Taylor SwiftS “Desert Ophelia“Has premiere online on Youtube, just over 48 hours after it had its first arc on the large screen in theaters across the country. The elaborate music video for the leading single from her new album is united as a Youtube exclusive of the lyric videos for all 11 remaining tracks from her smash”Life on a showgirl“Album.
The “fate for Ophelia” video, directed by Swift herself, has Swift and her dancers and other participants from the ERAS tour that moves superfluously through a variety of costumes and settings. The star’s appearance in the video includes that she appears as a classic showgirl with Marilyn Monroe-style platinum blonde curls; a brunette go-go dancer from the 1960s; An Esther Williams style bathing beauty in a busby Berkeley/MGM Musicals Tableu; And a raven-haired actress who goes a pirate board in an old-school theater environment.
Theater owners often complain about short theater windows, and they will not be shorter than the barely more than two days that “fate for Ophelia” and lyrical videos were exclusively on bio screens this weekend as part of the program called “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party for a Showgirl. “But you will not see many of the cinemas that complain, in this case. still Flowed to theaters anyway. That theater presentation landed with a boffo 33 million US for its Friday-through-Sunday-limited driving. (To promote the incentive to flock to theaters, “release party” included elements that do not go up on Youtube, at least at the moment, as pictures behind the scenes and spoke introductions to each new song.)
Those who saw “The official release party for a showgirl” in theaters got plenty of context to make the “Ophelia” music video and the intention behind it.
“The idea I came up with for this music video was a type of journey through all these different ways in which during time periods, historically, you can be a showgirl,” Swift said after premiere on the video in the theater presentation. “Like how you would be in the public eye back during the 19th century, when you would sit for a pre-raphaelite painting. Or you can be a showgirl by being a cabaret burlesque club artist. You can be a theater actor who puts on a performance. Era tour.”
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One of the reasons for her excitement over the video “Ophelia” is that “is that we all got back together from the ERAS tour,” she said. “All the artists you saw on that stage 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.
There is no look from Travis Kelce, but a football makes a como, because, under the lines, “pledges faith against your hands, your team, your vibes,” captures Swift a ball thrown her way and then immediately throws it behind her. (In the BTS pictures in the movie, Swift is heard to worry about her lack of football experience before she pulls away the move with Aplomb.)
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 “, Swift” wanted to match the framing ideal 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 to which she refers 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 she drowns, described by Gertrude but not directly presented in” Hamlet. ”
“Ophelia drowned that Hamlet just tangled with her head so much that she was crazy and that she couldn’t take it anymore, and all these men just lost her until she drowned,” Swift explained. 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’m 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 sounds Romeo and Juliet from the hook with double suicide.))
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 Shakespearian character drowned itself, as previously noted, but in her film music tribute scene,” we have these life -saving units, which could have prevented it from happening, “she pointed out, with her tongue stuck in the cheek.
Viewers also learned, in the film presentation’s pictures behind the scenes, how a certain very beautiful bread came to make a como. She is seen to go over the shots planned for the next day and remember that some bread around is planned. “Oh, I can bake the bread … Could it be my bread? Can my bread be in the music video?” she says. The next day she is happy to personally add it to the set design. “This is a really exciting day for me as a baker,” she says, “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,” she said, between taking, as she targeted. “Nobody hears this track. Everything any hearing 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. “
Youtube views will go a little towards massive consumption Total that her “The Life of a Showgirl” album has taken up before the video online. Luminat reported Saturday that New album had sold 2.7 million copies on their first day (including pre -orders). The one-day Tally gave the second best sale a total of a full week ago the creation of Soundscan in 1991, and only after the first week for Adele’s “25.” With six days of sales that still comes after that opening day, not to mention a whole week of streaming number-incurring this new video can Swift be prepared to break Adele’s record all the time in the coming days.
The 11 lyrical videos -which roll out on Youtube one by one, start with “Opalite”, after “Ophelia” online premiere -have on the screen -texts supported by repeating video loops by Swift that are managed on the “Ophelia” set.
