Taylor Swift released a star-studded music video for 'Opalite.' Here are the details and Easter eggs you may have missed.

By Callie Ahlgrim

The music video begins with a '90s-style TV advertisement for a product called Opalite, marketed as a "state-of-the-art chemical potion" to cure disappointment and frustration in relationships. The label on the spray bottle reads, "Magical results!"

This echoes the inspiration for the song itself. Swift previously said she wrote "Opalite" to capture the idea that love and joy don't always come naturally — they must be actively sought or created.

"I had written down the word 'opalite' because I learned that it's actually a man-made opal," Swift told Capital FM. "I thought it was kind of a cool metaphor that it's a man-made opal, and happiness can also be man-made."

Also notable: Swift's fiancé, Travis Kelce, was born in October, meaning his birthstone is an opal.

In "Opalite," Swift's character is best friends with a rock. Although she smears it with glitter and brings it everywhere she goes, it doesn't return her affection… because it's a rock.

The brief scene of Swift sitting cross-legged in her bedroom, draping her rock in a friendship bracelet, could be a reference to her teenage-era hit "You Belong With Me."

The 2009 music video features a similar visual: Swift sitting in her bedroom, privately grappling with unrequited love.

The cover art for George Michael's debut solo album, "Faith," can be seen sitting on Swift's bed. The album was released in 1987, the year after Wham! disbanded.

Swift's song "Father Figure," the fourth track on "Showgirl," interpolates Michael's hit of the same name, the fourth single from "Faith." Michael is also credited as a cowriter on Swift's version.

"I always thought it could be cool to use the line 'I'll be your father figure' as a creative writing prompt, and turn it into a story about power, and a story about a young ingenue and their mentor, and the way that that relationship can change over time, and betrayal, and wit, and cunning, and cleverness, and strategy," Swift said.

In "Opalite," Swift takes her rock to a karaoke bar, where she sings a few bars from the pre-chorus: "All of the foes, and all of the friends / Have seen it before, they'll see it again."

In this scene, Swift is flanked by two rotating disco balls with multicolored LED lights.

In "Ruin the Friendship," the sixth track on "Showgirl," Swift sings that a "disco ball makes everything look cheap."

Raphael Thomas and Kevin Scheitzbach are among the familiar faces from Swift's Eras Tour who appear in the "Opalite" music video as a bartender and a box office attendant, respectively.

Swift previously reunited her Eras Tour crew to costar in the "Ophelia" music video, including her dancers, bandmates, and backup singers.

In "Lover," the title track from Swift's 2019 album, she sings, "At every table, I'll save you a seat."

Swift keeps her promise in the "Opalite" music video — but since her muse is represented by an inanimate, unfeeling object, it now seems more tragic than romantic.

Swift's paper fortune teller, sometimes known as a "cootie catcher," has the names of certain gemstones written on the folds.

The words "Onyx" and "Opalite" are included as a reference to the song's chorus ("Sleepless in the onyx night / Now the sky is opalite").

"Sapphire" and "Moonstone" are also featured, most likely as a nod to the 2022 hit single "Bewjeweled" from Swift's album "Midnights" ("Sapphire tears on my face / Sadness became my whole sky / But some guy said my aura's moonstone / Just 'cause he was high").

Gleeson and Swift are accosted by their abandoned objects during a trip to the mall. Swift's rock has ditched the friendship bracelet she made, opting for a new one that reads, "F**k U 4ever."

In "Mad Woman," the 12th track from Swift's album "Folklore," she sings, "What do you sing on your drive home? / Do you see my face in your neighbor's lawn? / Does she smile? Or does she mouth, 'Fuck you forever?'"

For the song's final chorus, Swift and Gleeson perform a choreographed dance routine in sparkly teal sweatsuits. All three judges of the competition (one of whom is Eras Tour dancer Kameron Saunders) give the couple a score of 0. Swift and Gleeson don't notice or don't care.

Swift has often been criticized as an awkward dancer, and she has satirized that reputation in previous music videos, including "Shake It Off" and "Delicate."

"It takes a long time to figure out who you are and where you fit in in the world. I'm putting myself in all these awkward situations where the dancers are incredible, and I'm having fun with it, but not fitting in," Swift said of the "Shake It Off" music video in 2014.

"They're doing the most beautiful things, and I'm being embarrassingly bad at it. It shows you to keep doing you, keep being you, keep trying to figure out where you fit in in the world, and eventually you will," she added. "Life can be greatly reflected in your willingness to dance."

Swift's Eras Tour choreographer, Mandy Moore, has also acknowledged that Swift gets a "bad rap" for her dancing.

"I really admire Taylor's tenacity," Moore told The New York Times. "Dance is so vulnerable, and that feeling is only magnified by how famous the person is."