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Taylor Swift ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ x ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Dance: Watch

by jummy84 October 6, 2025

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Twenty years before Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” was recorded, a character named Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) was leaning into his uniqueness with a magnificently awkward dance routine, as seen in a memorable scene from the 2004 coming-of-age comedy Napoleon Dynamite. His sweet moves were soundtracked by Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat,” but anyone who hasn’t seen the movie — and who happens to stumble upon the fan-made “Ophelia” x Napoleon Dynamite mashup making the rounds — just might think the choreo was meant to be paired with Swift’s 2025 single instead. Because it’s actually perfect.

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Swift fan @betterspiritsprintco on Instagram posted the funny edit on Friday (Oct. 3), the release day of the pop star’s twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, which is already setting records; as of press time on Sunday, the Instagram post has been liked by more than 63,000 Instagram accounts.

The video’s caption: “how it feels to listen to the fate of ophelia.” The comments section unanimously agreed.

Featuring the aforementioned Napoleon Dynamite-dance moment, the edited clip shows the quirky protagonist getting his groove on to an audio clip of “The Fate of Ophelia,” Showgirl’s opening track and first single (and the first song from the set to get an official music video, which dropped online on Sunday after premiering at movie theaters on Friday during the box office-topping The Release Party of a Showgirl).

Somehow, the timing of it all is just right. Napoleon hits his marks. Subtle reactions from the audience are spot-on.

Just wait until you get to the moves synced to Swift’s lyric “I swore my loyalty to me, myself, and I” — it only gets better from there.

Watch the fan edit of “The Fate of Ophelia” and Napoleon Dynamite dancing on Instagram here.

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Watch Taylor Swift personify a showgirl across several eras in ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ music video

by jummy84 October 6, 2025

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Taylor Swift has released a music video for ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’, making it the first official single from her new record ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ – check it out below.

READ MORE: Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour comes to an end: a look at its massive global impact

Swift released her 12th studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ on Friday (October 3), the follow-up to last year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. Now, she’s revealed the album’s first official single as ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ through its newly debuted music video.

The video first premiered over the weekend at The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl screenings that took place in cinemas – the 90-minute “film” featured the music video, its behind-the-scenes process and lyric videos of the album’s tracks as well as Swift’s commentary on every song from the record.

The music video for ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ is now publicly available and confirms that it was written and directed by Swift herself. The clip sees the musician personify a showgirl through several eras in history as she’s backed by her ‘Eras’ tour band and dancers.

Across various intricate set pieces, Swifts cosplays a showgirl in numerous eras, depicting herself as a pirate, a burlesque singer and other classic imagery. The music video ends with Swift starring as herself in the bathtub of a hotel room – which also happens to be the official cover art for ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’.

As soon as ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ dropped, fans started sharing their thoughts on the record, with some calling it “her best album” and the return of “pop perfection”, and others declaring it “the worst Taylor Swift album yet” and “boring and basic”. You can also explore the range of Easter eggs and references on the album here.

She has also indicated that she has no intention of heading out on tour again anytime soon, after the gargantuan effort that went into her record-breaking ‘Eras’ tour.

Taylor Swift, 2025. Credit: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot

One of the biggest talking points from the record so far has been the track ‘Actually Romantic’, which is widely rumoured to be a diss track directed at Charli XCX. “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave,” Swift sings on the song. “High-fived my ex and then said you’re glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some people might be offended / But it’s actually sweet.”

Many considered 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 laugh / George says I’m just paranoid / Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show / Fingers crossed behind my back / I hope they break up real quick.”

Swift has since said ‘Actually Romantic’ is “a song about realising that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn’t know about. And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you’ve been living in their head rent-free and you had no idea.”

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Taylor Swift Releases ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Video: Watch

by jummy84 October 6, 2025

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The musician portrays the song’s titular Shakespeare character alongside other showgirls, including herself in new clip

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl era is in full swing and to cap off the album’s stellar debut weekend, she’s released the music video for its first official single, “The Fate of Ophelia.” The video first premiered this weekend in The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift’s film which screened in theaters from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5.

