Look what she made them do.
Taylor Swift followers are flocking to a German museum to view a portray of the Shakespeare character Ophelia that the pop star reimagined in a music video for a music off her new album “The Lifetime of a Showgirl.”
Within the video for “The Destiny of Ophelia,” which has already been seen over 68 million instances, the portray — housed within the Museum Wiesbaden — comes alive and Swift stars as its topic, donning a white robe and mendacity on a mattress of water lilies.
The museum, which is situated within the central German state of Hessen, welcomed lots of extra guests than standard final weekend — as Swifties swooped in to catch a glimpse of the over-100-year-old oil portray by German artist Friedrich Heyser.
“We’re having an absolute Ophelia run in the meanwhile and are fairly stunned and joyful about it,” museum spokesperson Susanne Hirschmann advised The Guardian.
“It’s been a shock, to be sincere. We have now a colleague who has a buddy who’s a Swift fan and she or he observed the video’s opening scene had a similarity [with the Heyser painting] and we thought, wow, what a coincidence – that’s thrilling … that is the primary time we’ve actually had a run on a portray.”
“It’s much more teenagers than we normally see,” Hirschmann added.
She can also’t assist however surprise if Swift herself visited the museum again in July 2024, throughout her German leg of her Eras Tour.
“That may be really insane!” Hirschmann advised the outlet.
“We did ask ourselves: How did this come about? Did she choose the portray out? Has she seen it for herself? Was it a member of her group? I feel if Taylor Swift got here right here, even incognito, we’d have observed.”
The museum is capitalizing on its newfound recognition by internet hosting a particular tour known as “Taylor Swift’s ‘Ophelia’ on the Wiesbaden museum” on Nov. 2 — and people who costume because the billionaire songstress or her muse Ophelia can attend it without cost.
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