Taylor Swift – “The Fate of Ophelia”

Taylor Swift is back! Her latest single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” dropped on October 3, 2025, as the lead track from her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Co-written and produced with Max Martin and Shellback, it’s a slinky, perky pop anthem that reimagines Shakespeare’s Hamlet heroine Ophelia, not as a tragic victim of madness and drowning, but as a figure saved from doom by love.
Check out the music video above.

Staff Pick: “Inventing David Geffen” (2012)

Screenshot from Inventing David Geffen on PBS

David Geffen is one of the most influential figures in the music and movie industries over the past 50+ years. In 2012, PBS released “Inventing David Geffen,” a documentary about his life and career, as part of the American Masters series. The documentary spans his entire career and features interviews with Geffen and a series of musicians and other influential people from the entertainment business.

Geffen is a very ambitious man. And he’s ruthless. Those qualities served him well as he built his fortune, first in the music business and then in Hollywood. He certainly rubbed many people the wrong way throughout his life and career, but he became a billionaire who could leverage his influence in business, philanthropy and politics.

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