{"id":1826657,"date":"2023-01-27T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826657"},"modified":"2023-01-27T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:53:15","slug":"taylor-swift-cavorts-with-transgender-model-laith-ashley-in-new-lavender-haze-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-swift-cavorts-with-transgender-model-laith-ashley-in-new-lavender-haze-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Cavorts With Transgender Model Laith Ashley In New \u2018Lavender Haze\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaylor-swift-cavorts-with-transgender-model-laith-ashley-in-new-lavender-haze-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> Music video just dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender<\/a>-identifying model Laith Ashley as Swift\u2019s love interest.<\/p>\n<p>The eagerly awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music video<\/a> For \u201cLavender Haze\u201d The video shows the Grammy Award-winning singer in a new relationship with a purple background. Swift directed the video. It shows Ashley as Swift in the main role, while Swift and Ashley cuddle at a party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Lavender Haze\u2019 video is out now. There is lots of lavender. There is lots of haze,\u201d Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\/status\/1618837765269098496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share<\/a> Twitter teaser clip posted Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is my incredible costar @laith_ashley who I absolutely adored working with. This was the first video I wrote out of the 3 that have been released,\u201d She went on. \u201cThis one really helped me conceptualize the world and mood of Midnights, like a sultry sleepless 70\u2019s fever dream. Hope you like it.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Ashley also shared the video via social media. \u201cThank you so much [Taylor Swift] for allowing me to play a small part in your story. You are brilliant and this is an experience I will never forget,\u201d The model <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laith_ashley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill at a loss for words. Trying to gather myself and my thoughts. I am so grateful,\u201d Ashley sent a follow up tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLavender Haze\u201d is the third song off Swift\u2019s very successful Midnights album to get a music video following videos for \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d  \u201cBejeweled.\u201d The singer suggested that more would be coming in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley, 33, is a well-known figure in the industry and has a flourishing modeling career. The 33-yearold has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/laith-ashley-actor-model-taylor-swift-midnights-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pose<\/a> Diesel and Calvin Klein. Ashley also appeared on the covers of Out magazine, Gay Times and Vogue France. Ashley also appeared on Caitlyn Jenner\u2019s reality show \u201cI Am Cait\u201d The series was regular on in 2016 \u201cStrut,\u201d A short-lived series of Oxygen after the Slay trans modeling agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley was also seen in other music videos, as well as on television. \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race Pit Crew,\u201d \u201cPose,\u201d  \u201cUnconventional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift\u2019s inclusion of a transgender-identifying person in the music video is part of a larger trend in Hollywood and the media to increase trans representation. Burberry recently featured what appeared to be a transgender person in a fashion ad on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood has promoted the inclusion of trans-identifying stars by using their inclusion in movies and TV as a badge o honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Taylor Swift music video just dropped featuring transgender-identifying model Laith Ashley as Swift\u2019s love interest. The highly anticipated music video for \u201cLavender Haze\u201d shows the Grammy Award-winning singer enjoying a new relationship, all in a smoky purple backdrop. The video, which was written and directed by Swift, shows Ashley in the main role &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1826660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16765,16769,16767,16766,16768,7390,7366,4656,4019,4440],"class_list":["post-1826657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-lavender","tag-ashley","tag-cavorts","tag-haze","tag-laith","tag-model","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-transgender","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}