Taylor Swift just released her music video for “Bejeweled” and, as you might expect, it’s filled with Easter Eggs.
On October 21, Taylor Swift premiered her tenth studio album, Midnights. Later the same day, the first single arrived with a music video, “Anti-Hero,” where Taylor addresses some of her insecurities.
But on October 25, she released the second music video of the era, the one for “Bejeweled.” And, unlike the first one, this one is based on a beloved fairy tale: Cinderella.
Taylor stars as Cinderella, with the HAIM sisters as her step-sisters and Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern as her stepmother. Dita Von Teese and Jack Antonoff are also part of the video.
Swift spoke about the casting for the video on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, explaining her thought process. “I wanted to make a video that’s just for the fans who like certain things like glitter and Easter eggs and lots of little cameos,” she started.
“So basically I was thinking about Midnights, the concept, and I was like where do we hear about midnights a lot? We hear about it a lot when we talk about the Cinderella fairy tale and so I was like what if we did a little twist on a Cinderella story and I could cast my friends? My best friends, the Haim sisters, what if they played the stepsisters? And I was like what if we really shoot for the stars with the other castings. What if it was Oscar winner Laura Dern playing my stepmother? I was like, ‘Oscar winner Laura Dern, hello, I’ve written a script. It’s a one scene script in which you are going to call me a tired, tacky wench.’ And she was like, I’m down. She’s the coolest. She’s so funny.” Taylor adds, “She’s another one, I’m like, ‘friend. You are my friend now.’”
She also admitted that she put a “psychotic amount” of Easter Eggs in the “Bejeweled” music video. “We have a PDF file for the Easter Eggs in this music video.” So, let’s get to them!
One thing everyone agrees is that there are a ton of Speak Now references. One, it’s the “Enchanted” orchestra you can hear at the beginning of the dialogue with the stepsisters. You can hear a song from the same album at the end, too, “Long Live.” Plus, when she presses the third elevator button (Speak Now is her third album), the number is purple, the album’s main shade.
debut, fearless, speak now, red, 1989,reputation, lover, folklore, evermore, fearless TV, red TV, midnights and SPEAK NOW TV!!!!! #MidnightsTS #BejeweledMusicVideo pic.twitter.com/7ymzapPuhn
— jaelyn!! | 🪩🪩🪩 (@jaelynlovestay) October 25, 2022
She also had three dragons at the end, a hint to “Long Live” again, “I had the time of my life, Fighting dragons with you.“
A lot people believe that Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) may be next. Or Taylor just wanted to mess with our heads. Because “Bejeweled” was released on the same day as the original Speak Now album, 12 years ago.
Biggest EASTER EGG? She waited to release the Bejeweled music video with Easter Eggs on the 12th (12!!! MIDNIGHT) anniversary of the Speak Now confirming it’s the next TAYLOR’S VERSION! 🤯 #TSmidnighTS pic.twitter.com/PN7ZRmiUSX
— Zainub Amir (@zainubamir) October 25, 2022
Dern references “exile,” the name of a track from Swift’s folklore album: “Lest you forget, you’ve been exiled here.” The same song appears on a clock. If we’re still talking about Dern’s stepmother character, she also tells Cinderella to “Speak Not.“
The same character comments about getting engaged being “the single most defining thing a lady could hope to achieve in her lifetime,” which is a hint at Midnights‘ first track, “Lavender Haze.” There, Taylor sings that she’s not interested in “The 1950 sh*t they want from me” and that “The only kinda girl they see
Is a one night or a wife.“
This seems like a Easter egg for Lavender Haze which could be the next MV!! Bc in Bejeweled MV the stepmom says this about marriage proposals pic.twitter.com/ZJKAN07Tym
— Fizah (Taylor’s Midnights Version)!!♡ (@mcutaylivia) October 25, 2022
Jack Antonoff’s character, Prince Jack, proposes to Cinderella, but she refuses, keeping the castle instead. This might be a hint to “Midnight Rain,” “He wanted a bride, I was making my own name” or even Evermore‘s “Champagne Problems,” “Sometimes you just don’t know the answer, ‘Til someone’s on their knees and asks you.”
One of the stepsisters, played by Danielle Haim, tells Cinderella “bye snake,” to Swift, referring to the main snake theme of the reputation album. Kim Kardashian also famously called her a “snake.”
She also has some outfits that remind us about her previous eras, folklore and evermore. She also wore a cloak, which she did both in “Willow” and “Ready for It.”
Taylor also poses with Antonoff, holding a case with a key, that could have different meanings. One might be that, through her re-recordings, she’s taking back her work. Another could be from “Look What What You Made Me Do,” “I don’t like your kingdom keys, They once belong to me.“
TAYLOR AND JACK HOLDING THE VAULT KEY REFERENCING THE VAULT TRACKS ON THE RE-RECORD ALBUMS OMG #BejeweledMusicVideo pic.twitter.com/MzXSKG1Orh
— 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀𝓁𝑜𝓇𝑒 (@cardigan_swift) October 25, 2022
She also has some other hints at her previous eras and the Long Pond Studio.
long pond studio is there!!!!! pic.twitter.com/xGJYV8waZZ
— 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢¹³🪩 MIDNIGHTS 🕰️ (@wildestdrivers) October 25, 2022
And a throwback to her Speak Now tour, which included the balcony, the bell tower, and the curtains.
🥚| The stage in the ‘Bejeweled’ music video looks JUST like the stage from the ‘Speak Now World Tour’! pic.twitter.com/c44SW4TiE1
— SpotifySwiftie💎 (@SpotifySwiftie) October 25, 2022
Let us know if you have found more Easter Eggs in the “Bejeweled” music video. If you didn’t get a chance to watch it yet – here you go.
And you have the snippet from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon here:
