A 1980s-inspired ballad, "Fortnight" is a downtempoelectropop, synth-pop, and new wave song built around a steady, pulsing synthbassline. Its lyrics describe an emotionally impactful, two-week romance: A woman in an unhappy marriage rekindles with a married ex-lover, and the two vow to escape to Florida. Reviews of the song praised the vocal chemistry between Swift and Malone, but some critics found the composition weak when compared to Swift's other singles. At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, "Fortnight" has been nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Commercially, "Fortnight" broke the record for the highest single-day streams on the streaming platform Spotify. In the United States, the song debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking Swift's twelfth and Malone's fifth number-one song. It earned Swift her fifth number-one single on the Billboard Global 200 chart and peaked atop the charts in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Taylor Swift announced her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024.[1] She announced the track listing via social media the following day; Post Malone was revealed to be the featured artist on the opening track, "Fortnight".[2] Swift developed the album "for about two years" after finishing her previous album Midnights (2022). She reflected on The Tortured Poets Department as a "lifeline" for her,[3] and its conception took place amidst media reports on Swift's personal life and her relationships with Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy, and Travis Kelce.[4]
During an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 in February 2024, Malone said that Swift initiated the collaboration by simply "hitting him up". He then "rolled in the studio" and hung out with her, having a "good day" together.[5] At the time of the interview, Malone had not heard the full song yet.[6] "Fortnight" was released as the lead single of The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, 2024, concurrently with the album's release.[7][8]Republic Records serviced the track to contemporary hit and hot adult contemporary radio in the United States,[9] while Universal Music promoted it on radio airplay in Italy.[10] The track was also made available for purchase as a CD single through Swift's online store in the United States,[11] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[12] and Germany and Switzerland.[13] A remix produced by Blond:ish was released on May 21, 2024.[14] On July 8, 2024, an acoustic version and a remix produced by Cults were released.[15]
Starting from the May 2024 shows in Paris as part of the Eras Tour, Swift revamped the set list to include songs from The Tortured Poets Department in a new act, including "Fortnight".[16][17] For its performance, the stage features a "TTPD"-emblazoned bed and dancers dressed as nurses. Swift sings the song as she sits on a typewriter, across from a dancer.[18]
Music and lyrics
Swift wrote "Fortnight" with Malone and Jack Antonoff, who programmed the track and played instruments on it: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, the Juno, the M1, drums, and percussion. Sean Hutchinson played additional drums, which were recorded by himself and Michael Riddleberger at Hutchinson Sounds in Brooklyn. Malone's vocals were recorded and produced by Louis Bell at Electric Feel Studios in Los Angeles. "Fortnight" was recorded by Laura Sisk and Oli Jacobs at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles and Electric Lady Studios in New York City. It was mixed by Serban Ghenea at Mixstar Studios in Virginia Beach.[19]
Some American publications pointed to the fact that the title is a British English noun meaning "two weeks".[31][33] The lyrics are about the strong impacts of a two-week romance that leaves behind fleeting emotions:[21] Swift's narrator is a woman in an unhappy marriage, and she becomes a neighbor of an ex-lover, who is now married to another woman.[20][34] They encounter each other on a daily basis in a suburban American town, watering the flowers in their garden and chatting about the weather.[21] That she lives next-door to her ex-lover makes her fantasize about killing the wife ("Your wife waters flowers/ I want to kill her")[31] and resorts to alcoholism to cope with her misery.[21] After the second verse, during the double chorus, Swift's character finds out about her husband's infidelity ("My husband is cheating/ I wanna kill him").[31] By the end, Malone's character, representing the ex-lover of Swift's character, sings about escaping to Florida ("Thought of callin' ya, but you won't pick up/ 'Nother fortnight lost in America/ Move to Florida, buy the car you want/ But it won't start up till you touch, touch, touch me").[31]
In an album premiere special with iHeartRadio, Swift shared that the single "really exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout [the album]", including "fatalism, longing, pining away, lost dreams".[35] She added, in a commentary for Amazon Music, that "Fortnight" displayed "fatalistic" themes with hyperbolic and dramatic lyrics ("I love you, it's ruining my life"), which represented the album.[36]The New York Times' Lindsay Zoladz thought that the track is "chilly and controlled" until it "[thaws] and [glows]" after the lyric "I love you, it's ruining my life".[37] Donovan summed up the storyline as "a former love affair turning into a suburban nightmare".[31]Consequence's Mary Siroky opined that the lyrics had a heavy "air of death" ("I want to kill him"),[38] while USA Today's Melissa Ruggeri thought that they were "darkly funny" ("I was a functioning alcoholic 'til nobody noticed my new aesthetic").[39] Helen Brown of The Independent suggested that the lyrics were autobiographical,[40] but Pitchfork's Shaad D'Souza suggested that they blended the confessional and fictional, evoking the songwriting of Swift's 2020 album Folklore.[41]
Critical reception
