Taylor Swift Premieres New Music Video for “Patient Zero”: Watch

Taylor Swift premiered the music video for “Patient Zero” from her newly released deluxe edition of The Life of a Showgirl during the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. Watch the full clip below. Directed by Swift, the “Patient Zero” video stars Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson, with cinematography by Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant, Gravity). Buy Taylor Swift Vinyl at Consequence Shop The visual begins with Johnson holding a black rose in a snowy cemetery, side by side with Swift. Johnson and Farrell act out the doomed romance chronicled in Swift’s lyrics throughout the video, with the musician serving as an angel on Johnson’s shoulder. In the second half, Swift switches places with Johnson, who then appears to put the rose on her grave. “The Patient Zero video is finally out in the world! Getting to work with Emmanuel Lubezki was something out of a dream sequence, and I learned so much from getting to watch his genius in action,” Swift wrote about the video in a social media statement. “I want to thank Dakota and Colin for trusting me with their time, taste, and talent (Giggling with your friend because you’re twinning for an entire shoot was a new and truly delightful expe...