While the title of “The Tortured Poets Department” is believed to be inspired by Joe Alwyn, it’s also similar to the title of the 1989 coming-of-age film “Dead Poets Society.” Swift even cast two actors from the movie in her music video: Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles. They’re two of the doctors in lab coats who hook Swift up to a machine that looks like it was lifted from the “Bride of Frankenstein” set. Or maybe Swift’s intention was to channel Emma Stone in “Poor Things” when she pretended to get a mega-dose of electricity.
Fans get to see what a department full of tortured poets might look like when Swift and Malone join a group of writers who are cloaked in black and seated behind typewriters. The machines emit swirls of gold and blue as they write. Could this harken back to the “Reputation” track “Dancing With Our Hands Tied”? It includes the lyrics, “My love had been frozen deep blue, but you painted me golden.”
Some fans observed that Swift is wearing a bridal gown similar to her 2024 Grammys look when she breaks a two-way mirror in her barren asylum room, and one X user pointed out that Swift and Post Malone seem to replicate their 2019 American Music Awards hug in one of the video’s sweeter scenes. At this point, Swifties have already found so many Easter eggs that it might take a fortnight to list them all!
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