Taylor Swift goes again to December along with her “I Can See You” music video, wherein she is taking again management of her illustrious music profession.
“I wrote this video remedy over a yr in the past and actually needed to play out symbolically the way it’s felt for me to have the followers serving to 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 Metropolis. “Joey [King] and Presley [Cash] had been within the video for ‘Imply’ once they had been 9 and 13 and they’re again and so ridiculously unhealthy ass!! [Taylor Lautner] is INCREDIBLE on this (didn’t have a stunt double!) and shout out to [his wife, Taylor Dome] for being so superior to hold with on set.”
“I Can See You” is certainly one of Swift’s Converse Now vault tracks, which she launched on her rerecorded album hours earlier on Friday. Within the music video, King, 23, Lautner, 31, and Money, 26, assist Swift escape from a financial institution vault — surrounded by a lot of Easter eggs.
Hold 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 ninth 1:58 a.m.” flashes throughout the display. The digits straight reference Swift’s “Final Kiss” (a Converse Now single) the place she sings “Contemporary on the pavement, I ran off the airplane that July ninth” and “lit by the darkness at 1:58” in separate verses.
Sooner or later after the video’s premiere, Swift added “Final Kiss” to the shock part of her Eras Tour present in KC. “I used to play this track with this guitar on the Converse Now tour each evening. I don’t know when you seen the date, It’s July eighth however very late within the evening … and tomorrow is July ninth,” 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 Converse 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.” Within the Evermore track, she even sings, “He’s acquired my previous frozen behind glass however I’ve acquired me.”
Joey King Absolutely Isn’t ‘Imply’
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 “Imply.” King’s video character wore a white, poofy gown that resembled the flower lady gown her film character donned. Now, King wistfully gazed on the similar gown by the glass. The Kissing Sales space star additionally used Swift’s banjo from the OG music video to combat off the safety guards on her tail in a second scene.
Lengthy Reside, Taylor Swift
Swift spent the vast majority of the video locked within the vault, wearing her golden Converse Now tour gown, and accessorized with a “13” written on her hand and the “Lengthy Reside” lyrics written on her arm. (She would paint her fortunate quantity and the musical strains onto her physique earlier than every 2010 present.)
Going Again 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 a single scene, whereas preventing goons, Lautner exhibits off his swordsman expertise — a reference to his Saturday Evening Reside monologue, wherein he revealed how he needed to combat Kanye West after the VMAs drama — in entrance of a white piano. Swift used the identical instrument on her 2010 tour when she performed “Again to December” — the track 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 Converse Now (Taylor’s Model) got here out.
Child, She’s Obtained Unhealthy Blood
King and Lautner preventing within the museum reminded many followers of Swift’s “Unhealthy Blood” music video from her LP 1989. Additionally they sought to carry onto a slim silver briefcase, which resembles an identical one Swift carried in “Unhealthy Blood.”
Driving in a Getaway Automobile
After King and Lautner rescued Swift, they ran outdoors to reunite with Money in her ready van. The automobile sped away, in what followers referred to as their getaway automotive. Since Swift has a track titled “Getaway Automobile” on her album Status, it might doubtlessly tease her model of the document is on the best way.
Prepared for 1989?
Because the squad’s getaway automotive sped away, they drove previous a bridge, which has a “1’-9” 8.9tv” signal within the middle. Followers instantly acknowledged that as a possible allusion to 1989 (Taylor’s Model).
King going by a purple laser maze contained in the financial institution can also be a reference to Swift’s 1989 period. The “Mine” singer beforehand went by an identical inexperienced labyrinth in a prerecorded skit for her iHeartRadio awards present efficiency shortly after the OG document dropped in 2014.
