Taylor Swift – The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)

“The Fate of Ophelia” is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released as the lead single from her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on October 3, 2025, through Republic Records. It is a dance-pop and synth-pop track with a new wave groove. The song immediately became a major commercial success, debuting atop the charts in countries such as Australia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden.

Swift wrote and produced “The Fate of Ophelia” with Swedish producers Max Martin and Shellback. It is instrumented by drums, bass, piano, steel guitars, synthesizers, and Omnichord. The lyrics depict Swift pledging herself to an honorable and deserving soulmate, who saves her from a destiny of death similar to that of Ophelia, a character in English playwright William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, whose madness from grief and romantic rejection fatally drowns her.