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Can we talk about the Ever After album by Marianas Trench? I just-- it's beautiful. I used to listen to "Ever After" (the song) on repeat for hours when I was in high school, and while I liked a lot of their other songs, I never realized the absolute EXPERIENCE listening to the entire album in order would be. The song I've memorized all these years essentially continues for about an hour. I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS
#nothing has brought me more joy and intrigue these past few days than this album#I've never ever listened to a full album and enjoyed all of it#it's because it feels beautifully strung together#each song with callbacks to past ones or hints at future ones#and the consistent presence of the choir and those same notes coming back subtly or not so subtly#and the INSTRUMENTATION#OUGHH#it's like a mixture of modern pop/rock (in 2011) and synthesizers and electronic and gospel/choral/churchey music sounds#and the meaning for me#is so much deeper than a simple listening of each song#It's the Human Experience#the complications of love and the way it waxes and wanes in different ways over and over forever after#how there is no one definition#how it isn't always beautiful#how even the awful and torturous parts of it are worth living through somehow#how we just keep keeping on anyway#ik the actual 'storyline' is like fairy tale related#but I can't make that work cohesively for me#i guess for me the fairytale part is more important because it highlights our expectations of love and life#even through the twistedness that can arise from that Right and Wrong way of thinking#until eventually we land in a realization that those golden ideals were never to be trusted and we can only decide our own feelings#grieving for the loss of that golden happily ever after#and yet a confidence in taking ahold of one's own fate in a realistic way#also unrelated to literally everything else but#apparently there's a lute in there somewhere and I have no idea where but I find that hilarious#anyway LISTEN TO IT PLEASE I BEG YOU#OR TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK ABT IT PLEASE#OKAY THAT IS ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY IF YOU SURVIVED THIS FAR
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