On January 12, 2018, Swift uploaded the video onto her Vevo channel.[44] Directed by Joseph Kahn, the video depicts Swift partying at three locations during nighttime: with Future and partygoers on a yacht in Miami, with Sheeran at a nightclub in Tokyo, and with various friends on a double decker bus in London.[45] While singing/rapping with Future, Swift is seen riding shotgun in a Lamborghini Aventador with him.[46] In one of the London scenes, Swift is seen sitting on a bar playing Snake on a handheld game console, a reference to her reputation as a “snake” during promotion of the album.[47] This reference is also noted in one of the Tokyo scenes, in which Swift rides a motorcycle in a snakeskin-patterned bodysuit.[46] The superyacht MIZU was used for the Miami filming.[48]

Frank Guan from New York observed that the video effectively eschewed Swift’s previously well-known girl next door image, by “drinking, playing a game on her mobile phone, hamming it up at a karaoke bar, cheerfully failing at Dance Dance Revolution, really getting into Future, having a crowd of friends with only a few white girls and no white guys [apart from Ed Sheeran] in sight”. Guan was impressed by the video’s nighttime aesthetics featuring darkness against flashing lights and vivid colors, writing that “the end result is as simple as it is appealing”.[28] Lyndsey McKenna from NPR Music was less enthusiastic: “It’s pretty hard to buy Swift and Sheeran’s casual outing in Tokyo or Swift’s supposedly uninhibited dance moves.”[49]