Taylor Swift releases ‘Opalite’ music video, packed with cameos from Domhnall Gleeson, Graham Norton, Lewis Capaldi and more

Taylor Swift is dancing through the lightning strikes. The music video for her song “Opalite” from The Life of a Showgirl was released today, on Feb. 6.

While Swift’s videos typically first appear on YouTube, the Eras Tour artist premiered this video exclusively on Spotify Premium and Apple Music. It won’t appear on YouTube until Sunday.

While the song itself is a shimmering, shiny ode to the pop icon’s husband-to-be, Travis Kelce, the video begins with Swift portraying a lonely ‘90s woman who befriends a pet rock and goes to karaoke bars with it. At home, she does jazzercise and watches infomercials, including one for a magical bottle spray called “Opalite.” She orders it, and with one spritz, she is matched with a similarly lonely man, played by Domhnall Gleeson, whose best friend is a mini cactus.

Their romance takes off, with Swift and Gleeson abandoning their nonsentient companions for mall outings replete with soft pretzels and cheesy photoshoots. Then they don matching baby blue tracksuits and compete in a dance competition. (The judges, though, award them zeroes.)

The mini rom-com concludes with a screen showing the rock and the cactus “married in a small, intimate ceremony” after meeting through Opalite.

The video features cameos from Jodie Turner-Smith, who plays an aerobics instructor; Greta Lee, who plays a singer; Lewis Capaldi, who plays a mall photographer; and Graham Norton, who plays an Opalite salesman.

In a post on X, Swift explained that she came up with the idea during an appearance on the Graham Norton Show with Gleeson, Capaldi, Lee, Turner-Smith and Cillian Murphy.

This is only the second music video released for Swift’s latest album, which dropped on Oct. 3, 2025. She premiered her music video for the single “The Fate of Ophelia” that week at a theatrical event called The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.

“Opalite” is a special song for Swift — and her fiancé. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end announced it was his favorite song on the album in an August 2025 episode of his podcast, New Heights, which he shares with his brother, Jason Kelce.

In an interview with Capital during the release week of The Life of a Showgirl in October, Swift confirmed that the song is still Kelce’s favorite and discussed what inspired it. “I have, like, favorite words, favorite phrases, things that I’ll put in an endless file of lyrics that I’m constantly gonna let go and cherry-pick from when I’m writing,” she said. “And I had written down the word ‘opalite’ because I learned that it’s actually a man-made opal, like opal can be man-made, just like diamonds.

“Travis’s birthstone is an opal, so I’ve always fixated on that. I thought it was a cool metaphor. Happiness can also be man-made, too,” she continued. “That’s kind of what the song is about, that juxtaposition.”

Kelce proposed to Swift in August 2025, sharing the news on her Instagram. Alongside a photo of them both in a flower-filled garden, she wrote: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”