Taylor Swift - ‘Opalite’ music video

[huttont 5,937]

8 hours ago, darkgaga said:

A video with 0 relation to the song. Why?

A lot of Gaga’s music videos also have zero relation to the song. 

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40 minutes ago, huttont said:

A lot of Gaga’s music videos also have zero relation to the song. 

At least she sings and dances to the song. This video could be played under every song

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11 hours ago, LadyxGaGa said:

i kno it’s debuting on AM and spotify but is it coming to youtube at all??

On Sunday

[Flippy 14,012]

Such a good video tbh  I did love TFOO a lot more but this one was so cute regardless! 

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19 hours ago, LadyxGaGa said:

wait which one did blake direct i knew they were besties but i didn’t kno it was that serious 

I bet you think about me MV

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16 hours ago, huttont said:

A lot of Gaga’s music videos also have zero relation to the song. 

I mean, not true lol. Gaga’s vids usually just layer additional meaning onto the songs (just like she does in her live performances) 

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3 hours ago, IllusionLover said:

I bet you think about me MV

i did not like that video or song at all noah fence 

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19 hours ago, huttont said:

A lot of Gaga’s music videos also have zero relation to the song. 

which ones?

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18 hours ago, nATAH said:

which ones?

If we’re talking literally:

Alejandro

You and I 

Marry the night 

GUY

Stupid Love

My point is that music videos don’t always match up exactly to the music and lyrics. I just thought it was a trivial criticism. I found this MV much more interesting than at least 5 of Gaga’s videos 

 

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15 minutes ago, huttont said:

If we’re talking literally:

Alejandro

You and I 

Marry the night 

GUY

Stupid Love

out of all of these, the only one you are probably correct about is Y&I, the rest are pretty relevant to the songs lyrics and music

17 minutes ago, huttont said:

I found this MV much more interesting than at least 5 of Gaga’s videos 

this however... is insane

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I actually enjoyed this. Much Better than the last video which i hated. And the Graham show thing Is kinda Genius in a very literal way but powerful way as well. The Song Is Also not bad. 

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12 hours ago, huttont said:

If we’re talking literally:

Alejandro

You and I 

Marry the night 

GUY

Stupid Love

 I found this MV much more interesting than at least 5 of Gaga’s videos 

 

You are a Russian bot. This Taylor swift video better than marry the night work of art?

Edited February 9 by 50 Ft Queenie

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5 hours ago, 50 Ft Queenie said:

You are a Russian bot. This Taylor swift video better than marry the night work of art?

I didn’t say that. I said MTN video doesn’t have much to do with the actual song in a literal sense. My point is that music videos can be whatever the artist wants them to be. 

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Her usual brand of cringe, nothing new to see here. The goofiness is giving Katy Perry, it's kinda embarassing to see her still using this same schtick at 36 (and with a 42 year old co-star). It's like since 1989, she never grew out of this visual style. 

On 2/5/2026 at 12:20 AM, LGAte said:

I think this song dog whistles pro-whiteness. 

and I think people who say that’s a bad take….should consider how smart Taylor is…and how weird it is to write a song about this in that way.
 

Let’s be very clear. because I know people will come for me….but even if “Opalite” wasn’t written with intentional racism, it is still deeply ignorant, and that matters even more when you are someone with the power, wealth, platform, and self-proclaimed “mastermind” status of Taylor Swift. Context matters. This is a song about a man whose dating history was primarily women of color. Then he dates Taylor. Suddenly his life becomes “opalite,” a white, translucent, glowing gemstone associated with purity and light. That framing is not neutral. The narrative becomes: he dates Black and brown women, then he dates Taylor, and now his world is luminous, rare, elevated, purified. You do not get to write that and pretend it exists in a vacuum.

