TikTok can’t stop dancing to Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” music video dropped, and TikTok creators are recreating the viral dance with their own flair.
Pure showgirl energy. Do you know the moves?
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” music video dropped on Sunday, Oct. 5, and some TikTok creators are recreating a viral dance in it with their own flair.
The single is the opening track on the global superstar’s 12th studio album “The Life of a Showgirl,” released on Friday, Oct. 3, just after midnight.
Before the album dropped last week, Swift explained how she could have suffered what happened to Ophelia − William Shakespeare’s fictional literary character from the novel “Hamlet” − if not for her new fiancé, Travis Kelce.
“And if you’d never come for me / I might’ve drowned in the melancholy / I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I / Right before you lit my sky,” the showgirl sings in the song’s prechorus.
The singer-songwriter brings “the heroine center stage in her pop-infused, foot-tapping” three-minute track, USA TODAY Network Taylor Swift reporter Bryan West wrote in his review of the song.
Foot-tapping they are.
Videos circulating on TikTok on Monday, Oct. 6, showed fans, some dressed in feathered headdresses and matching skirts, like Swift in her video, spinning around to the new track and singing the song’s chorus.
‘Keep it one hundred’
“So Ophelia drowned because Hamlet just messed with her head so much that she went crazy,” Swift explains in her “Official Release Party of a Showgirl” film, screened in theaters for one weekend. “She couldn’t take it anymore, and all these men were just gaslighting her until she drowned.”
During the Aug. 13 episode of the New Heights podcast, Swift revealed Hamlet helped inspire the new album. The podcast is co-hosted by Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, and his former NFL player brother, Jason Kelce.
“He may not have read Hamlet, but I explained it to him,” Swift said of Kelce during the podcast.
“You dug me out of my grave, saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia,” the lyrics to the love story chorus go. “Keep it one hundred on the land, the sea, the sky. Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes.”
Contributing: USA TODAY’s Christina Cardona and Bryan West
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on X @nataliealund.
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