Taylor Swift loves a great thriller.
From the numerous Easter eggs she drops for followers to releasing albums like The Lifetime of a Showgirl with none singles forward of time, Swift tends to defend her subsequent strikes in cloak-and-dagger secrecy. Now that secrecy has prolonged to her upcoming music video for The Lifetime of a Showgirl‘s Shakespeare-inspired lead single, “The Destiny of Ophelia.”
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For her previous two non-rerecorded albums, Swift launched movies for her lead singles — Midnights‘ “Anti-Hero” and The Tortured Poets Division‘s “Fortnight” — on YouTube on the identical day as their album’s launch. For “The Destiny of Ophelia,” although, followers must go to film theaters first to expertise Swift’s subsequent music video, the place it is taking part in as a part of The Official Launch Celebration of a Showgirl. Operating from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, the 89-minute lengthy movie additionally options behind-the-scenes footage of “The Destiny of Ophelia” video, breakdowns of The Lifetime of a Showgirl‘s songs, and brand-new lyric movies.
However when will followers who cannot make The Official Launch Celebration of a Showgirl be capable to see “The Destiny of Ophelia”?
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When does “The Destiny of Ophelia” premiere on YouTube?
Written and directed by Swift, “The Destiny of Ophelia” music video premieres on YouTube Sunday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. ET. The discharge coincides with Swift’s fiancé Travis Kelce’s thirty sixth birthday.
Within the track, Swift sings about how Kelce saved her coronary heart from the destiny of Hamlet‘s tragic heroine Ophelia, who’s pushed mad when Hamlet spurns her, then drowns. Fittingly, within the pre-chorus, Swift sings, “In the event you’d by no means come for me / I’d’ve drowned within the melancholy.”
The Swift-Ophelia connection would not simply cease with “The Destiny of Ophelia,” although. The album cowl of The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which sees Swift partially submerged in water, is a reference to painter John Everett Millais’ Nineteenth-century portray “Ophelia,” which depicts Ophelia mendacity in a river.
In line with Swift’s interview with BBC Radio 1, “The Destiny of Ophelia” music video was additionally impressed Millais’ portray, bringing the Ophelia reference full circle.
The Official Launch Celebration of a Showgirl is in theaters from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5.
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