Taylor Swift Parties With Her “Anti-Hero” (Also Taylor Swift) in New Video: Watch

The morning after Midnights, Taylor Swift has released the music video for “Anti-Hero.” In the visual, which you can watch below, Swift contends with all the neuroses and anxieties described in the song, helped along by her anti-hero, also played by Swift. In the middle section, based on a dream Swift describes in the song, a trio of her fictional adult children-in-law (Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Mike Birbiglia, and John Early) argue over her will as she peeks out of a coffin. She directed the video herself. 

After dropping Midnights at midnight, Swift surprise released Midnights (3am Edition) at 3 a.m. Eastern. That one features the original album, plus seven more songs recorded “on the journey.” Jack Antonoff features prominently across the whole batch of tracks, and other guests include Lana Del Rey, Zoë Kravitz, Joe Alwyn (aka William Bowery), Jahaan Sweet, Red Hearse’s Sam Dew and Sounwave, and, on three of the bonus tracks, the National’s Aaron Dessner.

Midnights is Swift’s first album of all-new material since 2020’s Evermore. Since then, she’s re-recorded versions of 2012’s Red and 2008’s Fearless as part of multi-year effort to remake her Big Machine catalog in its entirety. Scooter Braun, the record executive behind the sale of Swift’s catalog, said in September that he regrets how the situation was handled.