Taylor Swift’s second Midnights music video is one giant Easter egg hunt. The singer released her video for “Bejeweled” at midnight and told Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show ahead of its release that there is a “psychotic amount” of Easter eggs in her fun tackle Cinderella. “Now we have a PDF file for the Easter eggs on this video because there are such a lot of that we couldn’t keep track,” she admitted.
Swift spoke concerning the casting for the video, explaining her thought process. “I desired to make a video that’s only for the fans who like certain things like glitter and Easter eggs and numerous little cameos,” she began. “So principally I used to be eager about Midnights, the concept, and I used to be like where will we hear about midnights loads? We hear about it loads after we talk concerning the Cinderella fairy tale and so I used to be like what if we did a bit twist on a Cinderella story and I could forged my friends? My best friends, the Haim sisters, what in the event that they played the stepsisters? And I used to be like what if we actually shoot for the celebrities with the opposite castings. What if it was Oscar winner Laura Dern playing my stepmother? I used to be like, ‘Oscar winner Laura Dern, hello, I’ve written a script. It’s a one scene script wherein you’ll call me a drained, tacky wench.’ And he or she was like, I’m down. She’s the best. She’s so funny. She’s one other one, I’m like, ‘friend. You’re my friend now.’”
“Directing Oscar winner Laura Dern is like easier than anything I’ve ever done in my life.” Swift continued. “She’s just the best and I can’t even consider I’m saying things like this. And so then we’ve one among my favorite performers who I feel has been so influential in pop music and I’ve nicknamed this character not the fairy godmother however the fairy goddess and that’s played by Dita von Teese who I feel is one of the crucial iconic performers and it’s so exciting to get to see her do what she does on this. Jack Antonoff is in it. The genius, legendary makeup artist and creator Pat McGrath is in it. So I’m really, really, really excited.”
Fans were quick to discover many Easter eggs. Here, the whole lot they spotted thus far. Watch the music video too below.
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Taylor Swift – Bejeweled (Official Music Video)
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Within the stepsisters and stepmother scene:
The violin strings play “Enchanted,” Swifties quickly identified:
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The stepmother, played by Laura Dern, uses Swift’s last name in a pun: “He bored with her quite quickly or should I say swiftly?”
“There it’s. That joke never gets old. Thanks, thanks a lot,” Swift dryly replied.
Dern references “exile,” the name of a track from Swift’s folklore album: “Lest you forget, you’ve got been exiled here.”
One in all the stepsisters, played by Danielle Haim, says “bye snake,” to Swift, referring to what trolls have called Swift online.
The portrait of Jack Antonoff, the Prince Charming within the video and Swift’s frequent collaborator, has cats on it, Swift’s favorite animal.
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Fans noted that Swift references “Speak Now,” several times within the video, going thus far as to release the music video on the album’s anniversary.
From the three elevator button she hits (her third album) to Dern’s dialogue to the stage decor, Swift drops many hints that it’ll be the following re-recorded album she releases.
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Biggest EASTER EGG? She waited to release the Bejeweled music video with Easter Eggs on the twelfth (12!!! MIDNIGHT) anniversary of the Speak Now confirming it’s the following TAYLOR’S VERSION! 🤯 #TSmidnighTS pic.twitter.com/PN7ZRmiUSX
— Zainub Amir (@zainubamir) October 25, 2022
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Swift’s Cinderella cleansing outfit (and her “exile” look) resemble her look within the “cardigan” music video.
One fan theorized the transition from her cleansing look to bejeweled outfits represent her re-entry into pop after folklore and evermore.
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Swift taking the castle and leaving her folklore cottage could also symbolize her music era shift:
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Swift hits the three button within the elevator (Speak Now, her third album), then goes to the fifth floor (1989 her fifth album).
Fans think that might signify the order she’s releasing her re-recorded albums in.
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The colours within the elevator (and floors) symbolize Swift’s past albums.
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debut, fearless, speak now, red, 1989,repute, lover, folklore, evermore, fearless TV, red TV, midnights and SPEAK NOW TV!!!!! #MidnightsTS #BejeweledMusicVideo pic.twitter.com/7ymzapPuhn
— jaelyn!! | 🪩🪩🪩 (@jaelynlovestay) October 25, 2022
In addition they appear on her necklace:
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Swift’s Old Hollywood get-up in her scene with fairy goddess Dita von Teese looks loads like her 2014 Met Gala look, which kicked off her 1989 era.
It also has the usual Hollywood vibes as her “Wildest Dreams” music video did.
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Swift and Antonoff pose with a vault key, symbolizing the vault tracks which have appeared on her re-recorded albums thus far, a fan identified.
The vault tracks are songs that did not make the ultimate cut of the album but were written for it.
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The dragons at the top of the music video could also be a reference to Swift’s “Long Live” lyric, “I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you,” fans identified.
Orchestration also plays the tune of the song.
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i really like that there’s an instrumental of long live at the top of the bejeweled music video right when the dragons appear because “i’ve had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” 🥲 pic.twitter.com/XjGFShJ9s1
— jessica (@enchantedjess13) October 25, 2022
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Swift on the balcony at the top of the video echoes her Speak Now tour, fans identified.
One more clue that Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is up next.
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This post will probably be updated with more Easter eggs as they’re identified.
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring Latest York City.
