«The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,» in theaters Friday, makes an event out of Taylor Swift’s album «The Life of a Showgirl» with her personal insights.
3 Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, in theaters Friday, is a different sort of film from Swfit’s concert film The Eras Tour. Nevertheless, Swift knows how to make it an event even without a stage performance and focusing on only one album.
Swift does not delay on her promise of a music video for «The Fate of Ophelia», the opening track from her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl. The video opens the film after a brief introduction.
The «Ophelia» video shows Swift as a living pre-Raphaelite painting, a go-go dancer, a Marilyn Monroe styled cabaret act, a Busby Berkeley musical performer, a very interesting image of Swift lying in a bundle of ropes, and more.
After the video, behind-the-scenes footage shows Swift discussing her inspirations and directing her crew, returning from The Eras Tour. Swift says the video reflects a journey through various historic ideas of showgirls, from the cinema-inspired ones to paintings and more theatrical versions.
The footage captures the joyous atmosphere Swift creates on set, empowering crew to do well and celebrating them when they do. Even when she wants to do another take, she calls the previous take perfect but just says she feels she has even more to give.
Viewers also get to see Swift rehearse the very same dance moves in shorts and T-shirts. She has just as much stage presence out of costume with her movement and body language alone.
The rest of the film makes Life of a Showgirl a listening party for fans attending in theaters nationwide. The 11 other tracks play as lyric videos, with Swift discussing each one.
VH-1 Storytellers popularized the idea of artists discussing their songs and it remains meaningful with Swift’s own twists.
