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Taylor Swift's video for 'The Fate of Ophelia' includes multiple personal Easter eggs referencing fiancé Travis Kelce, contributing to the album's record-breaking 2.7 million first-day sales.
- The music video premiered on YouTube Sunday, October 5, 2025 after debuting in movie theaters Friday, and Taylor Swift wrote and directed the visual as part of the album’s theatrical release event.
- Inspired by John Everett Millais’s 1851-52 Ophelia painting, Swift framed the video to mirror The Life of a Showgirl album cover and credited Travis Kelce with saving her heart from that fate.
- Fans noticed multiple nods to Travis Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs tight end, including Swift catching a football, his No. 87 on a hotel room door, and a fan-suspected vanity mirror photo.
- Timed as a gift, the video dropped on Kelce’s 36th birthday, Luminate reported 2.7 million first-day album sales, and fans raced to decode Easter eggs.
- Swift will promote the album on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 6th and on Late Night with Seth Meyers on October 8th, while lyric videos on YouTube accompany a barely more than two-day theatrical release window.
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