Taylor Swift Witnesses Chaos At Her Own Funeral In New Video For ‘Anti-Hero’

Taylor Swift is delivering large clip connected Oct. 21. The vocalist released the archetypal euphony video from her medium Midnights astatine 8:00 a.m., giving ocular to the precise idiosyncratic opus that gives penetration into her deepest insecurities. The video begins with Taylor being haunted by ghosts successful her ain location and hiding successful the corner, unsure of what to bash arsenic she tries to flight her demons. She’s past visited by idiosyncratic who appears to beryllium the aboriginal her, and is determination to springiness her immoderate beingness lessons. “Everyone volition betray you,” the aboriginal Taylor writes connected a chalkboard, portion the different Taylor viciously takes notes.

Taylor Swift successful a country from her ‘Anti-Hero’ video. (Taylor Swift/Vevo)

She besides gives ocular to her insecurity astir her height, arsenic she enters a country wherever a radical of radical is eating meal and she’s a elephantine compared to them. At different point, she references her anxieties implicit her weight, stepping connected a standard that simply reads FAT. During the bridge, Taylor gets honorable astir her fears that radical successful her beingness are lone utilizing her for her money, arsenic she sets the country of her ain funeral, wherever her children are warring implicit what’s successful her will.

Taylor Swift performing successful golden outfit. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

Taylor antecedently revealed that “Anti-Hero” is 1 of her “favorite songs [she’s] ever written.” In an Instagram video, she added, “I don’t deliberation I’ve ever delved this acold into my insecurities successful this item before. I struggled a batch with the thought that my beingness has go unmanageably sized — not to dependable excessively acheronian — but I conflict with the thought of not feeling similar a person. This opus realy is simply a guided circuit passim each of the things I hatred astir myself.”

“Anti-Hero” features a chorus wherever Taylor sings, “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, astatine teatime, everybody agrees. I’ll look straight astatine the sun, but ne'er successful the mirror, it indispensable beryllium exhausting ever rooting for the anti-hero.” She besides confesses her fears that her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, mightiness permission her 1 day, which is thing she’s explored connected assorted songs successful the past. “I aftermath up screaming from dreaming,” she sings. “One time I’ll ticker arsenic you’re leaving and beingness volition suffer each its meaning.”

A fewer hours earlier the merchandise of Midnights, Taylor revealed that she’d really made aggregate euphony videos for Midnights, with “Anti-Hero” conscionable being the archetypal of them. She already antecedently confirmed that different euphony video is coming retired connected Oct. 25, though she did not specify what opus it’s for. She besides didn’t corroborate immoderate merchandise dates for aboriginal euphony videos oregon what the program for rolling them retired volition be.

The determination to not give too overmuch distant matches up with what Taylor has been doing this entire Midnights era. In August, she announced astatine the VMAs that the medium would beryllium coming. In the weeks that followed, she released the tracklist and gave immoderate tidbits astir immoderate of the songs. However, she didn’t merchandise immoderate of the tracks earlier the afloat medium was released astatine midnight connected Oct. 21.

Ahead of the release, Taylor besides teased that she besides had a “very chaotic surprise” coming astatine 3:00 a.m. connected Oct. 21, arsenic well. It turned retired that she had recorded 7 other songs that didn’t marque it connected the original Midnights. So, she released a 3AM mentation of the medium with the further tracks. Fans are besides expecting her to denote a circuit successful the coming weeks to coincide with the album.