#meaning behind lyrics

[elizaschuyler18]

My interpretation of the “flower works” from Namjoon’s song:

(This is a thought that came to me when someone ask me about what I believed it meant)

Fireworks 🎆

They are beautiful, full of bright color and mostly they mean something special, right? But they’re ephemeral, they last only a couple of seconds and all that’s left from that moment is smoke. A smoke that disappears leaving a sour smell which is the opposite of the original emotion fireworks create and once the smoke appears no one actually stays to look at it. Smoke is like the signal people are waiting for to leave.

I think flower works are better, you don’t need a fire that can get out of control, there’s no smoke left behind. You blow a dandelion into the wind or throw petals at the sky and they will scatter.

The person that asked me said: “But it’s just the same, they last only a few seconds before being blown far away by the wind. I don’t see a difference.”

When flowers scattered around the world more flowers will grow, it’s something that transcends. They last more than a few seconds, you just need to wait long enough for them to show. From those flowers came more flowers. They create new life, what does smoke creates? Other than the feeling of being so beautiful and presumably special but so easy to move on from at the end of your line once you gave your all.

That’s basically what he’s saying to us. He doesn’t want to be bright, he doesn’t want to be beautiful and he doesn’t want to be just a moment.

He wants to be real, be the kind of person that makes an impact even after 10 years because feelings don’t have expiration dates.

I believe that’s why he mentioned he wants to be with the flowers that have no name. It’s not always the brightest things that caught our attention, it’s the simple yet powerful things in life , the ones that find us when we need them the most.

That’s why Namjoon wants to go from fireworks to flower works.

[familyobligation]

here’s the story behind our latest single, The Loneliest Whale 🐋🛸👽🖤✨

it’s a story in three parts

the first verse is about the loneliest whale. in the 80s, there was a scientist who picked up a weird signal on one of her machines. eventually, she realized that it was the song from a blue whale. what was weird about it was that it was at 52hz, whereas most blue whales songs are at around 20hz.

since this blue whale has such a unique signal, scientists have been able to track it over the years. and they’ve noticed that the whale is always alone — they never pick up the 52hz whale song with the song of another whale. scientists believe this is because the signals are so different. the loneliest whale can’t hear the whale song of other blue whales, and they can’t hear him.

when I learned about the loneliest whale, I immediately thought about aliens. we’re kind of in a similar boat — we’ve been sending out signals and we’ve never gotten a response. are we alone in the universe? or are we just at the wrong frequency? either way, we’re functionally alone. that’s the second verse.

the third verse brings it back to a personal level, and is about how being human is inherently lonely. no matter how well you know another person, you’ll never really know what it’s like to be them.

the short answer is that the song is about loneliness.

[radioslashvideo]

You cannot reach me now, no matter how you try.

GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD, IT'S OVER- WALK ON BY.

@barrenclan

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

“The crowd goes wild at her fingertips/half moonshine, full eclipse” — I don’t mean to overthink (lol) before the songs come out but taken like this (after seeing it set to eras gifs) I love the interpretation I’ve seen that it’s like, she gets on stage and the roar of the crowd is an intoxicating tonic that momentarily overshadows whatever she’s going through. Or, that the magic she creates intoxicates the crowd, all eyes on her in total rapture.

Idk idk idk I know these songs are going to just grab me in a chokehold

[shima-draws]

Writes a full blown essay about why Mary On A Cross is THE Sanlu song to me ever,

[elbiotipo]

The "Safety Dance", an ancient spacer engineering custom attributed to the obscure "Men Without Hats".