The Swift-directed and written visual for the single opens on Swift as the tragic Shakespeare heroine Ophelia from Hamlet in a painting on the wall of a hotel, before it’s revealed that it’s a set. She then embodies a variety of showgirls from various eras and in elaborate settings, where she’s backed by dancers and the band from her Eras Tour. It culminates at a hotel where Swift stars as herself.

Unlike Hamlet’s noblewoman Ophelia, whose plight in a patriarchal society finds her powerless, spiraling into madness and leads to her tragic end by drowning, Swift’s Ophelia triumphs. Per the lyrics, the heroine “pledges allegiance” to a presumed love that “dug me out of my grave and/Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia,” and declares “now you’re mine.” Like with the Romeo and Juliet of Swift’s “Love Story,” Ophelia, whose star-crossed love of Hamlet leads to her demise in Shakespeare’s version, instead gets a fairy-tale-style happily ever after, too.

Following the digital premiere of “The Fate of Ophelia” video, Swift is sharing lyric videos for all of the songs from The Life of a Showgirl, as she did in The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.

Swift has had an impressive opening weekend sales-wise with both her limited-release film and album. The Official Release Party of a Showgirl hit Number One in the box office, with early projections expecting it to rake in between $28 million and $32 million from 3,702 theaters during its limited Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 domestic theatrical run (worldwide box office estimates for its weekend premiere put it at $46 million). Meanwhile, The Life of a Showgirl sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales — combined physical and digital — from all versions of the album on its first day of release on Oct. 3 alone. That number represents Swift’s biggest album sales week ever, and Swift’s album looks to potentially eclipse the sales record held by Adele’s 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its debut week in 2015.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Video Is Up on YouTube Now: Watch

by jummy84 October 6, 2025

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Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” music video is now streaming on YouTube, following an exclusive early release to movie theaters in the U.S. on Friday (Oct. 3).

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Written and directed by Swift herself, the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” made it online Sunday night (Oct. 5). The reference-filled visual has the pop star playing several parts, or showing several sides — among them the once ill-fated Ophelia of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the lead in a Golden Age Hollywood movie musical, a frontwoman to a 1960s girl group, and the modern Swift showgirl that audiences know and love.

Of course, Swift’s single imagines an Ophelia who makes her way out of a destined tragic ending.

In the accompanying music video (seen below), Swift crawls out of an on-set version of a Sir John Everett Millais painting circa the 1850s that famously depicts Ophelia’s drowning. She performs different iterations of a “Fate of Ophelia” show — in homage to the likenesses of Marilyn Monroe in one scene and Ronnie Spector/The Ronettes in another, and center soundstage in an Anything Goes-inspired ensemble — and ends up soaking in her bathtub by the clip’s end. She’s presumably exhausted after playing all the parts, but still quite alive.

“The Fate of Ophelia” music video wraps with the image that became the official album cover for Swift’s newly released The Life of a Showgirl.

Earlier on Sunday, Swift’s team posted a short interview clip that has the singer-songwriter explaining how the album art came to be.

“There was this moment in the photo shoot [with photographers Mert Alaş and Marcus Piggott] right at the end of the day, the last setup, I’m in this bathtub in this bedazzled dress,” she said. “They take my picture. I see it on the monitor. I see it pop up. Even though it was at the weirdest angle, and I’m in the bathtub, I’m just like, ‘That’s the cover.’ And it was.”

She added, “I went and looked at the picture like, ‘Yeah. That’s it.’ I think it represents to me that you’ve done all this work, you’ve done a three-and-a-half hour show, you’ve done the lead-up to it, you’ve done the warm-ups, you’ve gotten through it. Anything that could’ve gone wrong, you sidestepped. You finally get back, what do you do? You take a bath.”

“That’s what I do in those situations,” she said. “It’s like that moment of relaxation. That moment the cameras are down, the lights are off. What do you have to say? What’s your story? Who are you then? That’s really the story of this album.”

Opening-day album sales for The Life of a Showgirl, as reported by data tracking firm Luminate, reached 2.7 million on its first day of release (Oct. 3). That tally counts traditional album sales (physical and digital purchases) across all versions of the album. It marks Swift’s biggest week ever, and the second-largest sales week for any album since Luminate began electronically tracking data in 1991; Adele currently holds the largest sales week with 25. Further news of Showgirl‘s first-week building sales and streaming activity will be available in the coming days.

