{"id":2073995,"date":"2025-10-07T04:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2073995"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:24:32","slug":"watch-taylor-swift-fans-recreate-the-fate-of-ophelia-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-taylor-swift-fans-recreate-the-fate-of-ophelia-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taylor Swift fans recreate &#8216;The Fate of Ophelia&#8217; music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"86551259007\" title=\"TikTok can\u2019t stop dancing to Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/06\/USAT\/86551275007-trnd-new-taylor-swift-dance-goes-viral-thumb.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>TikTok can\u2019t stop dancing to Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d music video dropped, and TikTok creators are recreating the viral dance with their own flair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>Pure showgirl energy. Do you know the moves?<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor <\/a>Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d music video dropped on Sunday, Oct. 5, and some TikTok creators are recreating a viral dance in it with their own flair.<\/p>\n<p>The single is the opening track on the global superstar\u2019s 12th studio album \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/live-story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/02\/taylor-swift-new-album-life-of-a-showgirl-release-updates\/86447099007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/live-story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/02\/taylor-swift-new-album-life-of-a-showgirl-release-updates\/86447099007\/\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>,\u201d released on Friday, Oct. 3, just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-25899f8a-15f2-43de-af20-696d82839a8c\">Before the album dropped last week, Swift explained how she could have suffered what happened to Ophelia \u2212 William Shakespeare\u2019s fictional literary character from the novel \u201cHamlet\u201d \u2212 if not for her new fianc\u00e9,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/travis-kelce\/448240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"86497700007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/05\/unlocking-easter-eggs-taylor-swift-music-video-fate-ophelia\/86538991007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Unlocking the Easter eggs in Taylor Swift&#8217;s music video &#8216;The Fate of Ophelia&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-25899f8a-15f2-43de-af20-696d82839a8c\">\u201cAnd if you\u2019d never come for me \/ I might\u2019ve drowned in the melancholy \/ I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I \/ Right before you lit my sky,\u201d the showgirl sings in the song\u2019s prechorus.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>The singer-songwriter brings \u201cthe heroine center stage <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/03\/taylor-swift-flips-ophelia-fate-showgirl-opening-song\/85978290007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in her pop-infused, foot-tapping\u201d three-minute track<\/a>, USA TODAY Network <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\/\" data-autotag=\"ec0ec3d6-8031-4775-9c6d-550a6d24919d\">Taylor Swift<\/a> reporter Bryan West wrote in his review of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Foot-tapping they are.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s chorus.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/02\/USAT\/86480382007-trnd-fans-make-taylor-swift-showgirl-outfits-thumb.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/02\/USAT\/86480382007-trnd-fans-make-taylor-swift-showgirl-outfits-thumb.jpg?crop=1439,1079,x192,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/02\/USAT\/86480382007-trnd-fans-make-taylor-swift-showgirl-outfits-thumb.jpg?crop=810,1079,x576,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/02\/USAT\/86480382007-trnd-fans-make-taylor-swift-showgirl-outfits-thumb.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"@alltoopaige \/ TikTok\" caption=\"Swifties turn 'Showgirl' for new movie event, 'The Official Release Party of a Showgirl'\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">What is opalite? <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/03\/what-is-opalite-taylor-swift-new-album-life-of-a-showgirl\/86495022007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Explaining the title of Taylor Swift&#8217;s new song.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">\u2018Keep it one hundred\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSo Ophelia drowned because Hamlet just messed with her head so much that she went crazy,\u201d Swift explains in her\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/03\/what-fans-can-expect-for-taylor-swift-showgirl-movie\/86505726007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cOfficial Release Party of a Showgirl\u201d<\/a>\u00a0film, screened in theaters for one weekend. \u201cShe couldn\u2019t take it anymore, and all these men were just gaslighting her until she drowned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the\u00a0Aug. 13 episode\u00a0of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/13\/taylor-swift-live-updates-showgirl-era-new-heights\/85647981007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/13\/taylor-swift-live-updates-showgirl-era-new-heights\/85647981007\/\">New Heights podcast<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>\u201cHe may not have read Hamlet, but I explained it to him,\u201d Swift said of Kelce during the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou dug me out of my grave, saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia,\u201d the lyrics to the love story chorus go. \u201cKeep it one hundred on the land, the sea, the sky. Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing: USA TODAY\u2019s Christina Cardona and Bryan West<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.<\/em><\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-10-06 21:59:40 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-10-06 22:03:33 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/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.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok can\u2019t stop dancing to Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019 Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d music video dropped, and TikTok creators are recreating the viral dance with their own flair. Pure showgirl energy. Do you know the moves? 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