Taylor Swift has launched a music video for ‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’, making it the primary official single from her new report ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ – test it out under.
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Swift launched her twelfth studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ on Friday (October 3), the follow-up to final yr’s ‘The Tortured Poets Division’. Now, she’s revealed the album’s first official single as ‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’ via its newly debuted music video.
The video first premiered over the weekend at The Official Launch Social gathering Of A Showgirl screenings that came about in cinemas – the 90-minute “movie” featured the music video, its behind-the-scenes course of and lyric movies of the album’s tracks in addition to Swift’s commentary on each music from the report.
The music video for ‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’ is now publicly obtainable and confirms that it was written and directed by Swift herself. The clip sees the musician personify a showgirl via a number of eras in historical past as she’s backed by her ‘Eras’ tour band and dancers.
Throughout numerous intricate set items, Swifts cosplays a showgirl in quite a few eras, depicting herself as a pirate, a burlesque singer and different traditional imagery. The music video ends with Swift starring as herself within the bathtub of a lodge room – which additionally occurs to be the official cowl artwork for ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’.
As quickly as ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ dropped, followers began sharing their ideas on the report, with some calling it “her greatest album” and the return of “pop perfection”, and others declaring it “the worst Taylor Swift album but” and “boring and fundamental”. It’s also possible to discover the vary of Easter eggs and references on the album right here.
She has additionally indicated that she has no intention of heading out on tour once more anytime quickly, after the gargantuan effort that went into her record-breaking ‘Eras’ tour.
One of many greatest speaking factors from the report thus far has been the observe ‘Truly Romantic’, which is broadly rumoured to be a diss observe directed at Charli XCX. “I heard you name me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s bought you courageous,” Swift sings on the music. “Excessive-fived my ex after which mentioned you’re glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a music saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some individuals is likely to be offended / However it’s really candy.”
Many thought-about this a rebuttal to Charli’s ‘Sympathy Is A Knife’ from ‘Brat’, on which she sang: “Don’t know if I’m spiralling / One voice tells me that they snort / George says I’m simply paranoid / Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present / Fingers crossed behind my again / I hope they break up actual fast.”
Swift has since mentioned ‘Truly Romantic’ is “a music about realising that another person has sort of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you just didn’t learn about. And impulsively they begin doing an excessive amount of and so they begin letting you realize that really, you’ve been residing of their head rent-free and also you had no thought.”
