{"id":580019,"date":"2026-02-18T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:39:21","slug":"savannah-bananas-jackson-olson-nails-taylor-swift-opalite-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580019\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Bananas’ Jackson Olson Nails Taylor Swift ‘Opalite’ Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEveryone\u2019s doing it, so why not Jackson Olson? The popular infielder for the viral Savannah Bananas baseball team is beloved for his fun, silly TikTok videos and now he\u2019s hopping on a trend that is tailor-made for his antics. In a TikTok posted over the weekend, Olson and Party Animals rival Dalton Ponce got their wiggles out by joining in on the Taylor Swift<\/a>-spawned \u201cOpalite\u201d dance challenge.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the 30-second clip<\/a>, Olson and Ponce nail the choreo from Swift\u2019s throwback video for the pop charmer from her The Life of a Showgirl album, perfectly re-creating the jazzy dance moves seen in the song\u2019s official video<\/a>, which Swift wrote and directed, and co-stars in with The Paper actor Domhnall Gleeson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ballers open by doing a side-to-side bend, with Olson smiling as he looks over his shoulder at Ponce and the two men then jumping to face each other and high five as Swift sings about \u201cdancing through the lightning strikes.\u201d They grab hands and push and pull their arms on the field before a smash cut takes them to a ballroom, where they skip forward while holding hands, with Olson making a big show of jumping down off a single step.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis will be shown in history classes in 30 years,\u201d reads the caption to the video.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two men continue with their energetic routine as the camera cuts to some fellow Bananas and Animals teammates who don\u2019t seem to be feeling it. As the pair point and dance around each other under a disco ball the scores come in from the judges and, just as in the Swift original, they are\u2026 not good. All zeroes, including from Bananas head coach\/manager Tyler Gillum.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, Swift has released three versions of the video, starting with the original and then, last week, two extended cuts<\/a> with previously unseen footage and behind-the-scenes Easter eggs. Since then, the fizzy dance challenge has exploded on TikTok, with tons of fans re-creating the clip\u2019s silly dance moves in their kitchens<\/a>, parking garages<\/a>, living rooms<\/a>, Times Square<\/a> and hospital corridors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the release of the star-studded \u201cOpalite\u201d video, Swift landed in the No. 1 spot<\/a> on the U.K. Singles Chart dated Feb. 13, giving the singer her sixth U.K. career chart-topper.<\/p>\n


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