{"id":283518,"date":"2026-02-14T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:58:09","slug":"taylor-swift-shouts-out-travis-kelce-for-opalite-house-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283518\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Shouts Out Travis Kelce for &#8216;Opalite&#8217; House Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelce inspired Chris Lake\u2019s new EDM version of the track<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> is releasing a house remix of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-opalite-music-video-1235511440\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-opalite-music-video-1235511440\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOpalite\u201d<\/a> \u2014 and the world can thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/travis-kelce\/\" id=\"auto-tag_travis-kelce\" data-tag=\"travis-kelce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce<\/a> for that. In an Instagram story, the pop superstar wrote, \u201cConfirmed, Travis is my in-house house guy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo what role did her fianc\u00e9 actually play in making one of the newly announced remixes of the song come to life? Well, Kelce is a big fan of English EDM producer Chris Lake and inspired him to give the glittery pop song an electronic treatment. As Lake revealed in an Instagram <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUtFUWGFLjw\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUtFUWGFLjw\/\">post<\/a>, the producer slid into the NFL player\u2019s DMs and told him, \u201cHeard you and Taylor were listening to my tracks\u2026 I\u2019m going to take a crack at remixing this track for her.\u201d Kelce was as supportive as you\u2019d expect a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/GFRijzbLSMI\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/GFRijzbLSMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">human exclamation mark <\/a>to be, calling Lake a \u201clegend\u201d and saying, \u201cCan\u2019t wait to see how you put it together man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOnce Lake cooked up his yet-to-be released remix, Kelce was more hyped than ever in the DMs. \u201cIt\u2019s so good dawg, I\u2019m gonna be rippin this shit every car ride!!\u201d he said. He also made sure to let the producer know Swift approved of the \u201cOpalite\u201d remix. \u201cShe loves it too!! She said her teams gonna reach out asap!\u201d Kelce wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOpalite\u201d is the song that keeps on giving. Even before it was released, in the\u00a0New Heights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-new-heights-podcast-watch-listen-1235407026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">episode<\/a>\u00a0where Swift announced her The Life of a Showgirl, Travis admitted that the track was his favorite one off of the album. In an appearance on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldUsKs7FAfo&amp;t=440s\">Capital FM<\/a>\u00a0in October, Swift affirmed the track continued to be his favorite off the album. \u201cHe loves that one,\u201d she said. Now, it seems Kelce loves it even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA CD-version of the track is available to pre-order on Swift\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/store.taylorswift.com\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnGgeqAw7WOlqAjCF_45-3FeqS_lM0UX1BNj0TUxQxqcrgfwVHd73ZRDRbLdI_aem_HSC_4a3R8cQP9ypjnkF5VA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.taylorswift.com\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnGgeqAw7WOlqAjCF_45-3FeqS_lM0UX1BNj0TUxQxqcrgfwVHd73ZRDRbLdI_aem_HSC_4a3R8cQP9ypjnkF5VA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>, but the world will have to wait to hear just what compelled Travis to react with six fire emojis. In the meantime, fans can get their Taylor fix by watching the <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-opalite-video-extended-versions-1235515810\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-opalite-video-extended-versions-1235515810\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended versions<\/a> of the \u201cOpalite\u201d music video, which the singer dropped on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelce inspired Chris Lake\u2019s new EDM version of the track Taylor Swift is releasing a house remix of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,6456,11214],"class_list":{"0":"post-283518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-taylor-swift","14":"tag-travis-kelce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}