2016Released
2:40

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Interesting facts and trivia about Ophelia. By Songfacts®.

The first track written and recorded for Cleopatra, this was the "cornerstone" for the record. Band member Jeremiah Fraites told Wat Kyk JY: "Once we finished and completed 'Ophelia' I felt like it was easier to proceed finishing the album. 'Ophelia' was the cornerstone of this album. For whatever reasons, it was just easier to proceed and shed all the pressure of having to deliver a second album. It became fun again to write and that was a burst of joy to feel that again after touring for so long playing similar sets night after night. The idea of new music was ecstasy."

The song is named after the ingénue of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Oh, Ophelia You've been on my mind, girl, since the flood Oh, Ophelia Heaven help the fool who falls in love Ophelia was the naïve daughter of Polonius who fell in love with Hamlet. She is humiliated by him and when Hamlet kills her father she loses her reason. Soon after Ophelia drowns after a branch from a willow tree she climbs upon breaks.

The Isaac Ravishankara directed video pays homage to the classic Gene Kelly film Singin' In the Rain. The band's frontman, Wesley Schultz said: "For the music video Ophelia, our good friend Issac Ravishankara, who directed the 'Stubborn Love' music video from our first record, brought us a treatment that involved me dancing in the streets while it was raining so I had to learn choreography for the first time in my life. I learned how to dance for this music video."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Ophelia.
FKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
76BPM

Album

The album Ophelia is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Ophelia.
Decca (UMO)
© 2016 The Lumineers, under exclusive licence to Decca a division of Universal Music Operations Ltd.
℗ 2016 The Lumineers, under exclusive licence to Decca a division of Universal Music Operations Ltd.

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