{"id":159191,"date":"2026-02-14T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=159191"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:41:59","slug":"taylor-swift-shares-how-the-opalite-music-video-became-a-playful-group-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taylor-swift-shares-how-the-opalite-music-video-became-a-playful-group-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift shares how the \u201cOpalite\u201d music video became a playful group project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Taylor Swift posts new photos from the \u201cOpalite\u201d video shoot<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> shared a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of her latest music video, \u201c<strong>Opalite<\/strong>,\u201d on February 13, 2026. The post came one week after the official video premiered on February 7, 2026, through Spotify and Apple Music. <em>\u201cI never want to forget a single detail of this hysterical shoot, and now I don\u2019t have to!\u201d<\/em> Taylor revealed on social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\/status\/2022176750516552097?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I never want to forget a single detail of this hysterical shoot, and now I don\u2019t have to! Excited to share more of the Opalite Music Video with two extended versions full of dance lessoning, our phenomenal cameos, camcorder footage, gigantic scrunchies &amp; fanny pack angles! Parts\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t7ZK6FAKRr\">pic.twitter.com\/t7ZK6FAKRr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\/status\/2022176750516552097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The singer revealed that she wanted to remember every detail of the shoot and announced two extended versions of the video, which feature dance rehearsals, cameo moments, and personal camcorder footage. In the pictures, Taylor and her co-stars can be spotted reviewing scenes on a tablet with the cinematographer. Other photos show the cast wearing matching sequin tracksuits while preparing a choreographed dance sequence and filming scenes inside a shopping mall.<\/p>\n<h2>The production uses a real mall and a playful commercial concept<\/h2>\n<p>The mall featured in the video is a real location in Croydon, England, that was redesigned to look like a nostalgic mall from the 1990s. One of the main scenes includes a fictional commercial for an \u201cOpalite\u201d spray that promises to fix people\u2019s problems. In addition, the video includes a parody product called \u201cNope Alite,\u201d which appears during a store scene. Taylor Swift herself was personally involved in designing small props used in the video and reviewing footage during filming.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1FVF-9KQiPo\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Opalite (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1FVF-9KQiPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>It all began during a television appearance in 2025<\/h2>\n<p>The \u201cBlank Space\u201d singer revealed that the idea for the video came to her during her appearance on<strong> The Graham Norton Show<\/strong> in October 2025, the same month her album \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d was released. During the program, Domhnall Gleeson joked about wanting to appear in one of her music videos. Interestingly, the joke made Taylor imagine a group project with the rest of the guests, Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, JodieSmith, and Lewis Capaldi, which would later turn into the \u201cOpalite\u201d music video.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;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*.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift posts new photos from the \u201cOpalite\u201d video shoot Taylor Swift shared a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of her latest music video, \u201cOpalite,\u201d on February 13, 2026. The post came one week after the official video premiered on February 7, 2026, through Spotify and Apple Music. \u201cI never want to forget a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":159192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,4],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-159191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-pop","tag-taylor-swift"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}