Charlotte Lawrence Discusses Sharing 'Ophelia' Song Name With Taylor Swift

Charlotte Lawrence and Taylor Swift both have songs with “Ophelia” in the title — but there’s no bad blood between the singer-songwriters.

“I’m never gonna claim that Taylor Swift has even heard or knows that I have a song called ‘Ophelia,’ of course, but it was exciting to see that when her tracklist [for The Life of a Showgirl] got released, she had a song called ‘The Fate of Ophelia,’” Lawrence, 25, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting Sam Edelman’s new fragrance, Duet Eau de Parfum, on Wednesday, September 3. “I remember my first instinct being like, ‘Girl, let me open up for you! It’ll be like ‘Ophelia,’ and then you’ll hear about ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ like they’re sisters!’”

Lawrence released her debut album, Somewhere, on June 27, including track No. 13 — yes, Swifties, we see it — “Ophelia.”

In the song — which was cowritten with Gracie Abrams — Lawrence sings, “Now that we’re talking, don’t know what to say / You took the apology out of my mouth / Even in dreams, you still keep me awake / I’ll try to write you that lullaby now.”

Meanwhile, Swift, 35, announced her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on August 13. Her first track on the album is “The Fate of Ophelia.”

“Taylor Swift is such a powerhouse,” Lawrence said of the Grammy winner. “She writes songs faster than anybody I’ve ever seen write a song … She is so prolific and poetic in so many ways. I doubt that there’s even any similarity in thought because it’s two totally, completely different perspectives. But I’m excited to hear her interpretation of her Ophelia story.”

The namesake of both of their songs dates back to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the character Ophelia drowns after entering into a state of madness.

“It’s very [a] very tragic, beautiful, love, deathly sad story of a young woman getting let down in a million and a half ways, and I just felt a lot of connections between the story that I was writing about of my personal life and the story of Shakespeare that I grew up knowing so well,” Lawrence told Us. “I immediately felt a million mirrors between what was happening in my life that I was writing about [and] what the story of Ophelia represented for me.”

Lawrence had another song connection in Somewhere’s “Ballerina” when Sam Edelman reached out about teaming up on the new fragrance campaign.

“The perfume is called Duet — you know, little music lingo — and the bottle is a ballet slipper, and when I got the call, had just finished a song that I wrote called ‘Ballerina’ that came out last June on my album, and I have a tattoo of a ballerina,” she said. “It felt really special and kismet and meant to be, and they ended up using my song in the campaign, and you can see the tattoo.”

She added: “I really, truly love the perfume and wear it all the time.”