Taylor Swift Enlists HAIM and Laura Dern in ‘Bejeweled’ Music Video

Taylor Swift is having a blast with her Midnights era, creating her version of Cinderella with "a little twist" through the "Bejeweled" music video.

While appearing on The Tonight Show Monday (October 24), Swift told host Jimmy Fallon that she enlisted her best friends HAIM to play her wicked stepsisters. Playing the role of her wicked stepmother, Swift wanted to "shoot for the stars" and got Oscar-winner Laura Dern (Marriage Story) to take on the role. The fairy goddess (not godmother) is played by one of her "favorite performers," burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese. Meanwhile "genius, legendary" makeup artist Pat McGrath plays the Queen and frequent music collaborator Jack Antonoff plays Prince Jack.

When asked by Fallon, "How did you get in touch with Laura Dern?" Swift replied, "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.'" Since Swift directed this music video as well, Fallon asked how it was to direct the Oscar winner, to which she replied, "It's easier than anything I've ever done in my life."

Swift is giving the fans exactly what they want in her Midnights video drops so far, with this one featuring “a psychotic amount” of Easter eggs throughout the video. In fact, Swift said, she has “a PDF file for the Easter eggs in this video because there are so many, we could not keep track."

Hours before the music video release, the singer-songwriter shared about the "Bejeweled" music video, "Midnight, what a storied and fabled hour," she wrote on Instagram. "On this sparkling evening I'll be releasing my twist on a fairytale we all know. The one about the girl and her step sisters and the clock striking 12… This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who have paved this shimmering path. Look out for some dazzling cameos! Join us later for a very Bejeweled premiere."

Today, Swift shared a hilarious clip on Instagram alongside Antonoff (both in full costume from the music video), "So, uh, we were born in the wrong time." While checking himself out in the mirror and taking a sip of what looks to be wine, he adds, "'Cause we look f---ing great." She captioned the short clip, "We’re the problem."

Watch the music video for "Bejeweled" below:

Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated 10th studio album Midnights dropped today (October 21) and fans have been going wild on social media. Swift surprised fans with seven bonus tracks when she dropped  Midnights (3am Edition) at 3 am. They include "The Great War," "Bigger Than the Whole Sky," "Paris," "High Infidelity," "Glitch" "Would've, Could've, Should've" and "Dear Reader." As promised, she released the music video for track 3: "Anti-Hero." Per her Midnights Manifest schedule, lyric videos to the album will be released at 8 pm ET Friday.

Directed by Swift herself, the award-winning singer-songwriter dropped Easter eggs and cinematic parallels throughout the whole video, calling back to previous eras. Here's a thread pointing out all of those hidden details from the mastermind herself. As always, Swift took to Instagram to debut some behind-the-scenes pictures from the “Anti-Hero” music video shoot. The singer introduced the video by writing, “Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.”

Watch the “Anti-Hero” music video below.

Swift wrote of her bonus tracks, "Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now."

One of the bonus tracks in particular was noticed by Swifties as being a dig at Taylor's ex-boyfriend John Mayer. She already wrote "Dear John" about him on her Speak Now (2010) album. The two dated briefly between 2009 and 2010, when she was 19 and he was 32. Now, track 19, titled "Would've, Could've, Should've" seemingly calls out Mayer once more, firing up Swifties once again. The song's chorus features lyrics: "I damn sure never would've danced with the devil / At nineteen / And the God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven / And now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts / Memories feel like weapons." Following that, Swift's lyrics are: "If you never touched me, I would've / Gone along with the righteous."

"Taylor really put Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, a song directly about her relationship with John Mayer when she was just 19, as TRACK 19 ON THE ALBUM. SHOTS WERE FIRED," wrote one person on Twitter. "john mayer was sleeping peacefully but was awoken at 3am with a chill down his spine" wrote another. "something tells me john mayer just jumped out of his sleep with a gasp. i know he felt a shift," wrote one person. Another found it amusing that Mayer was called out, writing, "i cant stop laughing taylor really said actually i don't want to wait for speak now taylors version to be released to drag john mayer i need him to suffer NOW."

Check out the songs from Midnights below: