The Tamesis
Sound the alarm: Taylor Swift just released a new music video for “Opalite,” a song from showgirl lifeand this is far from the exquisite acting skills of “Ophelia’s Fate”. Watch it now to see all the questions I had when I first watched it.
- What kind of advertisement is this? Am I looking at the right thing?
- Why is this content only available on Spotify and Apple Music but not on YouTube? (Oh, this is to increase traffic, isn’t it?)
- Is Opalite spray on? showgirl lifeAlbum colors, orange and oxidized green? Classic.
- Is this living room somehow Taylor coded?
- Taylor wearing a scrunchie? Never thought I would see this day.
- And she has black hair? !
- Should this be shot like a Wes Anderson movie?
- Is there something very cozy and ’00s about it all?
- Friendship bracelet? ! ! !
- Is that a George Michael poster hanging on her bedroom wall?
- Is this a nod to a “father figure”? showgirl life? Of course it is.
- I wonder what Taylor sings when she sings karaoke? Does she still sing karaoke?
- Greta Lee on MTV?
- Is the bartender Eras Tour dancer Raphael Thomas?
- Eras Tour dancer Natalie Reid plays the girl sitting next to Taylor?
- Did Taylor order Cosmos? (again: certainly.)
- Is Taylor Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda or Samantha?
- Jodie Turner-Smith as fitness trainer?
- Domhnall Gleeson as Taylor’s significant other? !
- Isn’t the person at the ticket counter Eras Tour dancer Kevin Scheitzbach?
- Is this the most British Christmas decoration ever?
- Now they are together! ? ? ?
- Is Lewis Capaldi a photographer?
- Is this Star Court Plaza? stranger things?
- Is this the weirdest music video Taylor has ever made?
- I guess nothing says love better than with pretzels?
- And Graham Norton! ? Oh, that’s everyone on Taylor and Graham Norton’s couch, right?
- Are those Eras Tour dancers Sam McWilliams and Whyley Yoshimura talking to Graham?
- What about Cillian Murphy in the ad?
- This shimmering dance tune is unexpected?
- Is this really a town hall dance competition?
- Who else but Eras Tour dancer Kameron Saunders to judge that?
- What’s this weird end credits line about where are the rocks and cacti now?
- Is this Domhnall Gleeson’s best free publicity? newspaper?
- What project are Jodie and Greta promoting?
- Oh wow, Cillian did the voiceover for the Opalite commercial too? I guess that’s what you do when you win an Oscar.
- How long after this episode did Taylor contact them all to do this? A mastermind indeed.
- Does this prove that Taylor is still and always will be an Anglophile?