[jamiemaybeme]

me earlier today: i'm really tired, i should go to bed earlier tonight

me tonight: *accidentally stays up until 2am reading the interpretations to @bearsintreesofficial's song lyrics on genius*

[containmentbreach]

whatever i’ll say it.‏‏‎ ‎red‏‏‎ ‎white‏‏‎ ‎and‏‏‎ ‎royal‏‏‎ ‎blue‏‏‎ ‎is a movie for liberals and i don’t trust anyone who claims to be left of that and adores it. there is nothing wrong with enjoying meaningless cute fluff once in a while. admittedly i read more cheesy lesbian romcoms than my goodreads would reflect. but this is a movie about topics (the american presidency and the british monarchy) that cannot be stripped of their deeply, NOTORIOUSLY violent roots. you cannot make a movie about two gay boys falling in love cute when one of them is one step removed from the person in charge of nuclear launch codes and the other one is one step removed from someone who is actively still upholding colonialism. you cannot throw in a few buzzwords to make your characters hip with the times and pretend like that makes it fine. if you made jokes about the queen dying but loved the book or the movie you missed the entire point.

also, sorry but‏‏‎ ‎casey‏‏‎ ‎mcquiston‏‏‎ ‎isn’t even a good writer. one‏‏‎ ‎last‏‏‎ ‎stop was trying way too hard. and the mc's mom was a Hashtag Good Cop so they failed to beat the liberal allegations.

[a-s-levynn]

"Even if the sky cracks in mourning / And the heavens just won't open up for me" A Series of Small Offerings - II/12 - day20

[dummerjan]

i just came across ai covers on youtube and people are requesting songs in the comments instead of getting enraged and i am further losing hope in humanity and turning to misanthropy

[skullzy20]

We drag around a shadow with every step we take And every bad decision, now also theirs to make The thief that only borrows in a sea without the shark But who protects the shadow from the dark?

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I am in the mood for some new (to me) music. Do you have any recommendations for songs that make you want to dance? No limits on genre or language, but if you're sending me a link to a specific music video please give me a heads up if it has flashing lights (if possible). Thanks!

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

ivy, i did not just see you say dear reader is your least fave track 😭😭

😭😭😭 look away babe

[behindsonglyrics]

“Question...?” (Midnights) Matty Healy Masterpost

I haven’t done an analytic post in quite some time! I’m a little rusty, but I felt like this would be fun and …Question? has been pondering on my mind for some time now.

Before I hop into it, this is just a personal analysis theory. I’m not Taylor. I cannot ‘confirm’ whether a song is about someone, only Taylor holds those cards. Since it is a solely a theory; if you have a different opinion on ‘who’ you think a song is about, that is ok.

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Now anyways, let’s get started...

Short Summary: …Question? Is a song where the song narrator (singing the song) is specifically reminiscing about a short lived moment of the past, regarding a short-lived situtationship, which we cannot fully call an official relationship because it was fleeting. The song narrator ponders on Questions she’s asking a former brief past lover. The narrator also opens up her heart, and telling her side of the story to that past brief lover, whom she has the Questions to.

Who is the ex fleeting situtationship? (Who the song is about?): Matty Healy.

How is it about Matty, well firstly, I know commonly Harry Styles is thought to be the  muse of this track, and (you never can say never, he very well could ‘still’ be as Harry has similar coincidences experienced and the OOTW sample) but heavily it seems to lay on Matty.

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Let’s take an insight look to the lyrics, in a more depth way:

‘Good girl, sad boy / Big city, wrong choices”

Taylor tends to usually refer herself as a ‘good girl’ and has in previous songs, which narratively make it easily to come to the conclusion she is speaking about herself here. The ‘big city’ she refers to is New York, which, Taylor first met Matty Healy in 2014. New York is the “big city” as it’s often nicknamed the big apple for a reason.

At the time Matty had also met Taylor, it was known he was going through a lot himself: former heroin-addiction, outbursts, etc which led to a band intervention. He was not in a good place at the time of the rumors with Taylor.

“Wrong choices” also aren’t from Matty’s end either, Taylor is also speaking about her own wrong choices in the setting of New York.

“We had one thing goin' on / I swear that it was somethin'”

This is a very specific lyric that many may overlook, but tells a lot by the song narrator. Taylor indicates that she, “swears” they had something going on, meaning there wasn’t anything official, or set in stone. Thus why she, “swears” by it. This lyric here tends to steer me away from the Harry Styles theories, as Harry was in a full fledge (official) relationship with Taylor, unlike Matty where they were briefly having “something going on” even though it was fleeting, and she explains (in the rest of the song, why).

