I promise to eat something, drink some water, and touch grass after this post… I just love puzzles and Taylor Swift and her Easter eggs and music videos because they’re so I spy and puzzle coded… I just can’t help myself… the spray bottles themselves… The bodies are the same but the heads are oriented differently which could mean a lot of different things… possibly in alphabet soup ways… and possibly political ways, etc.
But since the whole LGBTQ pride colors and symbols seem to kind of be a key of sorts to this puzzle. I think we have to pay attention to the colors on the bottles in that same context. Teal and orange in the OG 1978 pride flag stand for “Magic” and “Healing” respectively. The Opalite bottle’s label promises “magical results;” I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
I’m sure magic and healing were meant as good/positive things for the LGBTQ community back in 1978 by the dude who designed this flag, but in Taylor Swift world…
She likens herself to a “magician” and an “illusionist” with “bait and switches” who “can show you lies” A LOT, especially during Reputation and some of her later songs like Cowboy Like Me and Wood.
In her “But Daddy I Love Him” lyrics “healing” and “being saved” aren’t really healing and being saved. These things are being done by “the Sarah’s and the Hannah’s” at church while they’re “clutching their pearls and sighing what a mess“ “I learned these people only try to ‘save’ you because they hate you”…
Back to Anita Bryant with the Florida Orange Juice company… from the YNTCD music video (and I think Anita Bryant is also referenced again in Taylor’s Fate of Ophelia music video) and Ms. Bryant’s “Save the Children, Heal the Gays” campaign.
And we know that Opalite is man-made and fake, it’s not worth anything compared to the real thing, Opal… (I’m not good at transitions but just stay with me here)
Now… moving on to the Nopealite bottle… It’s hot pink and yellow… according to the OG 1978 Pride flag, hot pink = sex/sexuality (which is kind of, arguably the whole point of all of this)… and yellow = sunshine/light… (side note: Taylor’s shirt is also hot pink and yellow in the mall scene and it has the “hang in there” poster kitten on it-not sure what it means but think it’s notable).
Back to the spray bottle, It’s label says it “reverses opalite”. If Opalite was really a “magical healing” potion, why would you create something to reverse it? You’d be healed; no one would choose to “unheal” themselves.
In reading the epilogue of the music video, Nopealite took Stapler back to reality and showed him he needed therapy to really heal.
Also the whole music video looks very dimly lit… and I think it’s a metaphor… There’s a veil over our eyes, or we’re in a closet away from the windows… This isn’t reality. Nopealite takes you back to reality so you can shine light on your problems and really fix them the right way, not by turning yourself into someone or something else.
Lastly, opalite looks like murky orange juice in the sunlight, while real opal looks like a rainbow 🌈