Taylor Swift Trolls Her Future Children in Music Video for “Anti-Hero”
Taylor Swift has truly delivered. On top of releasing Midnights at midnight, Taylor dropped seven unexpected bonus tracks at 3 a.m. (what is sleep?) and then gave us the “Anti-Hero” music video at 8 a.m.
Taylor directed the video herself and described it on Twitter as watching “my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.” And in one hilarious scene, Taylor’s grown-up sons and daughter-in-law (played by Mike Birbiglia, John Early, and Mary Elizabeth Ellis) find out they’re left nothing in her will during her funeral and speculate that she left them “a secret encoded message that means something else!” At which point Tay pops out of her casket and says, “P.S. There is no secret encoded message that means something else.”
I'm laughing too loud at this scene 😭 Anti-Hero pic.twitter.com/Tp9E7XeAo1
— pardonme (@nannnonnn) October 21, 2022
Okay, fair, but still digging through this video on the hunt for secret encoded messages:
Welp. On that note, I’ll leave you with the lyrics to “Anti-Hero,” courtesy of Genius, for panicked memorization purposes:
I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people
I’ve ghosted stand there in the room
I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices
I end up in crisis
(Tale as old as time)
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day, I’ll watch as you’re leaving
’Cause you got tired of my scheming
(For the last time)
It’s me, hi
I’m the problem, it’s me
At teatime, everybody agrees
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Sometimes, I feel like everybody is a sexy baby
And I’m a monster on the hill
Too big to hang out, slowly lurching toward your favorite city
Pierced through the heart but never killed
Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
Like some kind of congressman?
(A tale as old as time)
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day, I’ll watch as you’re leaving
And life will lose all its meaning
(For the last time)
It’s me, hi
I’m the problem, it’s me (I’m the problem, it’s me)
At teatime, everybody agrees
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money
She thinks I left them in the will
The family gathers around and reads it
And then someone screams out
“She’s laughing up at us from hell”
It’s me, hi
I’m the problem, it’s me
It’s me, hi
I’m the problem, it’s me
It’s me, hi
Everybody agrees, everybody agrees
It’s me, hi (hi)
I’m the problem, it’s me (I’m the problem, it’s me)
At teatime (teatime), everybody agrees (everybody agrees)
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
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