“Taylor Swift: The official release party for a showgirl ”has started ospooling in cinemas across the country for its limited three-day commitment, and the theatrical event’s images behind the scenes and personal comments from Swift give fans more insight into the hital bum it promotes.
The tid and a half program (presented in theaters without trailers or other preparations) start with Swift offering a brief introduction and thank you, then goes straight into the premiere of the elaborate music video for “The Life of Ophelia”, followed by behind the scenes of making the fast directed video. Most of the rest of 90 minutes consist of semistatic lyrical videos for the other 11 tracks from the album “Life of a Showgirl”, preceded by Swift, which offers two or three minutes comments on inspiration for songwriting in any case. More BTS pictures from the “Ophelia” shooter are spread throughout the program, which ends with an rise of the opening video -with viewers who now have more insight into where to look for fun moments that have been overlooked at the first show.
Swift discusses the “Ophelia” video and says, “The idea I came up with for this music video was a type of trip during all these different ways in which during time periods, historically, can you be a showgirl … who, how to be in the public eye back in the 19th century, when you were to be a shower. Cabaret-Burles because you can be a play.
In fact, the time-taken star allows to take on several different personalities, including a classic showgirl with a Marilyn-Monroe plateinum Bob Frison, an ’60s Brunette Go-go dancer in a nightclub, an Esther Williams-like bathing beauty at a movie set with a gigantic stairs Raven-Hit-Hite speed. All these different looks show up later in lyrical videos, via short video loops that go behind the gigantic lyrical excerpts.
Serious Swifties will enjoy the music video, and especially the abundant pictures behind the scenes, for the many familiar faces that fill these scenes. One of the reasons for her excitement in sharing all this, she says, is that we all got back together from the ERAS tour; all the artists you saw on that scene are back in this music video, as well as so many of the people who worked behind the scenes to create the ERAS tour. ” It includes everyone from the dancers to production designer Ethan Tobman and choreographer Mandy Moore.
It is not a big spoiler to say that the music video ends with a recreation of the album cover image of Swift mostly submerged in a full glam upholstery. What many fans may not know is that all this was borrowed from a classic painting.
To release the “Ophelia” video “, she wanted to match the framing ideally to the album cover and just frame it exactly so, so that people are like,” oh, so the cover is a reference to the Ophelia painting, and this end is a reference to the cover. “So art history for pop fans!” The painting that she refers to is an approximately 1850 painting of the Shakespeari character Ophelia by British artist Sir John Everett Malais, who depicts the convicted woman who floats and sings in the water before drowning, which is described by Gertrude but not directly made in “Hamlet.
“Ophelia drowned because Hamlet just tangled with her head so much that she went crazy and that she couldn’t take it anymore, and all these men just lost her until she drowned,” Swift explains. But in her version, “What about the hook is that you saved my heart from fate for Ophelia? Like. Basically, are you the reason I didn’t end up like this, tragic, poetic hero girl, who died in a fictional world?”
Admitting That It Might Sound Like “A Stupid Thing To Say,” Swift Goes Ahead and Declares: “I Love Shakespeare … It Holds Up. It’s Actually Not Overhyped! This is now the Second Song Where I ‘Gone Back in And (Am) Like,’ Yo, what if they got married institution of they die? ‘”(The Other One She’s Referring To is, of course,” Love Story “, which lets Romeo and Juliet from the hook.)
There is deeper importance to some of the other images in the music video than may first be intuit by the viewers. For example, the classic film music scene where she and all dancers wear bath capsules and wears life preservatives … It celebrates the famous swimming film Star Esther Williams, Cineastes comes now, but it is also, yes, an Ophelia reference. “Right now we are sitting on the set of what we call our Busby Berkeley-inspired, MGM, screen queen 1930s and” 40s “motifs, she says,” and we have it a bit like a beach/bath/pool thing. And and and ” that is A game on Ophelia. “The character drowned itself, as mentioned earlier, but we have these life -saving units, which could have prevented it from happening.“
Viewers also learn, in the pictures behind the scenes, how a certain very beautiful bread came to make a como. “Oh, I can bake the bread … Could it be my bread? Can my bread be in the music video?” The next day she is happy to add her impressive part to the set design. “This is a really exciting day for me as a baker because my bread is actually a music video star from today.”
A point that comes up when the dancers learn their choreography: “Fate for Ophelia” was actually not played in place to avoid leaks. And so the dancers demanded extra direction because of it. “We’re in secret sauce. No one hears this track. Everything someone is heard in the room is just click. So I also have to be able to inform the dancers, ‘you have to feel this at that moment.'”
As the song’s explanations continue, she gives the clarity to what has quickly emerged as a fan favorite song, “Opalite”, and explains the two color differences that would be lost to most listeners without spelling it.
“Opalite is human opal. I have always loved Opal; my mother has always loved Opal; it is the same way our thing – one of our many things,” says Swift. “And I loved the metaphor for a human opal (AS) You had to make your own happiness in your life. You had to get yourself through some difficult times to get to the positive place you are in now. And I really loved the idea that that man Gemstone Jewel is also a metaphor to choose your own.
Swift has been very reluctant to discuss who her songs are about and at least return to her second album, so she is not about to break the form with it now and discuss the real figures that Swifties think are addressed in the Diss traces “Father Figure” and “Actually romantic.” But she gives context to her thinking about these songs.
The singer says that her basic love for alliteration is why she was designed to George Michael’s “Father Figure”, who is the interpolation on the album, in her new composition of the same name. She felt there was room to work with it for “That line in conjunction with George Michael song is romantic, “but” I always thought it might be cool to use the line “I will be your father figure” as a creative writing and turn it into a story about power, and a story about a young engine and their mentor and how that relationship can change over time … In essence, it ends up in a “Who will win” situation – who will surpass the other? “She does not completely deal with the change of perspective that happens halfway through the texts, but says“ I can relate to both characters in some parts of the song.“
As for “Actually romantic,” which is the talk of the pop-culture internet this weekend because of how it appears to be an adver song to a track charli xcx put out out last year, she describes it ”as sort of a love letter to some of which Else’s story, but you are. As She’s Gotten Older, She Adds, “I’Ve Just Started to Be Like, ‘Oh My Good… You Did So Much With This… It’s Flattering. I don’t Hate you and I don’t think about this, but thank you for all the effort, honestly. Wow. Like, in my industrial, attention is affection, and you’ve given me a whole lot of it, so… ”She then blows the camera a kiss.
She also gets into the driving force for “CANCELED!”, Says she “wanted to write a song about how you can get wiser for it and how you can get sharper … I definitely judge people much less now that I’ve been under the microscope for so long. I only judge people based on who I know they are their actions, not any form of general consensus. “I’m just like: won’t do it.
Sabrina Carpenter does not appear anywhere in the program, with the exception of a movie clip of a duet during the ERAS tour. But Swift has a lot to say about bringing her for the album’s only duet, on the title track.
“We stopped writing it and I was like,” I want Sabrina to sing on this so badly “… she is well equipped for this career. She is so good at moving through the backlash or criticism or people who are unfair to her or pick her.” Are you kidding? … and then when she was touring in Sweden, she took her free days and went and recorded it, and it’s a showgirl for you. “
Those who produce the “release party” and distribute it have clearly avoided calling it a “movie” – but it really counts as one to take a cash receipts. “Showgirl” is without a doubt expected to come out at the top of this weekend’s wholesale, although the album itself is prepared to break records for streaming and sales in 2025, based on the first day results.
