Taylor Swift’s ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video Joins YouTube’s Billion Views Club

These memories still follow us around. The video for Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” — off of her fifth full-length, 1989 — has has passed one billion views on YouTube, her sixth to accomplish that feat. (The others? “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off,” “You Belong With Me,” “Bad Blood” and “Look What You Made Me Do.”)

Directed by Joseph Kahn — who also helmed the superstar’s visuals for “Blank Space,” “Bad Blood,” “Look What You Made Me Do,” “… Ready for It?” “End Game” and “Delicate” — dropped in August of 2015 in support of 1989’s fifth single.

The video stars Swift and Scott Eastwood as old-school Hollywood actors on the set of a 1950s movie in Africa, and whose short-lived love affair wreaks havoc during filming and at the film’s premiere. During the end credits of the gorgeously shot romantic tale, the title cards revealed that “all of Taylor’s proceeds from this video will be donated to wild animal conservation efforts through the African Parks Foundation of America.”

Eastwood recently admitted he was unaware of Swift when he got the call for the role. “I’d never met Taylor Swift before,” he said during the press tour for his 2025 movie Regretting You. “She called me out of the blue. She said, ‘Hey this is Taylor.’ I’m, like, ‘Taylor who?’”

In a 2016 interview, the actor revealed he also almost didn’t end up in the video. “None of my agents wanted me to do it, actually,” Eastwood said. “They said, ‘Oh, we don’t want you to do that! Why would you be Taylor Swift’s boy toy?’ and I said, ‘Why the hell not?’”

Watch the video for “Wildest Dreams” below: