Before each video, Swift gives brief explanations of her thought process behind the song. Here are five highlights:

She wanted ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ to have firm connections to Shakespeare.

The “Ophelia” video opens with Swift mimicking John Everett Millais’s painting of the doomed heroine of “Hamlet.” She

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