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Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia


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LadyxGaGa

when is the video coming to apple music !!!

i can’t keep the video going in the background with youtube !!!

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It’s amazingly well done in terms of cinematography. Nothing particularly interesting though, it adds nothing to the song or to Tay’s videography.

I kinda see this as the Million Reasons video if it was amazingly done mixed with ME!

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BOTphelia

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1+2 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video) - 19,733,002 (bigger than debut day??)

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LadyxGaGa
12 minutes ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

BOTphelia

Youtube 24 hour update

1+2 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video) - 19,733,002 (bigger than debut day??)

i hope it keeps doing well i was surprised to come back a couple days after it came out that it’s already almost to 50 mil

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Mirrion Rizzons
1 minute ago, LadyxGaGa said:

i hope it keeps doing well i was surprised to come back a couple days after it came out that it’s already almost to 50 mil

pretty rare these days! Crazy how 8 years ago and she did it in 1 day with LWYMMD

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LadyxGaGa
4 minutes ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

pretty rare these days! Crazy how 8 years ago and she did it in 1 day with LWYMMD

i remember it being big but i forget how big it rly was all i rly remember is ellen and i would rather not think about her 

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On 10/6/2025 at 6:13 PM, gagafan1394 said:

yet the Ophelia metaphor goes absolutely nowhere other than "she drowned" lol 

100% how I felt. Ophelia’s thing wasn’t that she went crazy because Hamlet was emotionally unavailable…she’s actually, imo, largely a victim of circumstance: she and Hamlet are genuinely in love (and, in my reading, is likely pregnant with his child and anticipated that they’ll be married), Hamlet becomes paranoid because of the conspiracy surrounding the murder of his father, Ophelia (unwittingly) gets roped into spying on him for his uncle who murdered his father, Hamlet feels betrayed upon discovering this and basically says she’s dead to him, and now she’s an unmarried woman pregnant with a child in a time when that was considered deeply shameful and completely unacceptable, and she loses her mind because she feels her fate is sealed and her life is destroyed. Needless to say the song captures basically none of that, so the reference to Ophelia is kind of pointless imo.

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6 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

100% how I felt. Ophelia’s thing wasn’t that she went crazy because Hamlet was emotionally unavailable…she’s actually, imo, largely a victim of circumstance: she and Hamlet are genuinely in love (and, in my reading, is likely pregnant with his child and anticipated that they’ll be married), Hamlet becomes paranoid because of the conspiracy surrounding the murder of his father, Ophelia (unwittingly) gets roped into spying on him for his uncle who murdered his father, Hamlet feels betrayed upon discovering this and basically says she’s dead to him, and now she’s an unmarried woman pregnant with a child in a time when that was considered deeply shameful and completely unacceptable, and she loses her mind because she feels her father is sealed and her life is destroyed. Needless to say the song captures basically none of that, so the reference to Ophelia is kind of pointless imo.

It's like if Lana sang Summer Time Sasness, while there are pictures of her laughing in June... like what's even real anymore ?! :volantis:

But ja, as so often Taylor prefers the look/the sound of something over the actual substance and Ophelia is a pretty name, so there you go. 

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8 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

100% how I felt. Ophelia’s thing wasn’t that she went crazy because Hamlet was emotionally unavailable…she’s actually, imo, largely a victim of circumstance: she and Hamlet are genuinely in love (and, in my reading, is likely pregnant with his child and anticipated that they’ll be married), Hamlet becomes paranoid because of the conspiracy surrounding the murder of his father, Ophelia (unwittingly) gets roped into spying on him for his uncle who murdered his father, Hamlet feels betrayed upon discovering this and basically says she’s dead to him, and now she’s an unmarried woman pregnant with a child in a time when that was considered deeply shameful and completely unacceptable, and she loses her mind because she feels her father is sealed and her life is destroyed. Needless to say the song captures basically none of that, so the reference to Ophelia is kind of pointless imo.

Honestly, it feels almost anti-feminist in how it handles the story of Ophelia (which is very sexist but to be expected given its age). 

Like Ophelia's fate was a result of having no personal agency and being used as a pawn by the men around her. 

And now Swift is essentially saying "i was saved from being Ophelia because a man saved me". 

Its disappointing. I wished the actual message was Ophelia saving herself. 

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On 10/10/2025 at 9:50 PM, Ladle Ghoulash said:

100% how I felt. Ophelia’s thing wasn’t that she went crazy because Hamlet was emotionally unavailable…she’s actually, imo, largely a victim of circumstance: she and Hamlet are genuinely in love (and, in my reading, is likely pregnant with his child and anticipated that they’ll be married), Hamlet becomes paranoid because of the conspiracy surrounding the murder of his father, Ophelia (unwittingly) gets roped into spying on him for his uncle who murdered his father, Hamlet feels betrayed upon discovering this and basically says she’s dead to him, and now she’s an unmarried woman pregnant with a child in a time when that was considered deeply shameful and completely unacceptable, and she loses her mind because she feels her fate is sealed and her life is destroyed. Needless to say the song captures basically none of that, so the reference to Ophelia is kind of pointless imo.

EXACTLYYYYY

it's clear she didn't read the play (nor do I buy she's EVER read a full play by Shakespeare - let alone his LONGEST ONE lmao?) 

like girl you're my "English teacher?" I'm gonna fail the AP exam..... 

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