Taylor Swift And Transgender Actor Laith Ashley Create Magic In Lavender Haze

At the stroke of midnight on 28 January,  Taylor Swift released the video of her new song Lavender Haze which is the opening track from her much acclaimed album “Midnight”. The internet was taken by a storm not only because it was an most awaited music video but also for Laith Ashley who is a well-known transgender model, activist and actor featured in the video, alongside Swift.

In the ">video, Ashley can be seen as Swift’s love interest through the opening scenes of the video that featured the two lying next to each other on a bed. Later in the video it is also revealed that Ashley is playing a double role as a weather forecaster in the television set. This music video written and directed by Taylor Swift herself has garnered lots of praise and acclaims from her fans globally as well as Ashely drew the lot craze especially from the LGBTQ mainstream groups.

As she shared the post on Instagram at precisely the midnight of Friday, inspired to form a congruence with her album named “Midnight”, she wrote in the caption, “The Lavender Haze is out now. There is lots of lavender. There is lots of haze. There is my incredible co-star @laith_ashley who I absolutely adored working with. This was the first video I wrote out of the three that have been released, and this one really helped me conceptualize the world and mood of ‘Midnights,’ like a sultry sleepless ’70s fever dream. Hope you like it.”

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In fact, in an earlier post talking about the inspiration rooted in her song Lavender Haze, she wrote on Instagram, “I happened upon the phrase "lavender haze" when I was watching Mad Men. I looked it up because I thought it sounded cool and it turns out that it's a common phrase used in the 50s where they would just describe being in love. If you were in the lavender haze, then that meant that you were in that all-encompassing love glow and I thought that was really beautiful.

She then continued, "I guess theoretically when you’re in Lavender Haze, you’ll do anything to stay there and not let people bring you down off of that cloud. I think a lot of people have to deal with this now because we live in the era of social media and if the world finds out you're in love with somebody, they're gonna weight in on it." She then added about her six-year-long relationship with Joe saying, “"Like my relationship for six years, we've had to dodge weird rumours, tabloid stuff and we just ignore it. So this song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff."

Meanwhile, Laith Ashley couldn’t resist his excitement about the new release, so he took to twitter to thank Swift by tagging her in a tweet which read, “"You are brilliant and this is an experience I will never forget.”

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