The showgirl has done it again: she’s taken a classic tragedy and reshaped it into a modern romantic anthem. Taylor Swift ’s newest single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” the opening track on The Life of a Showgirl, shows her doing what she does best: transforming tragedy into triumphant storytelling. “The Fate of Ophelia” invokes Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the doomed Ophelia, but Swift flips the script: instead of drowning in heartbreak, she sings of being saved from that tragic fate. In “The Fate of Ophelia,” Swift has done what she is famously known for — she reinterpreted the famous water-drowning fate of the tragic heroine into something more powerful — not just sorrow, but redemption and emotional survival. The song in question – “The Fate of Ophelia” – released October 3, is the lea

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