Alli Rosenbloom of CNN described the song as a "dynamic first track" and "perhaps the album's catchiest", praising how Swift's and Malone's vocals go well together.[42] Mesfin Fekadu of The Hollywood Reporter also picked it as an album highlight.[30] In the Irish Independent, John Meagher opined that Malone's guest appearance was restrained compared to his usual tendency for "melodramatic performances", and the result turned out to be "all the better".[43] Ed Power in The Daily Telegraph wrote: "His breathy singing voice dovetails surprisingly with Swift's angsty coo".[44] Lipshutz ranked "Fortnight" fifth out of the 31 tracks on the double album edition of The Tortured Poets Department, praising how Malone's appearance suits well with Swift's vocals and gives the bridge "subtle power and hangdog charm".[32] In PopMatters, Igor Bannikov complimented the "buoyant" synth-pop production and acclaimed the track as "the best opening track in her career".[26] Zoladz complimented the lyrics, describing "Fortnight" as a "potent [reminder] of how viscerally Swift can summon the flushed delirium of a doomed romance".[37]
In less enthusiastic reviews, Callie Ahlgrim of Business Insider and Laura Molloy of NME deemed "Fortnight" uninventive for Swift's artistry, arguing that its sound is too similar to Antonoff and Swift's previous collaborations.[29][45] Mark Richardson of The Wall Street Journal labelled it "so-so".[25]Variety's Chris Willman regarded the single as a good choice for pop radio, but he contended that it was "not much of an indication of the more visceral, obsessive stuff" for the album's remainder.[28]Paste[46] and Our Culture Mag's Konstantinos Pappis criticized the sound as empty and bland,[47] while Alex Hudson of Exclaim! wrote: "I'm genuinely shocked that a seasoned hit-maker like Swift could possibly consider such a dreary, unmemorable song to be a single."[48]
In the United States, "Fortnight" debuted at number 9 on Adult Pop Airplay and number 13 on Pop Airplay. It tied her own "Shake It Off" (2014) as the highest debut on the former chart, and “Bad Blood" (2015) as the second-highest debut on the latter chart.[51] On the Adult Pop Airplay chart dated June 22, 2024, the single reached number one to become Swift's record-extending 13th chart topper and Malone's second.[52] On the Billboard Hot 100, "Fortnight" debuted at number one on the chart dated May 4, 2024, with first-week figures of 76.2 million streams, 31.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 19,000 copies sold. It registered as the second highest first-week streaming figure since Billboard removed YouTube song user-generated content from its chart metrics in 2020. As Swift's 12th number-one single and seventh number-one debut, it tied Swift with Ariana Grande for the most number-one debuts for a female artist. "Fortnight" also marked Malone's fifth number-one single and first number-one debut.[53] The single spent two consecutive weeks atop the Hot 100.[54]
"Fortnight" also debuted at number one and was Swift's fourth number-one single in the United Kingdom[55] and 12th in Australia.[56] The single also topped the charts in Canada,[57] Singapore,[58] and the United Arab Emirates,[59] as well as Billboard'sHits of the World charts for Hong Kong,[60]Malaysia,[61] and the Philippines.[62] Across other European territories, "Fortnight" reached the top five in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Belgian Flanders, Norway, Sweden,[63] Portugal,[64] Latvia,[65] Lithuania,[66] and Iceland.[67] The track peaked at number two on the chart for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.[68] In Asia-Pacific, "Fortnight" peaked in the top five of Billboard's Hits of the World charts for Taiwan[69] and Indonesia.[70]
Swift wrote and directed the music video for "Fortnight", with cinematography handled by Rodrigo Prieto.[71] Four hours prior to the album's release, Swift posted a teaser for the music video on social media.[72] The music video was released on April 19, 2024. It has a black-and-white cinematography and features Swift and Malone as ex-lovers, and Dead Poets Society's co-stars Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles as mad scientists carrying out tests on Swift.[71][73][74]
The video starts with Swift seen in a white dress, chained to her bed in a mental facility;[75] the bed is suspended on the wall.[23] After a faceless person comes to give her a "Forget Him" pill, Swift is seen wiping her face to reveal tattoos, before walking into a white room filled with typewriters with her and Malone typing;[75][76] she is now seen in a black mourning Victorian dress.[44] Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph thought that this part symbolizes Swift's grievance from a broken relationship, demonstrated by the switch from a white wedding dress to a black mourning dress.[44]Slant Magazine's Alexa Camp wrote that Swift and Malone's typewriting was in "a sort of relationship rehabilitation center where they're tasked with reliving happier memories of each other".[23]
The video then shows scenes of Swift and Malone embracing on a lone highway before being caught up in a tornado that causes loose papers to swirl around them; Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone thought that this part seemingly tells "the story of star-crossed lovers".[75][77] Back at the mental facility, Swift is seen strapped to a gurney, in a laboratory.[74][77] The doctors (Hawke and Charles) perform shock therapy on her as Malone watches from the side.[78][74] In the final scene, Malone calls from a telephone booth that Swift is on top of in the pouring thunderstorm rain, on an isolated cliff. He ultimately comes out of the booth and grabs Swift's hand.[76] The video ends with silent-film credits.[73]
Swift shared via social media that the video summarizes the aspects of the album, "I wanted to show you the worlds I saw in my head that served as the backdrop for making this music. Pretty much everything in it is a metaphor or a reference to one corner of the album or another."[73] According to many publications, the music video evokes the 2023 movie Poor Things.[a] Megan Thomas of CNN wrote that the video is "strange yet beautiful".[77] Power thought that the video had a haunting quality, saying that "here, she gets under our skin like never before".[44] In the French film magazine Première, Anthéa Claux compared the black-and-white cinematography to that of early-20th century silent films such as Frankenstein (1931), Metropolis (1927), and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).[82]
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