Hidden Details In Taylor Swift's New Willow Music Video

A new music video means a new Easter egg hunt for Taylor Swift fans, and Swifties dutifully embarked on the search for any hidden messages or symbols within Swift's "Willow" music video upon its release on Dec. 11, 2020.

Fans actually did not even need to wait for the music video to drop before discovering a hidden symbol that referenced the song. In Swift's most recent "not a lot going on at the moment" Instagram post (not to be confused with the April 2020 selfie with the same caption), which was shared two weeks before releasing Folklore's sister album Evermore, Swift poses on a couch and stares at the camera. Fans, of course, knew Swift was actually up to quite a lot, but most assumed that she was talking about the fact that she is currently re-recording her first six studio albums.

However, once Evermore was announced along with the video for "Willow," one fan put together the clue in that couch photo. On the right side of the couch hanging on the wall is a framed picture of what at first glance looks like a grey blob, but upon closer analysis, is in fact a willow tree. Now, the "Willow" video is here and there are more clues to unfold. Here are the hidden details in Swift's newest music video.

Taylor Swift's "Willow" video starts where folklore's "Cardigan" video left off, with Swift sitting at her piano stool in her cardigan. However, this time around, there is a golden, sparkling string leading into the world within her piano, and she follows it. The string seems to be a nod to Folklore's "Invisible String" track, in which she sings "one single thread of gold tied me to you." Swift spends the whole video following the string, which brings her through fantastical meadows and witchy scenes to her match, who she meets in a glass box.

This box can be seen as a symbol of the trappings of fame, which has made having a normal love life difficult for Swift. The "Seven" songstress told Paul McCartney in an October 2020 interview for Rolling Stone that she yearns to create "normalcy" in her relationship with Joe Alwyn, who "Willow" is undoubtedly about. "I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like just a storyline," she said about her romance.

Swift concludes the video by taking an underground tunnel which leads her back out of the piano and into the arms of her match. "I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans. That's my man," she sings as she and her lover walk off into the forest hand in hand. It looks like Swift has finally found "the one."