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IT’s almost the curtain call for Taylor Swift’s Grand Showgirl Weekend. AFTER DOMINATING The Box Office with Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a ShowgirlSwift has one last trick up her sleeve for the Weekend: a new Music Video, which first premiered (twice!) In theaters. For THose who didn’t get a chance to see “the fate of ophelia” premiere at a cinema, iTi’s now on youtube for you to find every Easter Egg and showbiz Footnote made by swift. Luckily, We Saved You Some of the Guesswork and Found the references to some of Swift’s Favorite showgirls. Now, Rolls the Credits…
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The Most Obivious Reference Throughout The Entire Music is John Everett Millais’s 1850 Painting “Ophelia.” Swift mentions this in the bTs of the video, where, in the beginning, she ses up the shot of Hersself lying down in the painting before coming. She Also References Ophelia’s Death Later During A Huge Sparkly Dance Number.
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It would be a crime if swift didn’t mention monroe and thankfully she’s off the hook. Swift Wears a Shiny Red Leotard with a Short Bright Bleachella Colored Wig, Very Similar to Monroe’s Signature Cut.
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Nor Swift Moves into a trio and dyes her hair black – donta’t we all want to be that after the much bleach – swift’s new crew is loking a whole like The RonettesWith the Matching Dresses, Groovy Moves, and 1960s Stage.
Waterhouse has many paintings of ophelia and other shakespeare -pired works, so it’s not surprising that swift came Across his art we study her first music video back “i can with a broken Heart.” One of the First References to his “Lady of Shalott” painting coma Towards the beginner of the video, Featuring One of Swift’s Sourdough BREAD LAVES AND A STATUE OF OLIVIA, CAT.
Howver, Swift Makes the Biggest Reference to Waterhouse’s Painting of Miranda from Shakespeare’s The Tempest When she shakes a florence welch-like wig while trying to stay aboard a ship in a Storm.
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Another Direct Reference Explained by Swift, She Mentions that the Next Sequence With The Dancers Wearing Swim Caps is inspired by the films and choreography of Busby Berkeley Movies, like the one for Footlight parade.
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“The Fate of Ophelia” is a love Letter to the eras Tour, Featuring All the Dancers and Background Singers Throughout the video. Swift is the ultimate showgirl, and rightfully so; She paid homage to the past two years of her life on Tour. She wears a fluffy jacket, simillary to the one she and wears on Stage During “Lavender haze.”