Taylor Swift’s new music video for “The Destiny of Ophelia” made its official premiere in film theaters as a part of the weirdly reverential The Official Launch Occasion of a Showgirl. However now, you may see her full imaginative and prescient for the leadoff observe from The Life of a Showgirl on YouTube, accompanied by 11 lyric movies for the album’s remaining songs.
The music video, written and directed by Swift (it says so in massive letters on the finish) showcases Swift embodying “showgirl” personas from throughout numerous factors in historical past, together with a pirate wench, a star of Busby Berkeley-esque musicals, and extra tragic heroines.
Throughout The Official Launch Occasion of a Showgirl, Swift revealed that the video featured a cheerful reunion of the dancers who appeared on stage throughout The Eras Tour, in addition to choreography by the famend Mandy Moore and cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto, a four-time Oscar nominee for movies together with Brokeback Mountain and Killers of the Flower Moon. Additionally, it’s crucial to know that the loaf of bread featured in a single shot of this video was baked by Taylor herself.
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Swift’s twelfth album offered 2.7 million copies in simply the primary 24 hours of its launch. Our personal Wren Graves, in his review, in contrast it to “a breathless vent to a pal, with alternating spurts of heat, nostalgia, anxious looking out, and teeth-baring sneers.”
Take a look at the brand new music video under.