Taylor Swift's "The Man" Music Video: All the Easter Eggs

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All the Easter Eggs in Taylor Swift’s “The Man” Music Video

27 Feb, 20

Throughout her many years spent in the public eye, Taylor Swift has faced unimaginable scrutiny over both her professional and personal lives.

But the 30-year-old pop star is still chugging along, having released her seventh studio album, Lover, last year to generally favorable reviews. On one of the record’s highlights, “The Man,” Swift ponders how she might be perceived and spoken about if she were a man. To help bring that vision to life, she was made over into Tyler Swift—yes, that’s really her in prosthetics—to play a macho, manspreading dude in the new music video for “The Man,” which she directed herself.

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Swift is a known fan of subtle references in her material, and “The Man” comes full with a basket of Easter eggs. Here are just a few that we caught—knowing her, there are likely many more hidden in there.

Taylor of Wall Street

In the second verse, Swift sings: “I’d be just like Leo in St. Tropez.” From commanding an office to being surrounded by scantily clad women on a boat, the music video draws a few visual parallels to The Wolf of Wall Street, in which Leonardo DiCaprio starred as infamous stockbroker Jordan Belfort.