Taylor Swift ditches blonde look in major transformation for new music video

Taylor Swiftsurprised fans with an unrecognisable look in her highly anticipated music video for The Fate of Ophelia, the lead track from her latest studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.

The singer-songwriterwore nine different outfits and had eight different hairstyles in the video. The most shocking transformation was from her signature dark blonde hairdo, to a deep dark brown, shoulder length wavy hairstyle with bangs.

The star wore a dress made of ropes tightly wrapped around her body extending into the ceiling. She sang the bridge of the song and was lifted into the air and out of frame by the ropes.

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A vast array of looks were featured in the music video. In one scene, she channelled her inner Marilyn Monroe with a bedazzled red bodysuit and a platinum blonde bob. She had another astonishing hair change, with dark straight black hair, wearing a disco minidress. She also showed off a fiery red hair look wearing a silver sequin dress.

The Fate of Ophelia takes inspiration from Shakespeare's Hamlet's character, Ophelia and appears to be about her fiancé, Travis Kelce.

Fans expressed their love for the music video and excitedly took to the comments. One said: "She’s the definition of “every colour suits me” blonde, dark, red… all flawless!"

Another shared: "this might be her best [music video] yet, the visuals, the choreography, the storytelling, the wigs everything is so on point and when you say you can’t be amazed this woman just does it again."

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Another commented on her various hairstyles, "The hair is just perfection, the wigs are perfection".

Fans have been patiently waiting for the release of this album since the singer announced it in August 2025. It was released on October 3 with 12 featured songs.

The award-winning artist expressed her feelings towards this album sharing: "This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time" on the New Heights podcast hosted by her fiancé and his brother Jason Kelce.

However, she does not have any interest to take it on tour just yet. "I am going to be so honest with you," she admitted to BBC Radio 1, "Like, I am so tired when I think about doing it again because I would want to do it really, really well again.”

The Eras tour ran from March 2023 to December 2024. She played 149 shows across 51 cities, in five different continents. The tour became the highest-grossing tour of all time.

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