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The Fate of Ophelia
The Life of a Showgirl · 2025
“Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia”
The music video opens by recreating Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia (c.1900, Museum Wiesbaden) as a living picture — a drowned woman afloat among water lilies. Its composition descends from Millais, but it is Heyser's version that the opening tableau stages, before the video moves through other Ophelias. Community viewers identified the specific painting, and the hosts confirmed the catch in the episode, noting the video layers several sources rather than one.
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