7 d. ago Taylor Swift fans flock to German museum to see painting that inspired The Fate of Ophelia video

The work, by Friedrich Heyser, depicts Hamlet's beloved in William Shakespeare's play. It is on display at Hessische Landesmuseum in the German city of Wiesbaden.

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8 d. ago ‘It’s been a shock’: Taylor Swift fans flock to see German museum’s Ophelia

Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music videoA 200-year-old museum in Germany has found itself in the eye of a storm of delighted Taylor Swift fans when it emerged that one of the probable inspirations for the music video of her new song The Fate of Ophelia was hanging on its wall.In the opening scene of the clip for the first song on Swift’s blockbuster new album The Life of a Showgirl, one of the world’s biggest pop stars assumes the role of the tragic Shakespearean character. The video, released earlier this month, was watched more than 27m times on YouTube in the first three days. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Museum unexpectedly overrun by Taylor Swift fans after painting inspires music video

The Swifties’ goal is an Art Nouveau painting by Friedrich Heyser featuring Ophelia

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2 w. ago All the hidden messages in Taylor Swift's The Fate Of Ophelia music video including several nods to Travis Kelce after THAT raunchy sex song

Taylor Swift's music video for 'The Fate of Ophelia' was full of hidden messages as well as nods to her fiancé Travis Kelce.

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2 w. ago All the Easter eggs in Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ music video

Swift released her 12th studio record ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ last week

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift on ‘thrill of a lifetime’ Fate Of Ophelia music video

The pop superstar takes viewers behind the curtain in the video.

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift shares sexy BTS snaps from The Fate of Ophelia music video as she breaks streaming record

Taylor Swift took to Instagram on Sunday to share behind-the-scenes photos from her latest music video for the song The Fate of Ophelia.

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift exudes provocative showgirl glamour in daring rope dress and brunette hair in new Fate of Ophelia music video

Taylor Swift surprised fans with a number of exciting hair transformations as she debuted her music video for 'The Fate of Ophelia' on Sunday.

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2 w. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s latest track – and what it really tells us

Serena Trowbridge looks at the inspiration behind one of Swift’s latest tracks

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2 w. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia – and what it really tells us

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia (1851-52), one of the most visited paintings at Tate Britain.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift fans go wild over brutal 'Joe Alwyn dig' in The Life of a Showgirl single The Fate of Ophelia

Fans have seized on her latest album's lead single, which about how she 'pledges allegiance to' a love interest who 'dug me out of my grave' and 'saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.'

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