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[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

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 Opalite 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, @TheGNShow. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it’s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. 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’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the 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 a part of it too. Like 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 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! 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 Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music.

https://t.co/ZOi4zNuyTD

[ATHEER 𝟏𝟑⸆⸉𝜗𝜚 @Ath28TS]

THIS IS CINEMA❤️‍🔥

[✩ CEL ✩ @moonlithoax]

🥨

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift now holds the biggest streaming day in Spotify history for an artist, an album, a song, and a music video.

[Lewis Capaldi @LewisCapaldi]

thank you for having me @taylorswift13 ❤️📸 x

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

Oh my Lord, never loved a music video like this before! #OpaliteMusicVideo out now on @YouTube! ✨ https://t.co/5GGWcTNrhE

[Alef @alefvernon]

The eras are together on stage for a final show... 🥹🫶✨️

[bethany ☁️ @corneliastagain]

this is CINEMA

[The Swift Society @TheSwiftSociety]

🎂| Happy 36th birthday to Taylor Swift! She is the most lovely, talented songwriter, artist, director, business woman, and musician.

Thank you for sharing your music with us for over 20 years!

[best of swift ❁ @besttofswift]

happy birthday to the legend, global superstar, grammy winner, the music industry, artist of the decade, the most talented singer-songwriter, cat lady & love of my life: TAYLOR SWIFT ♡

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 36th birthday to the iconic Taylor Swift.

The 14x Grammy-winning superstar, who debuted in 2006, has taken the world by storm era after era, and record after record. Her impact has ranged from her songwriting talents, which landed her a Songwriter Hall of Fame nomination in her first year of eligibility, to the phenomenon of the Eras Tour, which is the highest-grossing tour of all time. She is the first artist in history to hold the entire Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, which no other artist has done once. She was named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2023 and, this year, broke the record for biggest album opening in Billboard 200 history when her twelfth studio album opened at four million units. She also gained ownership to her first six albums and now fully owns her entire discography, which boasts four Album of the Year wins — the most for any singer ever.

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

There truly was magic in the *eras*✨ I can’t wait for you guys to see the first two episodes of The End of an Era and relive The Eras Tour | The Final Show TOMORROW on @DisneyPlus starting 12am PT / 3am ET

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Tonight all these lives converge here
The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears
Where fraternal souls sing identical things
And it’s beautiful
It’s rapturous.
It is frightening.
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I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.

If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain...

The Life of a Showgirl is out now.

https://t.co/VetltwlcoJ

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Being in the studio and creating these songs was an unforgettable experience, but luckily I don’t ever have to forget it because I was recording while we were writing - and now it’s a way to look back on the process and give you guys a glimpse into how we wrote these songs, and hear the moments we thought of these ideas in real time.

The Life of a Showgirl (DELUXE Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version) featuring “The Life of a Showgirl” (Original Songwriting Voice Memos) Act 1 & Act 2 are available now on iTunes for 24 hours.
https://t.co/4FjQyW2gE4