The new rendition of The Life of a Showgirl single is titled the “Alone in My Tower Acoustic Version” <\/p>\n
\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> is stripping things back. Last night, the pop star unveiled \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia (Alone in My Tower Acoustic Version),\u201d an acoustic guitar-led rendition of opening track from her latest album The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>. <\/p>\n \n\tSwift also released the version<\/a> as a limited edition single CD, which features the acoustic take and an instrumental acoustic rendition of the track. The CD is available until Oct. 31 at 4 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tSwift released The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th studio album, earlier this month. She didn\u2019t share any singles ahead of the LP, but did drop a music video<\/a> for \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d following its arrival. The video first premiered as part of\u00a0The Official Release Party of a Showgirl<\/a>, Swift\u2019s film that screened in theaters from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Swift-directed and written visual for the single opens on Swift as the tragic Shakespeare heroine Ophelia from\u00a0Hamlet\u00a0in a painting on the wall of a hotel, before it\u2019s revealed that it\u2019s a set. She then embodies a variety of showgirls from various eras and in elaborate settings, where she\u2019s backed by dancers and the band from her Eras Tour. It culminates in a hotel room where Swift stars as herself.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe success of the track and the music video has had an unusual side effect. Since the video debuted, fans have flocked to Museum Wiesbaden in Germany to see Friedrich Heyser\u2019s 1900 painting Ophelia, which appears to have served as inspiration for Swift. \u201cWe are having an absolute Ophelia run at the moment and are quite surprised and happy about it,\u201d a museum spokesperson, Susanne Hirschmann, told The Guardian<\/a> a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n \n\tShe added, \u201cIt\u2019s been a shock, to be honest. We have a colleague who has a friend who is a Swift fan and she noticed the video\u2019s opening scene had a similarity [with the Heyser painting] and we thought, wow, what a coincidence\u2014that\u2019s exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new rendition of The Life of a Showgirl single is titled the “Alone in My Tower Acoustic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,2897],"class_list":{"0":"post-253322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}