Within the lead-up to the discharge of “Midnights,” Taylor Swift herself mentioned this tenth document of hers was impressed by haunting late-night ideas and, imagine it or not, a little bit of “self-loathing.” Her first single, “Anti-Hero,” specifically, she mentioned delves “far into my insecurities” — and on “Midnights” launch day, we get to see what meaning.
Whereas the lyrics actually present a Swift who’s onerous on herself — “It’s me, hello, I’m the issue, it’s me,” she declares — the music video too displays how an individual is usually their very own hardest critic. In a tweet, Swift referred to as the video an outline of her “nightmare situations” and “intrusive ideas.”
Swift wrote and directed the video, which follows a Swift tortured by monsters like ghosts, rest room scales and judgey individuals at events. Then issues begin to get extra deep as she faces completely different variations of herself that she’s additionally tortured by — metaphors!
