Taylor Swift goes again to December along with her “I Can See You” music video, by which she is taking again management of her illustrious music profession.
“I wrote this video treatment over a year ago and really wanted to play out symbolically how it’s felt for me to have the fans helping me reclaim my music,” the Grammy winner, 33, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, July 7, after premiering the video at her Eras Tour cease in Kansas City. “Joey [King] and Presley [Cash] had been in the video for ‘Mean’ when they were 9 and 13 and they are back and so ridiculously bad ass!! [Taylor Lautner] is INCREDIBLE in this (didn’t have a stunt double!) and shout out to [his wife, Taylor Dome] for being so awesome to hang with on set.”
“I Can See You” is one in all Swift’s Speak Now vault tracks, which she launched on her rerecorded album hours earlier on Friday. In the music video, King, 23, Lautner, 31, and Cash, 26, assist Swift escape from a financial institution vault — surrounded by numerous Easter eggs.
Keep studying to see how Swift paid homage to her iconic profession — and even teased her subsequent rerecorded LP:
Countdown Clock
When the video begins, a timestamp of “July 9th 1:58 a.m.” flashes throughout the display. The digits immediately reference Swift’s “Last Kiss” (a Speak Now single) the place she sings “Fresh on the pavement, I ran off the plane that July ninth” and “lit through the darkness at 1:58” in separate verses.
One day after the video’s premiere, Swift added “Last Kiss” to the shock part of her Eras Tour present in KC. “I used to play this song with this guitar on the Speak Now tour every night. I don’t know if you noticed the date, It’s July 8th but very late in the night … and tomorrow is July 9th,” she quipped throughout the Saturday, July 8, live performance, per social media footage.
Frozen Behind Glass
In entrance of the vault, there’s a museum of Swift’s iconic outfits from her OG Speak Now period, together with the purple tour gown and the golden Grammys ensemble. The outfits are all locked in glass cages, which give a callback to Swift’s “It’s Time to Go.” In the Evermore tune, she even sings, “He’s got my past frozen behind glass but I’ve got me.”
Joey King Surely Isn’t ‘Mean’
Amid the discharge of King’s 2010 film Ramona and Beezus — which she starred in alongside Swift’s BFF Selena Gomez — she appeared within the authentic music video for “Mean.” King’s video character wore a white, poofy gown that resembled the flower woman gown her film character donned. Now, King wistfully gazed on the similar gown by means of the glass. The Kissing Booth star additionally used Swift’s banjo from the OG music video to battle off the safety guards on her tail in a second scene.
Long Live, Taylor Swift
Swift spent nearly all of the video locked within the vault, wearing her golden Speak Now tour gown, and accessorized with a “13” written on her hand and the “Long Live” lyrics written on her arm. (She would paint her fortunate quantity and the musical traces onto her physique earlier than every 2010 present.)
Going Back to December
The Twilight star, who dated Swift for a number of months in 2009, appeared in “I Can See You,” to assist King break the pop star out of the vault. In one scene, whereas combating goons, Lautner exhibits off his swordsman expertise — a reference to his Saturday Night Live monologue, by which he revealed how he wished to battle Kanye West after the VMAs drama — in entrance of a white piano. Swift used the identical instrument on her 2010 tour when she performed “Back to December” — the tune penned about her cut up from Lautner — within the blue robe on a model subsequent to it.
Numbers on the Wall
Eagle-eyed Swifties counted 1,468 tally marks on the within of the vault, which correspond to the variety of days between the time that her masters had been bought earlier than Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) got here out.
Baby, She’s Got Bad Blood
King and Lautner combating within the museum reminded many followers of Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video from her LP 1989. They additionally sought to carry onto a slim silver briefcase, which resembles an analogous one Swift carried in “Bad Blood.”
Driving in a Getaway Car
After King and Lautner rescued Swift, they ran outdoors to reunite with Cash in her ready van. The automobile sped away, in what followers referred to as their getaway automotive. Since Swift has a tune titled “Getaway Car” on her album Reputation, it might doubtlessly tease her model of the file is on the best way.
Ready for 1989?
As the squad’s getaway automotive sped away, they drove previous a bridge, which has a “1’-9” 8.9tv” signal within the heart. Fans instantly acknowledged that as a possible allusion to 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
King going by means of a purple laser maze contained in the financial institution can be a reference to Swift’s 1989 period. The “Mine” singer beforehand went by means of an analogous inexperienced labyrinth in a prerecorded skit for her iHeartRadio awards present efficiency shortly after the OG file dropped in 2014.
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