{"id":1767077,"date":"2026-02-06T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1767077"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:33:33","slug":"taylor-swift-finds-love-in-new-opalite-video-starring-domnhall-gleeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1767077","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Finds Love in New \u201cOpalite\u201d\u00a0Video Starring Domnhall Gleeson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Swift Finds Love in New \u201cOpalite\u201d\u00a0Video Starring Domnhall Gleeson<\/h1>\n
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Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Lewis Capaldi also cameo in the \u201990s-themed short<\/div>\n
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Taylor Swift has released a video for \u201cOpalite,\u201d the second song from The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> to get a visual treatment. Directed by Swift herself, the \u201990s-themed video\u2014which was shared exclusively on Apple Music and Spotify on February 6 before hitting YouTube on February 8\u2014finds Swift in a dead-end relationship with a literal rock, only to be saved by a spritz of a spray potion called \u201cOpalite\u201d and the arrival of charmer Domnhall Gleeson. The two of them embark on a romantic adventure that occasions cameos from Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Lewis Capaldi\u2014all of whom, a coda reveals, were Swift\u2019s fellow guests when she appeared on the UK late-night TV show of Graham Norton (who also appears in the video). Watch it go down below.<\/p>\n

Elaborating on the video on Instagram, Swift wrote, in part:<\/p>\n

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The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, @TheGrahamNortonShowOfficial. For those of you who aren\u2019t familiar, it\u2019s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it\u2019s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, @JodieSmith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I\u2019ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He\u2019s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I\u2019d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn\u2019t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90\u2019s with us and help with this video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A YouTube upload will follow on Sunday, according to a countdown posted yesterday on Swift\u2019s website (where Swift is selling an \u201cOpalite\u201d vinyl single for 48 hours). Swift\u2019s decision to withhold the video from YouTube follows the platform\u2019s recent decision to pull its stream counts from the Billboard<\/em> charts, in protest of how Billboard<\/em> weights ad-supported streams. Pitchfork has emailed YouTube for comment on this quirk of the \u201cOpalite\u201d rollout.<\/p>\n

The first Life of a Showgirl<\/em> video, for \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d was also written and directed by Swift herself and released, with the album, last October. Shortly afterwards, the album beat Adele\u2019s first-week sales record and Swift was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

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