Taylor Swift channels her internal showgirl throughout 9 dazzling costume modifications in ‘The Destiny of Ophelia’ music video

The primary music video of Taylor Swift's showgirl period is right here, and it's stuffed with starry moments, as a result of, child, that's present enterprise for you.

The video for "The Destiny of Ophelia" — the debut single off of the 14-time Grammy winner's twelfth studio album The Lifetime of a Showgirl — premiered Friday as a part of an unique launch occasion solely in theaters.

However Swifties around the globe who couldn't make the three-day theatrical engagement had been capable of meet up with "Ophelia" on Sunday night, when the video dropped on YouTube. "The Destiny of Ophelia" opens on the cavernous and baroque foyer of an ornate theater. A lone janitorial employee mops up after the night's festivities, and the digicam — helmed by Swift in director mode — pivots to a tackle artist John Everett Millais' well-known portray of the titular Shakespearean damsel sinking into the waters that declare her life.

After all, right here, Ophelia is performed by Swift — and he or she isn't going wherever. Within the first of 9 costumes, Swift, clad in an extended, Renaissance-style white muslin robe and sporting Converse Now period lengthy, straight hair, sits up because the pastoral scene is actually pulled aside by stagehands, revealed as nothing greater than present enterprise trickery.

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The remainder of "The Destiny of Ophelia" is edited to seem like a single take, biking out and in of assorted scenes, every of which stage Swift in full main woman mode because the star.

A Wagner-esque "Experience of the Valkyries" fashion scene aboard a ship depicts Swift in an extended and wavy copper-colored wig, stealing a sword from a pirate to struggle off his henchmen aboard a clipper ship. In one other vignette, Swift is a part of a Supremes-like lady group entertaining a speakeasy stuffed with jovial patrons. She twists and shouts in a straight black wig and robe stitched collectively from dozens of black diamond patches.

Ever the Easter-egg planter, Swift ends the video partying in a lodge room with the total firm from dancers from the previous showgirl shorts. The digicam cuts into the toilet the place Swift lies partly submerged within the tub — one other nod to Ophelia, but additionally to the album's aqueous cowl.

The title of the observe itself, in fact, refers back to the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Within the drama, Ophelia is a younger noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, who falls in love with Prince Hamlet. When Hamlet kills her father, Ophelia goes mad with grief and finally dies by drowning.

Swift's track, then, tells the story of how a brand new lover (presumably, Travis Kelce) stepped into her life within the nick of time and saved her from the titular destiny of Ophelia.

As a part of the theatrical occasion, dubbed the The Official Launch Occasion of a Showgirl, behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the music video itself was additionally revealed. The 89-minute "movie" additionally included the brand-new lyric movies for your complete album, in addition to cut-by-cut explanations of what impressed the songs.

The album itself, in fact, debuted Friday as nicely. The document was beforehand introduced by Swift when she joined now-fiancé Kelce and his brother Jason's New Heights podcast on Aug. 13 to inform all concerning the new 12-track work, together with track titles, collaborators, and the quilt.

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On the time, Swift additionally described the sound of album, which she promised can be stuffed with "bangers." Travis additionally added his two cents, telling viewers, "They're all 12 bangers. It's much more upbeat and it's much more like enjoyable pop, like pleasure. And so I feel it's an entire 180 from plenty of the songs on Tortured Poets for positive."

As for Showgirl's theme, Swift stated, "I’d say it's every little thing that was occurring behind the scenes [of the Eras Tour]," and her objectives for the album are "melodies that had been so infectious that you just're virtually offended at it and lyrics which are simply as vivid however crisp and centered and utterly intentional."

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