“The Fate of Ophelia” music video was first shown in theaters as part of The Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift’s theatrical event that opened at No. 1 at the box office this weekend. The screening featured the music video premiere and behind-the-scenes footage from making it, plus Swift’s commentary on all 12 songs from The Life of a Showgirl and a first viewing of each track’s lyric video. It also revealed an unexpected co-star appearing in “The Fate of Ophelia” video: a loaf of Swift’s homemade sourdough bread.

October 6, 2025 0 comments

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Is Charli XCX About to Drop a Taylor Swift Response Song? Fans Think So

by jummy84 October 6, 2025

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Sympathy is a knife—and Charli XCX may be sharpening hers. On October 4, the 33-year-old pop star shared a clip that has fans bracing for more Taylor Swift discourse.

In case you haven’t listened to this year’s most-streamed album in a single day on Spotify or been on the internet over the weekend, here’s a brief rundown on what you need to know: Back in the summer of 2023, Swift briefly dated Matty Healy who is in The 1975 with Charli XCX’s husband, George Daniel. A year later, Charlie XCX released the Brat track “Sympathy is a Knife,” which grapples with her insecurities over the success of another female artist in close proximity.

“Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show,” she sings on the track. “Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick.” Another line from the song:

At the time, Taylor Swift publicly praised Charli XCX for the success of the album, but fans of both artists think her new song, “Actually Romantic,” reveals bad blood. For example, Swift sings that her subject “wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face” and “high-fived my ex and then you said you’re glad he ghosted me.”

There seem to be more connections between the two songs, which you can read about here.

Reaction to the supposed diss track have been mixed, with some criticizing Swift for “missing the point” of “Sympathy Is a Knife,” while others have defended Swift, suggesting there’s more to the pop stars’ complicated history than a single song. You can read about all that here.

Now that you’re all caught up, let’s get to the update. On October 5, Charli XCX posted an image of a recording studio alongside five seconds of sharp, ominous audio. She didn’t add any more context, simply captioning the post with a heart.

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Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” Music Video Delivers Glam

by jummy84 October 5, 2025

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Taylor Swift’s new music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” made its official premiere in movie theaters as part of the weirdly reverential The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. But now, you can see her full vision for the leadoff track from The Life of a Showgirl on YouTube, accompanied by 11 lyric videos for the album’s remaining songs.

The music video, written and directed by Swift (it says so in big letters at the end) showcases Swift embodying “showgirl” personas from across various points in history, including a pirate wench, a star of Busby Berkeley-esque musicals, and more tragic heroines.

During The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift revealed that the video featured a happy reunion of the dancers who appeared on stage during The Eras Tour, as well as choreography by the renowned Mandy Moore and cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto, a four-time Oscar nominee for films including Brokeback Mountain and Killers of the Flower Moon. Also, it’s very important to know that the loaf of bread featured in one shot of this video was baked by Taylor herself.

Charli XCX Posts Cryptic Video Amid Rumored Taylor Swift Feud

by jummy84 October 5, 2025

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The opening song on Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl references the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, who faces a tragic fate.

According to the song’s lyrics, Taylor “might’ve drowned in the melancholy” if she hadn’t been saved by her true love.

“I heard you calling / On the megaphone,” Taylor sings. “You wanna see me all alone.”

The lyrics appear to be a nod to Travis Kelce calling Taylor out on his New Heights podcast for not meeting him at her Eras Tour, which is how their romance began.

“I swore loyalty to me, myself and I,” the lyrics continue. “Right before you lit my sky up.”

Before meeting Travis, Taylor was fresh off a breakup from Matty Healy, having declared herself one of the “independent girlies” in July 2023.

But after Travis went to her concert in Kansas City that same month, sparks began to fly.

Now, Taylor’s fiancé is even in on her Easter egg game, teasing “The Fate of Ophelia” lyrics on Instagram back in July. (Had some adventures this offseason,” he captioned pics with Taylor, adding, “Kept it [100].”)

