- 2026-02-09
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MUSIC
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Taylor Swift Drops New Music Video for “Opalite” featuring Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi, Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith & Graham Norton
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift dropped a new music video for “Opalite” on February 8, 2026.
The video premiered on Apple Music and Spotify exclusively on February 6, 2026, then the video was released on YouTube on Monday.
Directed by Taylor Swift herself, featuring Graham Norton, Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi, Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Back in October 2025, Taylor Swift appeared on BBC The Graham Norton Show alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi and Jodie Turner-Smith.
After that, she called up everyone she appeared on the show with and invited them to appear in her music video.
The song is featured on her twelfth studio album “The Life of a Showgirl”, which was released last October.
It was written and produced by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback.- Taylor Swift said of the video, “My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. 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, The Graham Norton Show. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s 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’s a dinner party. They even serve wine.”
She continued, “Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Lewis Capaldi. All people whose work I’ve 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’s 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’d 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’t mandatory.”
She aded, “To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film.” -
She said of the song, “‘Opalite’ is a song on my album that I think is just so infectiously contagiously happy and really a expression of how the song is itself about choosing happiness and getting through rough times, you know adversity, and really choosing your own joy and sort of path to joy and it didn’t just happen accidentally for you. ‘Opalite’ is actually a man-made opal and I kinda took that metaphor of a man-made gemstone and applied it to, well, you know, what if you make your own happiness and like, I really love that sort of comparison between the two and that analogy and it turned into one of the fairer songs on the album.” - source : Apple Music
