Unpacking the Taylor Swift "Anti-Hero" Video Easter Eggs
Taylor Swift is no stranger to a just right Easter egg, and her music video for "Midnights" song "Anti-Hero" is chock filled with them. Let's unpack all of them.
When musician Taylor Swift places out an album, enthusiasts can all the time wait for some form of visible stuffed with Easter eggs to practice. Her newest release, "Midnights," is not any exception to the rule, and once the music video for "Anti-Hero" hit YouTube, enthusiasts were there with their magnifying glasses.
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As such, it is time to unpack the Easter eggs in her "Anti-Hero" music video as soon as and for all. Here's all the details you need to find out about Taylor's latest musical endeavor.
Right from the start, Taylor references lyrics from "22."
The first image of the song video is a smiley face breakfast made from eggs, broccoli, and bacon. This generally is a connection with Taylor's lyric "breakfast at midnight" (now Midnight, capital M) from her Red album on the music "22." The eggs additionally leak glitter gel liquid, which is most without a doubt a connection with Taylor's "glitter gel pen" writing. (Taylor in the past revealed that she divides her songs into three other pen-themed classes; she stated the "gel pen" songs are "frivolous, carefree, bouncy, syncopated perfectly to the beat," per NME.)
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Taylor Swift carries the ghosts of her past selves around.
In the song video, two ghosts chase Taylor round her own residence, but if fanatics pay close consideration to their accessories, they could notice that one ghost wears cat ears very similar to Taylor in the "22" tune video, while the other wears a cowboy hat — most likely as a nod to Taylor's nation song roots, or "Cowboy Like Me" from Evermore.
Additionally, the ghosts appear as she sings "all of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room" sooner than the doorbell rings, and her adjust ego appears, there to sabotage her lifestyles.
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#DrunkTaylor returns for a much less hilarious meme.
Speaking of Taylor's modify ego, the Taylor in a sparkly jumpsuit in an instant encourages "Normal Taylor" to do shots. This could be a reference to a viral video from August 2019 the place "Drunk Taylor" trended on-line. She later spoke about the video on the Tonight Show that October, announcing, "So I was at a party like a couple months ago and I had two and half mojitos, and then the next day, #DrunkTaylor was like number-one trending on Twitter, because, you know, I go from like zero to legitimately thinking I’m a wizard within like two drinks."
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Taylor breaks her 'Speak Now' guitar.
Taylor Swift is known for having all kinds of specialised guitars at her disposal, so fanatics were fast to note that Alter Ego Taylor smashed her notorious koi guitar, best possible known from her Speak Now album generation, on the floor. Taylor has yet to re-release Speak Now (Taylor's Version), but some fans would possibly take this as a sign it is subsequent on the docket for re-releasing.
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Taylor remains to be healing from many non-public betrayals.
Standing in entrance of a blackboard with the phrases "Everyone Will Betray You," Alter Ego Taylor issues out one among Normal Taylor's largest existence classes. Not most effective did Taylor Swift disappear from the public eye after a personal telephone dialog between herself and Kanye West "leaked," but Scooter Braun bought the masters of her first six albums without her consent from her longterm label.
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Taylor Swift needs YOU to vote for her for "everything."
First, Taylor is shot with an arrow, which is doubtlessly a reference to the tune "The Archer" on her Lover album, and she is going to tab the glitter wound with a tablecloth earlier than bandaging it with a marketing campaign sticker. The sticky label itself is usually a reference to critics who see her as only hungry for awards and a few who view her as "calculated," because the button reads "Vote for me for everything."
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Taylor faces off against her consuming dysfunction.
In her documentary Miss Americana, Taylor addressed her eating dysfunction head-on, pronouncing the public's working observation on her body from a tender age led to her to limit her vitamin and significantly over-exercise. She mentioned there were occasions in the past when she'd see "a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or … someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating."
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Thankfully, Taylor advised Variety in 2020 she has conquer the worst of her weight-related insecurities, however with "Anti-Hero" being a music basically about self-loathing, it is evident that she has bad days as smartly.
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Taylor calls out lovers who are repeatedly looking for Easter eggs.
In a tongue-in-cheek second, Taylor imagines her wake, along with her daughter-in-law and kids combating over her properties. Then, after they discover Taylor has most effective left them Thirteen cents, the group discusses whether or not there are any hidden Easter eggs or meanings in the will to be decoded. A nervous Taylor peeks out from the casket prior to remaining it once more as the world descends to chaos.
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