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The archetypal euphony video from Swift's caller medium premiered successful movie theaters, but wasn't disposable to ticker astatine location until Sunday night.
Taylor Swift, "The Fate of Ophelia" Courtesy Photo
Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” euphony video is present streaming connected YouTube, pursuing an exclusive aboriginal merchandise to movie theaters lone connected Friday (Oct. 3).
Written and directed by Swift herself, the euphony video for “The Fate of Ophelia” made it online Sunday nighttime (Oct. 5). The reference-filled ocular has the popular prima playing respective parts, oregon showing respective sides — among them the erstwhile ill-fated Ophelia of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the pb successful a Golden Age Hollywood movie musical, a frontwoman to a 1960s miss group, and the modern Swift showgirl that audiences cognize and love.
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Of course, Swift’s azygous imagines an Ophelia who makes her mode retired of a destined tragic ending.
Swift crawls retired of an on-set mentation of the Sir John Everett Millais coating circa the 1850s that famously depicts Ophelia’s drowning, performs antithetic iterations of a “Fate of Ophelia” amusement — successful homage to the likeness of Marilyn Monroe successful 1 country and Ronnie Spector/The Ronettes successful another, and halfway soundstage successful an Anything Goes-inspired ensemble — and ends up soaking successful her bathtub by the clip’s end. She’s presumably exhausted aft playing each the parts, but inactive rather alive.
“The Fate of Ophelia” euphony video wraps with the representation that became the authoritative medium screen for Swift’s recently released The Life of a Showgirl.
Opening-day medium sales for The Life of a Showgirl, arsenic reported by information tracking steadfast Luminate, reached 2.7 cardinal connected its archetypal time of merchandise (Oct. 3). That tally counts accepted medium income (physical and integer purchases) crossed each versions of the album. It marks Swift’s biggest week ever, and the second-largest income week for immoderate medium since Luminate began electronically tracking information successful 1991; Adele presently holds the largest income week with 25. Further news of Showgirl‘s first-week gathering income and streaming enactment volition beryllium disposable successful the coming days.
“The Fate of Ophelia” euphony video was archetypal shown successful theaters arsenic portion of The Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift’s theatrical lawsuit that opened astatine No. 1 astatine the container office this weekend. The screening featured the euphony video premiere and behind-the-scenes footage from making it, positive Swift’s commentary connected each 12 songs from The Life of a Showgirl and a archetypal viewing of each track’s lyric video.
Watch Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” euphony video below.