But one thing after another | Fuckin’ situations, circumstances | Miscommunications, and I have to say, by the way | I just want some explanations 

This lyric is quite intriguing because it is insight what led to to derailing and the shortness of this situtationship, and Taylor is asking for an answer (to, whom) she is singing to. Around the time Taylor was seeing Matty (in 2014), briefly as it was just starting up, there was an interview where he described potentially dating Taylor Swift as ‘emasculating’ and denying the possibility of them dating when asked in the past. He later apologized publicly, and said his words were miscommunication, implying they were taken out of context and correcting what he meant.

There is a letter somewhere of his public response, I can’t find the link right now, but it does exist.

Which fits the “miscommunication issues” that led to lost.

Can I ask you a question? Did you ever have anyone kiss someone in a crowded room and every single one of your friends was makin’ fun of you but fifteen seconds later, they were clapping too?

I won’t say much about these lyrics, as it’s a very straight forward retelling specific moment, and Taylor (the narrator) is asking how they felt about that, but it is obvious they shared a kiss, his mates teased him and it’s not the ordinary, only for them to be cheering them on, which mates tend to do. You could also say this scenario is weird for the both of them based on the circumstance.

Half-moon eyes, bad surprise Did you realize out of time?

So, Matty seems to have a hooded eye shape, which you could describe as ‘half-moon’ and when he smiles becomes more obvious in which she is describing. When she also asks, “did you realize out of time?” Is their situtationship coming to an end, and him knowing such.

“She was on your mind with some dickhead guy / That you saw that night”

Now commonly people think these lyrics apply to Harry as Harry looked distressed seeing Taylor with Calvin (masterpost here) but Harry wasn’t the only one during this time who was experiencing this. Around the timing of Matty and Taylor when Taylor started to get close and began seeing Calvin, Matty was there. That exact day. Dickhead guy is also Calvin Harris, btw for anyone specifically curious. 

“But you were on somethin' It was one drink after another”

As already said in this masterpost previously, Matty in the past was taking heavy drugs during this era of time. By 2017, an intervention was held for him by his bandmates. “On something” is pretty on the nose from Taylor.

What also debunks. …Question? Being about Harry Styles, is Harry in an interview himself said he never took drugs, until One Direction split. As he didn’t want to be the one who “fucks up.” It’s been said as well, Harry took One Direction seriously way back then, while his other bandmates (Louis, Zayn) were experimenting. He was “not on something” (Harry) he saw Taylor and Calvin, and that was the BBMA. Unlike Matty who “ran out of time” immediately after, cause after their breath flirting back and forth, Taylor met Calvin right then.

“Fuckin' politics and gender roles”

Matty has been politically outspoken for awhile now, I don’t know too much about him, but 21-year old Harry at the time wasn’t politically outspoken, besides maybe saying “don’t go to sea world” which is all I can really find, etc.

“Got swept away in the gray”

This may or may not be a similar reference like how Halsey paints Matty Healy and associates him with the color gray, he has strips of gray in his hair. Gray (as a color) = associated with some negative connation's, as it symbolizes loss, gloom, etc. Just like “blue’ is associated with describing the feeling of sadness.

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Other than the lyrics, let’s talk about the sampling from OOTW.

There are theories that ‘About You’ may be Matty’s song to Taylor (whether it was written about her ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ up to you), but About You is saying, “did you think I forgotten” while OOTW is, “I remember” … Lastly, it is Jack who has long time worked with Taylor both on OOTW and Question. Both songs are on each others pre-set list as well.

[hermithomebase]

How are you doing? /gen

i could be doing better 😞 my knee injury is having a flare up and it’s causing me some problems so i need to make a doctors appointment soon to try and look into how i can fix it (probably surgery, which scares me.) and i’m having some terrible skin problems but i’m mostly doing okay otherwise..

as for the whole *swirls arms in a vaguely referential way* i guess i’m not surprised but i’m disappointed and angry and so upset for her and every new thing i read makes me angrier but i’m glad to see people who were close to him speak up about it so he’s not getting away with it.

[toastedclownery]