This is classic aestheticized whiteness. Not overt racism. Not slurs. But symbolic hierarchy. Whiteness as restoration. Whiteness as upgrade. Whiteness as glow. And before anyone says “she didn’t mean it like that,” here’s the thing: Taylor wants credit as a high-brow lyricist. She markets herself as hyper-intentional. She dissects metaphors. She plants easter eggs. She controls narrative. She literally calls herself a mastermind. A real high-brow lyricist thinks about cultural context. A real high-brow lyricist asks how this reads in the real world, what it implies, and what it reinforces, especially when you are a white billionaire writing about a man’s romantic past with women of color.

She could have chosen literally any metaphor. She chose a white gemstone. That is not accidental in outcome, even if it was accidental in intent. And intent does not erase impact. What makes this worse is the privilege baked into it. Taylor lives in a bubble where she gets to romanticize her own desirability without ever having to sit with how that story lands for Black women. The song centers her elevation while implicitly downgrading the women who came before. That is textbook white feminism.

It is also why people are right to side-eye who she’s aligning herself with this era. When your art starts leaning into purity imagery, hierarchy narratives, and romanticized superiority, people are allowed to ask questions. Especially in a political climate where MAGA aesthetics thrive on coded language rather than explicit statements. Dog whistles do not announce themselves. They arrive wrapped in poetry.

So no, this is not about calling Taylor a cartoon villain or pretending she is wearing a hood. It is about acknowledging that she used imagery that reinforces a racialized hierarchy, failed to interrogate it, and released it anyway. If you want the praise of being a serious lyricist, you also inherit the responsibility. She missed that responsibility here, and that deserves to be called out.

I've seen so many deep dives into this and it amazes me to see how far people will go to bring her down. I'm a Taylor hater as much as the next Gaga fan, but even I don't throw my back out reaching for the most bizarre thing with no basis because I see something I want to see and am blinded by hate.

Comparing sad times to darkness and happy things to light is the oldest cliche in the book. Countless pieces of art have utilised this over the centuries and NO ONE has ever thought to look at it through a racial lens until now and of course they've chosen to do it with Taylor Swift. Let's just disregard all the POC artists who have done exactly the same thing, no, this one white woman means it in a racist way.

The part that so many purveyors of this theory fail to acknowledge is the other verse where she says that when she was feeling down, her mother told her this motto, telling her that "you're sad now, but happier times are coming" basically. So, Taylor then uses the same piece of advice and applies it to Travis. So the phrase existed independent of him and was just used as a general "things will get better" meaning. But of course, people gloss over that because they want to be pedantic to tear Taylor down. At most, it wasn't a nice way to talk about his exes, but exes have been spoken about much worse in other songs. Nicki Minaj saying stuff like: "His ex bitch went up against me but she didn't survive" and suchlike. No one cares about that but Taylor compares onyx to opalite in a song and she's apparently being racist about the black women her man used to date. Some things are just meant to be taken at face value.

I don't like Taylor but I pride myself on being fair to her. I've got an eye for detail but this is being a next level hater. And I don't think she would've put a black woman and Asian woman in the video if she really intended it to have a racist message. And may I point out that she featured a black man as her love interest in the Lover video? Taylor may be secretly conservative, I could totally believe that. I could even buy that she's not truly interested in the plight of POC. But is she actually racist and wants white supremacy? No. We need to focus on real racial issues that are right in front of us, not looking for obscure lyrics in pop songs.

On 2/5/2026 at 10:49 PM, TheMontebello said:

I don't think this is too far-fetched because the whole album is filled with suspicious lyrics. That one song about wanting a whole neighborhood looking like her white man... Yikes

The problem with that line is that it doesn't make sense and should've been kept in the oven longer or flat-out canned. She simply meant she'd love to have kids that look like Travis, a completely normal thing for anyone to want, but she puts it down totally wrong. The "whole block" means all the houses in the street, so if the whole block looks like him, then their kids are living in other people's houses? She clearly couldn't see the issue with this line and she's surrounded by a team of yes people who know her fans will buy her work regardless and are probably too afraid to question her. If anyone was going to pounce on a potentially racist line, it should be that one but yeah, I could see what she was going for and it ended up sounding unintentionally racist at first glance, unbelievably stupid at second glance.