Monday, September 28, 2026

Taylor Swift Won’t Show You New Video for Free, Keeps it Off YouTube, Only Available on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes for a Fee

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Taylor Swift won’t show you her new video, Patient Zero, for free.

She’s not putting it on YouTube.

Instead, the video that dropped tonight is only available on Spotify, itunes, and Amazon Music. You need a subscription. Taylor must have paid Dakota, Colin Farrell, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki a fortune. Now she’s got to sort it out.

In the video, Madonna and Dakota Johnson visit a grave, more than the likely the burial site of all pop music.

(This is despite “patient zero” being a popular phrase during the AIDS crisis. But that was so long ago.)

Colin Farrell plays the guy who’s done Dakota/Taylor wrong. How many times was Taylor Swift scorned in real life? The body count is huge. Each of them has gotten at least one song. I think all of them should get together and a make a record about Taylor. Call it Swift Justice. Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Joe Alwyn, Harry Styles, whoever.

Taylor and Madonna split most of the big awards tonight at the MTV Video Music Awards. The show itself is a painful joke. Imagine that CBS has no Kennedy Center Awards this year, but they have this garbage. I thought they were going t say this is what the people who keep going into sewer found down there.

So here’s the Spotify preview of “Patient Zero.”

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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