How does that connect to Taylor’s song? Well, as the lyrics go, “You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia / Keep it one hundred.”

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11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Taylor Swift, Malibu, and More

by jummy84 October 5, 2025

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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Taylor Swift, Malibu, Kelly Moran, Snooper, Nala Sinephro, Thirteendegrees º, Peel Dream Magazine, Blue Lake, Klein, Prewn, and Agriculture. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

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Taylor Swift: “Actually Romantic” Track Review

by jummy84 October 5, 2025

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In 2010, Taylor Swift wrote the jaunty diss track “Mean,” about, strangely enough, Bob Lefsetz, a longtime music industry pundit who had viciously panned her performance at the 2010 Grammy Awards. For his part, Lefsetz initially hemmed and hawed over the narrative, but eventually came to embrace it. “Mean” does not stand amongst the best songs on Speak Now, but, as the music YouTuber Todd in the Shadows once pointed out, it is profoundly revealing about Swift’s psyche: “Someday, I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me.”

Flash forward to 2016. Swift was locked in a feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West over the lyrics to “Famous,” from West’s album The Life of Pablo. She was on the verge of claiming the moral high ground when Kardashian dropped her ace in the hole: video footage of Swift seeming to approve—and even laugh over—the lyric “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” Swift went on to release “Look What You Made Me Do” as the first single from 2017’s Reputation. The whole affair felt tawdry and camp without being whatsoever fun, but at least she was punching sideways.

It’s 2025 now, Taylor Swift is the biggest pop star on the planet—Time’s Person of the Year big, repeatedly breaking her own sales records with every new release big—and she (allegedly, seemingly) can’t stop thinking about Charli XCX. “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave,” she sings on “Actually Romantic,” one of the lowlights off her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. For those somehow mercifully out of the loop, Charli XCX just married the 1975’s George Daniel, bandmate of Swift’s recent ex Matty Healy; on the Brat cut “Sympathy is a knife,” she grappled with being thrust into the orbit of a female pop star several times her stature. “Actually Romantic” is just, well, mean. And worse, it’s dumb: “Like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse, that’s how much it hurts.” No working it out on the remix to be had here.

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Taylor Swift would be a great spy

by jummy84 October 5, 2025

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5 October 2025

Taylor Swift thinks she’d make a great spy.

Scott Mills with Taylor Swift

The Love Story hitmaker believes she has the skills to work as a secret agent and thinks she’s particularly good at moving around without being detected because she has had plenty of experience in her life.

In her upcoming appearance on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, host Scott Mills said: “Gloria Estefan was once asked by the CIA to become a spy. Have you ever been asked because you’d be a great spy. Think about all the secrets you have to keep.”

Taylor – who infamously hid in a cleaning cart to be transported to the stage on her Eras tour – quipped: “Yeah, but that’s classified, unfortunately.”

Discussing which aspects of being a spy she’d be good at, she added: “Oh God, I think the entering and exiting buildings without being seen.

“Just put me in a garbage can and roll me. I don’t care honestly no…I can fit in like a purse…

“Look here’s the thing sometimes. I just can’t deal with it. Yeah, and in those times I won’t deal with it. So yeah, I’m just digging tunnels under every building I go into. Airlifting in through the skylight.”

The 35-year-old pop star confirmed she warns friends if they are mentioned in her songs before the tracks are made public.

She said: “If they’re real people, yeah. Yeah, if they’re real people. And like if it’s like Elizabeth Taylor, we go to their family and her estate and let them know and they were lovely about it.”

Asked if she had to call any pals before releasing her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, she said: “Yeah, there’s, I mean, one of my best friends from high school, my best friend from high school, but one of my best friends in my whole world, Abigail, we met when we were 14 years old, and there’s a line in the song Ruin the Friendship that says ‘Abigail called me with the bad news’.

“And so I had to like, you know, tell her, ’cause she’s been mentioned in songs before, there’s a song called Fifteen and she’s mentioned in it, but I obviously want to tell her.”

Listen to The Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Scott Mills on Monday (06.10.25) from 8:00am to hear the full interview.

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