‘It’s been a shock’: Taylor Swift fans flock to see German museum’s Ophelia

<p>Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music video</p><p>A 200-year-old museum in Germany has found itself in the eye of a storm of delighted Taylor Swift fans when it emerged that one of the probable inspirations for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM">music video</a> of her new song The Fate of Ophelia was hanging on its wall.</p><p>In the opening scene of the clip for the first song on Swift’s blockbuster new album The Life of a Showgirl, one of the world’s biggest pop stars assumes the role of the tragic Shakespearean character. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM&amp;list=PLINj2JJM1jxMKUSiMcZPYvORDFh5sa8XH">The video</a>, released earlier this month, was watched more than 27m times on YouTube in the first three days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/16/taylor-swift-fans-german-museum-fate-of-ophelia-painting">Continue reading...</a>