Taylor Swift released the music video for her Midnights song “Lavender Haze” on January 27, and it's full of easter eggs. Here, all of them explained.
Swift appears to be alluding to multiple Midnights tracks and their lyrics in the video. Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). “Our Song” is from her debut album. [“Lavender Haze”](https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a41715111/taylor-swift-lavender-haze-lyrics-meaning-joe-alwyn/) at, well, midnight. The back of her different album versions form a clock. “When I was 15 and putting together my first album, [...] I decided to encode the lyrics with hidden messages using capital letters,” she said. “That’s how it started, and my fans and I have since descended into color coding, numerology, word searches, elaborate hints, and Easter eggs. “Lavender Haze is track 1 on Midnights,” she said So this song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.” And I thought that was really beautiful.” She added, “I guess, theoretically, when you’re in the ‘lavender haze,’ you’ll do anything to stay there. Swift explained on Twitter shortly after the video's release that it served as a mood board for the album.
The music video for Taylor Swift's 'Lavender Haze,' written and directed by the singer, was released today at—when else?—midnight.
The scenes are interspersed with glamour shots of the singer floating in a lavender pool of water. In the clip, Swift is lying awake beside her lover, played by trans model Laith Ashley, when a thick purple fog billows out from beneath the bed. The song’s video, written and directed by Swift, was released today at—when else?—midnight.
Taylor Swift has shared the official music video for her 'Midnights' cut 'Lavender Haze', paying homage to the purple shade.
[The 1975](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/the-1975)‘s London show, where she gave a live debut of ‘Anti-Hero’ and covered the band’s own song ‘The City’. The videos for ‘Midnights’ were created with cinematographer Rina Yang, who filmed Swift’s All Too Well short film from last year’s ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’. She shared a teaser trailer showing snippets of the videos to come, with other guest stars to include Mary Elizabeth Ellis, John Early and Mike Birbiglia. It’s the third track off ‘Midnights’ to receive the music video treatment, following the clips for ‘Anti-Hero’ and ‘Bejeweled’ last year. for the Lavender Haze music video premiere (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)”. Now, her self-directed video has arrived, featuring Swift in an array of purple-hued settings.
Taylor Swift has us floating on a cloud of "Lavender Haze." The singer teased the debut of the "Haze" music video on Instagram on Thursday, ...
1 spot, spending eight weeks on top and surpassing the seven weeks that “Blank Space” held in 2014. [deeply personal](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjPMULyPp9V/?hl=en) hit “Anti-Hero” is the Grammy winner’s longest-running [Billboard Hot 100 single](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-anti-hero-eighth-week-number-one-zach-bryan-top-10-1235199856/) to stay in the No. “Lavender Haze” is the third music video to debut from her 2022 “Midnights” album, following the videos for “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled.”
Taylor Swift has released the music video for “Lavender Haze,” the first track on her album 'Midnights.' The singer has explained that the lyrics apply to ...
Swift has previously explained that the lyrics to “Lavender Haze” apply to her current relationship with [Joe Alwyn](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/joe-alwyn-profile-conversations-with-friends.html). “And I thought that was really beautiful.” [Senate’s new favorite singer](http://www.vulture.com/2023/01/ticketmaster-senate-hearing-live-nation-recap.html) has finally dropped the music video for “Lavender Haze,” the first track off her album Midnights.
Taylor Swift's 'Lavender Haze' music video releases in a dazzling visual of cosmic aquariums, purple pools, and a lavender dance party.
In the video, she slips into the role of Cinderella, with HAIM stepping in as her mean stepsisters and Laura Dern as her evil stepmother. Swift first previewed the “Lavender Haze” video in a teaser trailer compiling clips from all the music videos she made for Midnights. Soon the room is filled with literal lavender as she moves towards the television, pulls it apart to reveal a cosmic aquarium, and soon she’s swimming in a purple pool, of course. The scene cuts to Swift in her living room watching her lover as a weatherman on television as she sings, “All they keep asking me is if I’m gonna be your bride/ The only kind of girl they see is a one night or a wife.” Since its release, the album era has moved ahead with big chart streaks and hit radio singles, but in the midst of the nightmare Eras tour ticketing fiasco, the singer’s [ visual master plan](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-midnights-videos-teaser-trailer-1234615309/) has been somewhat sidelined. As she sits up, a cloud hangs over her head, and as she lights a match an eerie “haze” fills the room.
Taylor Swift's 'Lavender Haze' music video left Swifts with a million questions, including 'what is Joe Alwyn's star sign?' and 'what is a koi fish?
As well as creating the feeling Tay’s living in a fish bowl, they also allude to the fact she’s re-releasing ‘Speak Now’ in her string of re-recordings. ‘Lavender Haze’ being the purple dream that it is, naturally matches Tay’s whole ‘Speak Now’ aesthetic which was, you guessed it, purple. [Which Albums Is Taylor Swift Re-Recording?
When Taylor Swift does something, the world pays attention. That much has already been proven many times over, most recently as US Senators quoted Swift ...
(Relatable, honestly.) Unable to sleep, Swift spins around in a literal puff of lavender smoke and lounges on a ’70s sofa. And then there’s the fact that [one out of every 25 vinyl albums sold in 2022](https://www.stereogum.com/2210268/vinyl-grows-for-the-17th-straight-year-taylor-swift-breaks-modern-sales-record/news/) was a Taylor Swift album. Directed by Swift, the clip finds her waking up in the middle of the night next to a partner, played by Laith Ashley, who is still in dreamland.