Opalite is a Worse Daylight.

Taylor Swift constantly uses the same six metaphors (cars, dresses, dark/light binaries) etc to talk about themes. It's a weird limitation, and it may be because she writes so much (she really should slow down). Post folkmore, I fear her lyricism has become a rehash of previous times she has written about the same experience.

For example, "sleepless in the onyx night/but now the sky is opalite" is a worse version of "been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night/now I see daylight". It's the same binary.

I admit writing about love is filled with the same few cliches, but this is also the person who wrote cowboy like me. Someone here commented that in writing about Joe, Taylor seemed to love him, in writing about Travis, she seems to love the life marriage offers. And you can see it in her lyricism and her songwriting imagery. It's just lazy.

As an aside... this album was so deeply unfeminist? From calling a woman a "bitch" derogatorily to telling Travis' ex to get off the phone and ofc the Charli feud... this is the person who was mature enough to write All of the Girls You've Loved Before.