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Home » Taylor Swift released a star-studded music video for ‘Opalite.’ Here are the details and Easter eggs you may have missed.
Taylor Swift released a star-studded music video for ‘Opalite.’ Here are the details and Easter eggs you may have missed.
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Taylor Swift released a star-studded music video for ‘Opalite.’ Here are the details and Easter eggs you may have missed.

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  • Taylor Swift released the music video for her latest single, “Opalite,” on Friday.
  • The video costars Domhnall Gleeson and features cameos from Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, and others.
  • Some Easter eggs reference other songs in Swift’s discography, like “Father Figure” and “Bejeweled.”

Taylor Swift surprised her devotees this week by announcing a music video for “Opalite,” the fan-favorite third track from her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

The twinkling pop song is being promoted as the second single from “Showgirl,” following “The Fate of Ophelia,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the chart for 10 weeks.

The “Opalite” music video, released on Friday, costars Domhnall Gleeson (“Ex Machina,” “Star Wars”), who publicly proclaimed “I’m hoping to get in a Taylor Swift music video” during their joint appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” last October.

Swift wrote on social media that the throwaway comment gave her an idea, and she wrote a script for the “Opalite” video the very next week. She cast Gleeson in the starring role as “Lonely Man” opposite herself as “Lonely Woman.”

In fact, Swift recruited the entire guest list from their episode to make cameos: Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lewis Capaldi, and Norton himself. She compared the pitch to “a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory.”

“To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the ’90s with us and help with this video,” Swift said. “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.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Swiftian music video without references and Easter eggs to find and decipher. Keep reading to see all the details you may have missed.

Opalite is marketed as a chemical substance to transform “your problems into your paradise.”

The music video begins with a ’90s-style TV advertisement for a product called Opalite, marketed as a “state-of-the-art chemical potion” to cure disappointment and frustration in relationships. The label on the spray bottle reads, “Magical results!”

This echoes the inspiration for the song itself. Swift previously said she wrote “Opalite” to capture the idea that love and joy don’t always come naturally — they must be actively sought or created.

“I had written down the word ‘opalite’ because I learned that it’s actually a man-made opal,” Swift told Capital FM. “I thought it was kind of a cool metaphor that it’s a man-made opal, and happiness can also be man-made.”

Also notable: Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, was born in October, meaning his birthstone is an opal.

The bedroom scene is reminiscent of “You Belong With Me.”

In “Opalite,” Swift’s character is best friends with a rock. Although she smears it with glitter and brings it everywhere she goes, it doesn’t return her affection… because it’s a rock.

The brief scene of Swift sitting cross-legged in her bedroom, draping her rock in a friendship bracelet, could be a reference to her teenage-era hit “You Belong With Me.”

The 2009 music video features a similar visual: Swift sitting in her bedroom, privately grappling with unrequited love.

The rock sits next to a George Michael CD.

The cover art for George Michael’s debut solo album, “Faith,” can be seen sitting on Swift’s bed. The album was released in 1987, the year after Wham! disbanded.

Swift’s song “Father Figure,” the fourth track on “Showgirl,” interpolates Michael’s hit of the same name, the fourth single from “Faith.” Michael is also credited as a cowriter on Swift’s version.

“I always thought it could be cool to use the line ‘I’ll be your father figure’ as a creative writing prompt, and turn it into a story about power, and a story about a young ingenue and their mentor, and the way that that relationship can change over time, and betrayal, and wit, and cunning, and cleverness, and strategy,” Swift said.

There are two more nods to George Michael in Swift’s bedroom.

The music video features a poster of Michael on Swift’s bedroom wall, and what looks like a “Faith” vinyl tucked away on the floor. This one features the cover art used for the album’s titular single.

The karaoke scene includes a visual reference to “Ruin the Friendship.”

In “Opalite,” Swift takes her rock to a karaoke bar, where she sings a few bars from the pre-chorus: “All of the foes, and all of the friends / Have seen it before, they’ll see it again.”

In this scene, Swift is flanked by two rotating disco balls with multicolored LED lights.

In “Ruin the Friendship,” the sixth track on “Showgirl,” Swift sings that a “disco ball makes everything look cheap.”

Several dancers from Swift’s Eras Tour make cameos in the video.

Raphael Thomas and Kevin Scheitzbach are among the familiar faces from Swift’s Eras Tour who appear in the “Opalite” music video as a bartender and a box office attendant, respectively.

Swift previously reunited her Eras Tour crew to costar in the “Ophelia” music video, including her dancers, bandmates, and backup singers.

Swift saves a seat at the bar for her rock, bringing to life a lyric from “Lover.”

In “Lover,” the title track from Swift’s 2019 album, she sings, “At every table, I’ll save you a seat.”

Swift keeps her promise in the “Opalite” music video — but since her muse is represented by an inanimate, unfeeling object, it now seems more tragic than romantic.

Gleeson’s clock reads 12:12, a nod to “Showgirl.”

“The Life of a Showgirl” is Swift’s 12th studio album.

Swift’s lucky number also makes an appearance.

In a scene where Gleeson plays pool with his cactus girlfriend, the number 13 pool ball is conspicuously turned to face the camera.

Swift’s handmade fortune teller features references to her song lyrics.

Swift’s paper fortune teller, sometimes known as a “cootie catcher,” has the names of certain gemstones written on the folds.

The words “Onyx” and “Opalite” are included as a reference to the song’s chorus (“Sleepless in the onyx night / Now the sky is opalite”).

“Sapphire” and “Moonstone” are also featured, most likely as a nod to the 2022 hit single “Bewjeweled” from Swift’s album “Midnights” (“Sapphire tears on my face / Sadness became my whole sky / But some guy said my aura’s moonstone / Just ’cause he was high”).

The mall stores are also named using Swift’s lyrics.

Visible store names include “Sweeter Than A Peach,” “Dear Protege,” and “Infamy Loves Co.,” which are lyrics from “The Life of a Showgirl,” “Father Figure,” and “Cancelled!” respectively.

After Swift ditches her rock, it wears a “Mad Woman” bracelet.

Gleeson and Swift are accosted by their abandoned objects during a trip to the mall. Swift’s rock has ditched the friendship bracelet she made, opting for a new one that reads, “F**k U 4ever.”

In “Mad Woman,” the 12th track from Swift’s album “Folklore,” she sings, “What do you sing on your drive home? / Do you see my face in your neighbor’s lawn? / Does she smile? Or does she mouth, ‘Fuck you forever?'”

Swift and Gleeson get zeros across the board for their dance routine.

For the song’s final chorus, Swift and Gleeson perform a choreographed dance routine in sparkly teal sweatsuits. All three judges of the competition (one of whom is Eras Tour dancer Kameron Saunders) give the couple a score of 0. Swift and Gleeson don’t notice or don’t care.

Swift has often been criticized as an awkward dancer, and she has satirized that reputation in previous music videos, including “Shake It Off” and “Delicate.”

“It takes a long time to figure out who you are and where you fit in in the world. I’m putting myself in all these awkward situations where the dancers are incredible, and I’m having fun with it, but not fitting in,” Swift said of the “Shake It Off” music video in 2014.

“They’re doing the most beautiful things, and I’m being embarrassingly bad at it. It shows you to keep doing you, keep being you, keep trying to figure out where you fit in in the world, and eventually you will,” she added. “Life can be greatly reflected in your willingness to dance.”

Swift’s Eras Tour choreographer, Mandy Moore, has also acknowledged that Swift gets a “bad rap” for her dancing.

“I really admire Taylor’s tenacity,” Moore told The New York Times. “Dance is so vulnerable, and that feeling is only magnified by how famous the person is.”



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