Taylor Swift dropped her newest music video for her song “Lavender Haze” featuring transgender model Laith Ashley as her love interest.
The video, written and directed by Swift, was released on Friday and fans can see Ashley, 33, cozying as much as the Grammy winner, also 33.
The three-minute purple-hued video, about being in love, shows Swift bathing within the nude in addition to sitting on a bed with a rain cloud hanging over her head.
The “Cats” star can also be seen cuddling up next to a shirtless Ashley as she playfully draws stars on his back together with her finger.
Swift lights a match and violet smoke appears round her in her artistic and colourful music video reverie.
In one other scene, the singer sits on a couch adorned in a furry blue coat as she adoringly watches Ashley giving the weather report on TV.
The surreal video then shows Swift crawling over to the TV set and opening the screen, which reveals fish swimming in outer space.
By the top of the video, Swift and Ashley are lovingly snuggled up together at a house party with their friends.
The last scene includes Swift flattening what seems to appear to be a movie set of the home party to disclose swimming fish in a starry sky.
The “Midnights” artist announced the clip’s premiere this morning, praising Ashley and expressing her excitement for fans to observe it.
“The ‘Lavender Haze’ video is out now. There’s plenty of lavender. There’s plenty of haze,” Swift wrote on Instagram.
“There’s my incredible costar @laith_ashley who I absolutely adored working with. This was the primary video I wrote out of the three which have been released,” she continued.
Swift added: “This one really helped me conceptualize the world and mood of Midnights, like a sultry sleepless 70’s fever dream. Hope you prefer it 😁.”
Ashley also commended Swift for inviting him to be an element of the work, tweeting on Friday: “Thanks a lot @taylorswift13 for allowing me to play a small part in your story. You might be sensible and that is an experience I’ll always remember.”
“Thanks for being an ally,” he added. “Representation matters. AND LOVE WILL ALWAYS WIN!”
Ashley began transitioning in 2014 and has since seen success as a model. He posed for legendary photographer Bruce Weber for a fashion campaign for Barney’s Recent York, in response to the Every day Mail.
Swifties quickly raced to YouTube to observe the brand new video and applauded Swift for her creativity. Fans also thanked Swift, a vocal advocate of the LGBTQ community, for casting a trans man as her love interest.
A user commented on the clip’s page: “Love seeing how much Taylor has evolved. Not only as a musician and artist, but as an individual. The cosmic 70s aesthetic, lyrical references and not-on-the-nose diversity on this video make me so completely happy I could cry.”
A Twitter user wrote: “Taylor Swift casting a trans man within the Lavender Haze video is just a lot, I really like her.”
“trans followers the male lead in the brand new taylor swift video is a trans man so we got some rep finally,” one other chimed in.
The song “Lavender Haze” got here out on Oct. 21 of last yr and is the primary track on Swift’s album “Midnights.” Taylor Swift said she was inspired to write down the track while watching Mad Men.
“I happened on the phrase ‘lavender haze’ after I was watching Mad Men, and I looked it up because I believed it sounded cool, and it seems that it’s a standard phrase utilized in the ’50s where they’d just describe being in love,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
