{"id":2073839,"date":"2025-10-07T02:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2073839"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:35:37","slug":"the-fate-of-ophelia-music-video-taylor-swift-gets-cinematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-fate-of-ophelia-music-video-taylor-swift-gets-cinematic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fate Of Ophelia music video: Taylor Swift gets cinematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you missed the weekend\u2019s <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/weekend-box-office-taylor-swift-smashing-machine\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">box-office topping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> theatrical event the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Release Party Of A Showgirl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you\u2019re in luck. The centerpiece of that event, the premiere of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate Of Ophelia\u201d music video, has already landed online. In it, Swift is both the showgirl and the director, paying homage to the glamorous muses of stage, screen, and even canvas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"revcontent-hidden\"> <!-- revisit --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe idea I came up with for this music video was sort of a journey throughout all these different ways in which over time periods, historically, you could be a showgirl,\u201d Swift explained in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Release Party<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> behind-the-scenes portion (<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-fate-of-ophelia-music-video-premiere-youtube-1236540694\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">via <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Variety<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). \u201cLike, how you would be in the public eye back during the 1800s, when you\u2019d sit for a Pre-Raphaelite painting. Or you could be a showgirl by being a cabaret burlesque club performer. You could be a theatrical actor putting on a performance. You could be a Vegas showgirl. You could be one of the girls in the Busby Berkeley screen-siren era of the \u201930s and \u201940s. You could be a pop singer on the Eras Tour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_1 --> <!-- mostpopular-start --><!-- mostpopular-end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ko70cExuzZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If \u201cThe Fate Of Ophelia\u201d video is another play for Hollywood credibility (last seen during the awards season push for the ten-minute \u201cAll Too Well\u201d short film), it\u2019s her strongest yet. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Life Of A Showgirl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been met with overall <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mixed reviews<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but this video moves confidently through these showgirl \u201ceras\u201d backed by the same crew from her own Eras tour (that includes the dancers, choreographer Mandy Moore, and production designer Ethan Tobman, per <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Variety<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). It all leads to the image of Swift in the bathtub, revealing that the main album cover is itself a nod to the Sir John Everett Malais painting of Shakespeare\u2019s Ophelia. (\u201cSo, art history for pop fans!\u201d Swift said in the behind-the-scenes explanation.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-x articles-inline-insert\" id=\"inline-related-articles\">\n<ul class=\"articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column\">\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/weekend-box-office-taylor-swift-smashing-machine\"><b class=\"title\">Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s <i>Smashing Machine<\/i> is no match for Taylor Swift&#8217;s <i>Showgirl<\/i> at the box office<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/taylor-swift-no-tour-for-life-of-a-showgirl-tired\"><b class=\"title\">Taylor Swift says she&#8217;s too dang tired to tour <i>Life Of A Showgirl<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asked about her own \u201cnext era\u201d during an appearance on the U.K.\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heart Breakfast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> radio show, Swift promised we \u201carguably haven\u2019t even really started\u201d the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Showgirl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> era yet. \u201cWe\u2019re taking baby steps, we\u2019re putting one foot in front of the other. I love this era, I love the theme of this album, it\u2019s so fun to play with. I wanna make more music videos. I <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/taylor-swift-no-tour-for-life-of-a-showgirl-tired\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actually have time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to do stuff like that.\u201d Maybe all the cinematic references in this video are a hint that she\u2019s going to use her time to get her feature film <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/taylor-swift-film-directorial-debut-searchlight-1849875394\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">directorial debut<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> off the ground. Regardless, you can expect more to come now that the pop star has survived \u201cThe Fate Of Ophelia.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_2 -->                                  <!-- <\/div>\n\n   --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.avclub.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed the weekend\u2019s box-office topping theatrical event the Release Party Of A Showgirl, you\u2019re in luck. The centerpiece of that event, the premiere of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate Of Ophelia\u201d music video, has already landed online. 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