Taylor Swift may no longer be in her Tortured Poets era, but she’s still our English teacher. On Oct. 3, to celebrate her new album The Life of a Showgirl , the singer premiered the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia” exclusively in movie theaters. Not only was it fittingly cinematic, but it also included numerous Easter eggs.

As Swift said in a behind-the-scenes featurette, she envisioned the music video as a historical journey through different iterations of showgirl. “Like, how you would be in the public eye back during the 1800s when you’d sit for a pre-Raphaelite painting,” she explained. “Or you could be a showgirl by being a cabaret burlesque club performer, you could be a theatrical actor putting on a performance, you could be a Vegas showgirl. You could be one of the girl

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