Taylor Swift; Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall of the Chainsmokers
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Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” has been given the club treatment, thanks to a remix by the Chainsmokers.
On Tuesday, Swift’s official fan account, Taylor Nation, announced on Instagram that the “The Fate of Ophelia (The Chainsmokers Remix)” is now ready to download on iTunes and Amazon Music. Quoting the song’s lyrics, the account quipped that the reimagined version is “wrapping around us like a chain, a crown, a vine.”
The DJ duo celebrated the drop in the comments, writing, “This is truly and honor. we love u T.”
The original “The Fate of Ophelia” featured as the lead track off of Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, and has spent seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The video for the Shakespeare-inspired song premiered last month 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 video begins with the pop star as the tragic heroine Ophelia from Hamlet in a painting on the wall of an ornate and lonely hotel, before it’s revealed that it’s a set. As Swift embodies a variety of showgirls from different eras, she’s backed by dancers and the band from her Eras Tour. The glamorous spectacle ends back in a hotel room where Swift stars as herself in a bathtub, echoing the album’s cover art.
In Rolling Stone‘s review of The Life of a Showgirl praising the album, writer Maya Georgi observes that from “the first Fleetwood Mac-inspired drumroll and melancholy keys of ‘The Fate of Ophelia,’ it’s clear Swift has stepped into uncharted territory.”
“The world might know how Shakespeare’s Hamlet ends, and even how the latest chapter of Taylor’s own love story goes, but the tantalizing melody shaped by a wondrous mix of steel guitar and Omnichord trills makes you want to keep listening to find out just how Swift changed her prophecy,” Georgi adds of the hit opening song.
From Rolling Stone US.
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