Taylor Swift fans sang and danced on Sunday to her new hit “The Fate of Ophelia” at a German museum exhibiting a painting thought to have inspired the video for the chart-topper.
Some came as Ophelia, in white dresses with flowers in their hair, while others donned sparkly outfits like those often worn by Swift, as they descended on the western town of Wiesbaden.
They were attending a special event to see the painting by artist Friedrich Heyser, which shows Ophelia, a character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in a white dress floating in a river among flowers before her death.
At the start of the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia”, from her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, Swift appears in what seems to be a mock-up of the work, lying in a white dress before the painting comes alive and she begins to sing.
Since the single’s release last month, Museum Wiesbaden has been flooded with Swift fans seeking to get a glimpse of the work.
“It’s incredible that this picture, which inspired Taylor Swift, is hanging here in Wiesbaden,” Corinna Greiner, a 47-year-old office worker attending Sunday’s event with her daughter, told Agence France-Presse.
