Taylor Swift's 'Opalite' Filled With 'Norton' Guests

I'm hoping to get in a Taylor Swift music video. I'm hoping. There you go. Do you? Are you? Don't you sweat it, baby. It's on. Oh my lord. That is the face of Taylor Swift getting the spark of an idea. She writes on Instagram today, 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 Opelike 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. Is next year the wedding year? Is that when it's happening? Oh, you'll know. For those of you who aren't familiar, it's a UK late night show where Graham Norton, an insanely charismatic and lovable host, invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc. to be on a show, and we all sit there and chat like it's a dinner party. We even serve wine. Anyway, I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with, Céline Murphy, Donald 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, Donald 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. I'm hoping to get in the Taylor Swift music video. I'm hoping. There you go. Yeah. And so a week later, he received an email script I'd written for the Opelike music video where he was playing a 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 part of it too. So you're going big. I just mean that I was going to invite you to it. Like a school group project, but for adults, and it isn't mandatory, to my delight, everyone from the show made an effort to time travel back to the 90s with us and help with this video. And the Opelike music video dropped today at 8am, four months after that Graham Norton Show episode aired. Never met no one like you before. Donald gets a starring role as Lonely Man, and there's Greta, Jodie, Lewis, Graham. Now Killian isn't actually in the music video, other than his likeness being painted into a mural. Taylor writes, 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, the Opelike music video is now out on Spotify and Apple Music. Yeah, you won't find it on YouTube right now because, as of a few weeks ago, YouTube is no longer supplying their data to Billboard because, um, yeah, it's kind of in protest that, um, yeah, they think the formula that Billboard calculates, you know, the chart positions is outdated. So yeah, they're not supplying the numbers anymore. I don't really see how this is really going to benefit YouTube. Um, yeah, because artists aren't going to put their music on YouTube anymore if it doesn't count towards the charts. As a case in point, yeah, Taylor Swift is not releasing a new music video on YouTube. She's released it on Spotify and Apple Music, two, uh, platforms that count towards the Billboard charts. So, yeah, I'm assuming there's going to be some kind of agreement worked out between Billboard and YouTube rather soon, uh, because, yeah, I don't see how this is beneficial to either one of them. But yeah, for now, yeah, YouTube's not counting, so Taylor Swift's not putting her music video on, uh, YouTube. Yeah, so, if you're watching Spotify and Apple Music, yeah, what do you think of the music video? Super fun. I'm glad she went with this for single number two. I was worried that she might go with Wishlist for single number two after all those UK radio hosts told her that was, uh, their favorite track on the album. But then once the album came out, Opalight became a, yeah, clear favorite. On Spotify, after Life of Ophelia, it's the second most streamed track from The Life of a Showgirl. Great song. Subtle video. It's a little weird. Um, I don't really get how Donald and Taylor's characters come together. Like, all of a sudden, they're just in the same room together, which is kind of weird. You know, fun video. I love the choice of single. What do you think?