{"id":638607,"date":"2026-09-28T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/638607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:10:13","slug":"colin-farrell-stars-as-toxic-partner-who-killed-taylor-swift-in-newly-released-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/638607\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell stars as toxic partner who &#8216;killed&#8217; Taylor Swift in newly released music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRISH ACTOR COLIN Farrell stars in the music video for Taylor Swift\u2019s new single, which premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Swift, who made history by becoming the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, directed the video for Patient Zero herself.<\/p>\n<p>The video features a star-studded cast, with actor Dakota Johnson and model Cara Delevingne also featuring.<\/p>\n<p>In the track, Swift warns a woman about her partner, with whom the singer had a toxic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s killing you \/ I got you \/ I was patient zero,\u201d she sings.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Taylor Swift\u2019s music video for \u2018Patient Zero\u2019 is now available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E8hzSf5da7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/E8hzSf5da7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PopBase\/status\/2104385166391037970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 28, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The video opens in a graveyard, and as it goes on, it becomes obvious Swift\u2019s character is appearing as a ghost after being killed by Farrell\u2019s character.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last line of the chorus \u201cBut if you\u2019re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero\u201d is repeated throughout the song.<\/p>\n<p>Patient Zero was released as part of the singer\u2019s drop of bonus-tracks from her last album The Life of a Showgirl last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790608213_339_.jpeg\"  alt=\"taylor-swift-accepts-the-award-for-video-of-the-year-for-the-fate-of-ophelia-during-the-mtv-video-music-awards-on-sunday-sept-27-2026-at-the-peacock-theater-in-los-angeles-ap-photochris-pizze\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Taylor Swift accepts the award for video of the year for The Fate of Ophelia during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.                     Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old\u00a0now has the most Moonman statuettes ever after winning the inaugural Artist Director Honors for her work behind the camera on visual storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>She also won Video of the Year, which she dedicated to country legend Dolly Parton, praising the recently deceased performer\u2019s music and saying \u201cevery single song she wrote, her storytelling was so vivid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe handled this fame with such grace and love and gratitude,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the award for Artist of the Year went to the queen of pop, Madonna.<\/p>\n<p>While accepting the prize, Madonna reminisced about how her manager scolded her backstage at the very first MTV awards show, where she briefly mooned the audience in a performance fumble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy manager said my career was over,\u201d she said, adding that he wasn\u2019t her manager any more.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old pop queen sang \u201cBring Your Love\u201d alongside Sabrina Carpenter before medleying with Charli XCX for \u201cDanceteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grunge band Nirvana received the Video Vanguard award, and Thai artist LISA, a member of girl group Blackpink, won the award for best pop for \u201cDream,\u201d featuring Kentaro Sakaguchi.<\/p>\n<p>Kacey Musgraves headlined a tribute to Dolly Parton, while Teddy Swims, Sombr and Raye offered a soulful tribute to George Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Rapper Snoop Dogg hosted the ceremony, which aired on CBS and MTV.<\/p>\n<p>With additional reporting from AFP.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRISH ACTOR COLIN Farrell stars in the music video for Taylor Swift\u2019s new single, which premiered at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14209,15427,93,61,60,6545,17396,6543,8549,271294],"class_list":["post-638607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-colin-farrell","tag-dakota-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-music-video","tag-taylor-swift","tag-video-music-awards","tag-vma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}