Taylor Swift is going back to December along with her “I Can See You” music video, by which she is taking back control of her illustrious music career.

“I wrote this video treatment over a year in the past and truly sought after to play out symbolically how it’s felt for me to have the fans helping me reclaim my music,” the Grammy winner, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday, July 7, after premiering the video at her Eras Tour stop in Kansas City. “Joey [King] and Presley [Cash] were in the video for ‘Mean’ once they were Nine and Thirteen and they are again and so ridiculously dangerous ass!! [Taylor Lautner] is INCREDIBLE on this (didn’t have a stunt double!) and shout out to [his spouse, Taylor Dome] for being so awesome to hold with on set.”

“I Can See You” is certainly one of Swift’s Speak Now vault tracks, which she released on her rerecorded album hours previous on Friday. In the music video, King, 23, Lautner, 31, and Cash, 26, assist Swift escape from a bank vault — surrounded via lots of Easter eggs.

Keep reading to see how Swift paid homage to her iconic career — or even teased her subsequent rerecorded LP:

Countdown Clock

When the video begins, a timestamp of “July 9th 1:Fifty eight a.m.” flashes around the screen. The digits at once reference Swift’s “Last Kiss” (a Speak Now unmarried) the place she sings “Fresh on the pavement, I ran off the airplane that July 9th” and “lit throughout the darkness at 1:58” in separate verses.

One day after the video’s premiere, Swift added “Last Kiss” to the surprise section of her Eras Tour show in KC. “I used to play this tune with this guitar at the Speak Now tour each night. I don’t know if you happen to spotted the date, It’s July eighth however very overdue in the night … and the next day is July 9th,” she quipped during the Saturday, July 8, concert, in line with social media photos.

Frozen Behind Glass

In front of the vault, there is a museum of Swift’s iconic outfits from her OG Speak Now generation, including the pink excursion get dressed and the golden Grammys ensemble. The outfits are all locked in glass cages, which provide a callback to Swift’s “It’s Time to Go.” In the Evermore track, she even sings, “He’s got my past frozen at the back of glass however I’ve were given me.”

Joey King Surely Isn’t ‘Mean’

Amid the discharge of King’s 2010 movie Ramona and Beezus — which she starred in along Swift’s BFF Selena Gomez — she gave the impression in the original music video for “Mean.” King’s video persona wore a white, poofy get dressed that resembled the flower woman dress her movie persona donned. Now, King wistfully gazed on the same dress through the glass. The Kissing Booth famous person also used Swift’s banjo from the OG music video to combat off the safety guards on her tail in a second scene.

Long Live, Taylor Swift

Swift spent the majority of the video locked in the vault, dressed in her golden Speak Now tour dress, and accessorized with a “13” written on her hand and the “Long Live” lyrics written on her arm. (She would paint her fortunate number and the musical traces onto her frame before every 2010 show.)

Going Back to December

The Twilight celebrity, who dated Swift for several months in 2009, seemed in “I Can See You,” to lend a hand King destroy the pop celebrity out of the vault. In one scene, while fighting goons, Lautner displays off his swordsman abilities — a reference to his Saturday Night Live monologue, through which he published how he wanted to fight Kanye West after the VMAs drama — in front of a white piano. Swift used the similar device on her 2010 tour when she performed “Back to December” — the track penned about her break up from Lautner — within the blue gown on a model subsequent to it.

Numbers on the Wall

Eagle-eyed Swifties counted 1,468 tally marks at the within the vault, which correspond to the collection of days between the time that her masters were sold ahead of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) got here out.

Baby, She’s Got Bad Blood

King and Lautner fighting in the museum reminded many fanatics of Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video from her LP 1989. They additionally sought to carry onto a slender silver briefcase, which resembles a an identical one Swift carried in “Bad Blood.”

Driving in a Getaway Car

After King and Lautner rescued Swift, they ran outdoor to reunite with Cash in her ready van. The vehicle sped away, in what lovers called their getaway car. Since Swift has a track titled “Getaway Car” on her album Reputation, it will doubtlessly tease her version of the record is on the manner.

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Ready for 1989?

As the squad’s getaway automotive sped away, they drove past a bridge, which has a “1’-9” 8.9tv” sign within the middle. Fans right away known that as a possible allusion to 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

King going through a red laser maze inside the bank could also be a connection with Swift’s 1989 era. The “Mine” singer up to now went through a equivalent inexperienced labyrinth in a prerecorded skit for her iHeartRadio awards display efficiency shortly after the OG record dropped in 2014.

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