And here it is: Taylor Swift has released "...Ready For It?", her second music video for Reputation, as promised tonight. There's a lot to unpack in it—Swift meeting a new, naked cyborg version of herself, that new self destroying her old self (there's an actual platform that says "They're burning all the witches"—"they're" perhaps being Swift's critics—during the destruction scene), and what ultimately is her rebirth.
Fans have also already found a Joe Alwyn/Taylor Swift Easter egg featuring their birth years—additional confirmation, it would seem, that the song truly is about Swift's new British actor boyfriend Alwyn:
Along with what could be little love notes to him on the wall. "Gorgeous" is the name of Swift's other song about Alwyn:
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