Taylor Swift divides the clip for “The Fate of Ophelia” after a cinema term on YouTube
The publication of the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” on YouTube is now introducing Swift’s era of The Life of a Showgirl for a wider audience. Previously, the clip in selected cinemas was seen together with the film “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl”. According to the “CNBC”, this brought in 46 million euros and thus entered the cinema history as the largest album debut event.
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Insights into the music video “The Fate of Ophelia”
On the night of Monday, October 6th, the music video for Taylor Swift’s first single “The Fate of Ophelia” came from her twelfth studio album the Life of a Show Guard the video platform YouTube. There it generated almost seven million views after seven hours. If you watch the video, it becomes clear why it was first shown on cinema screens. The artist can be seen in various roles to references from her song. The most obvious is her reference to the character Ophelia from Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet”. She already reveals this in the title of the song and even added it at the end of the video and on the album cover.
But now get out of the cinema space and into the Internet. The music video of “The Fate of Ophelia” is about:
Taylor Swift writes the death of Shakespeare characters for the second time
The main character Ophelia from the Shakespeare classic “Hamlet” is characterized by obedience to her family and love for Hamlet. The death of her father and numerous intrigue drove her crazy and ultimately led to her death by drowning. In an explanation of the song, Swift reveals that she did not want to accept Ophelia’s death and then wrote a happier end to her. No sooner said than done: Ophelia is saved in Swift’s single “The Fate of Ophelia”, as well as Swift himself from being crazy and dying by lovesickness.
Previously, the 35-year-old songwriter had rewritten the end of the love story of Romeo and Julia. The two Shakespeare characters die after a misguided letter to suicide. This contained the way out for their forbidden love between the two hostile families. In Swift’s song “Love Story” from her second record Fearless, Romeo receives the misguided letter in good time. Taylor Swift wrote the love story of Romeo and Julia a happy ending.