Hours into the official launch of Taylor Swift’s twelfth album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” the famous person continues to toy together with her devoted followers, slowly unraveling the mythology behind the lead single, “The Destiny of Ophelia,” one snippet at a time.
Apparently, Elizabeth Taylor isn’t the one Previous Hollywood muse influencing Swift’s showgirl period. In a latest clip shared by Taylor Nation on Instagram, the singer is seen sporting a shiny pink bodysuit, platinum blond bobbed wig and even a magnificence mark drawn above her higher lip.
The resemblance to the enduring film star Marilyn Monroe is uncanny.
Like Ophelia in “Hamlet,” Monroe herself was a tragic determine. Regardless of many high-profile romances and reaching the top of stardom, Monroe struggled with despair and substance abuse, resulting in her loss of life by drug overdose at age 36 in 1962.
May Swift, who turns 36 in December, be evoking the lore round Monroe’s recognition and premature demise as a celeb model of Ophelia?
Whereas pink sparkles and glitter are featured in costumes all through Swift’s showgirl-era album paintings, it’s the mix of the ruby-encrusted leotard and opera-length gloves paired with the wig (one in every of many worn over the course of the full-length music video) that makes this Marilyn homage something however unintended.
Fortuitously, in Taylor’s model of occasions, she credit her fiancé, Travis Kelce, with saving her from an analogous destiny. “And should you’d by no means come for me / I’d’ve drowned within the melancholy,” she sings, evoking each the doomed Shakespearean character and the enduring Hollywood actress.
Whereas followers are undoubtedly overjoyed that Ms. Swift has prevented the tragic ending alluded to within the track, Swifties world wide are nonetheless deciding the destiny of this album.
The place will it fall amongst Taylor Swift’s particular person eras? With combined opinions following the entire “Lifetime of a Showgirl” drop at midnight, it’s arduous to say whether or not or not this album will reside as much as all the razzle-dazzle.
This time, it would take greater than Travis to elevate this showgirl to new heights.
