“Taylor and Travis Kelce have been listening to my music loads together and have requested that I remix Opalite”: Chris Lake said yes to a Taylor Swift remix before he'd even heard the stems, then had to spend two weeks solid producing it in Ableton Live

MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 18: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE)) Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Hard Rock Stadium on October 18, 2024 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management).

At this point, if you get the call from Taylor Swift asking if you’d be willing to remix her new single, you’re pretty much obliged to say yes.

That was certainly the attitude of British producer and DJ Chris Lake, who admits that, when he was offered the chance to put his own stamp on Opalite, the latest track to be lifted from Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl album, he accepted “before I even got the stems.”