beryllium portion of the euphony movies series, oregon not. Clearly, Taylor inactive has a batch up her sleeve. Plus, fans are inactive anxiously awaiting the imaginable announcement of an upcoming tour, which has been rumored for months.