someone made the fatal mistake of indicating that they would like to see me explain why i put every song into the jamie tartt but it's just mitski playlist so. here's that. i cannot be held responsible for how unwell im about to get OR how long this will be LOL
i don’t smoke
so if you need to be mean
be mean to me
i can take it and put it inside of me
look at that little masochist.
starting off strong with the royjamie flavor on this one
but i don’t think it exclusively applies to rj, i think jamie’s sort of like. he is a dick he knows how to cope with people being dicks he understand it its easy to deal with. someone is a dick to me im going to be a dick back. short and sweet.
that mf is CONSTANTLY poking and prodding roy in s1 until that mf bites him. so that mf bites him. by s3 i think its less of “we are antagonizing each other as enemies” and more like. jamie voice you need to be a dick and i can take it.
if your hands need to break
more than trinkets in your room
you can lean on my arm
as you break my heart
this line specifically feels like the rj fight in the finale to me if we’re open and honest and vulnerable with one another
just don't leave me alone
wondering where you are
i am stronger than you give me credit for
we are all in agreement that jamie needs smothering. i think roy would be hyperaware of Not smothering him if they got into a relationship and i think jamie would feel a little bit like spongebob under the heat lamp
washing machine heart
baby will you kiss me already and
toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart?
baby, bang it up inside
baby, though i've closed my eyes
i know who you pretend i am
this is just me doing cocomelon shit to jamie tbh.
even if roy isn’t using jamie as a rebound i think maybe it would not be a stretch of imagination for jamie to Think roy is using him as a rebound
especially if contextualized with like. mom city jamie catching them holding hands in his bed and it’s keeley who pulls away not roy. delicious
nobody
and i don't want your pity
i just want somebody near me
guess i'm a coward
i just want to feel alright
iiiii just think jamie is a sopping wet little creature. yeah he’d kick the shit out of me so so easily and he’s also a terrible asshole but have you considered he’s such a sad lonely little guy sometimes
i also do think he would feel like a coward for not wanting to be alone whether or not he would admit to that feeling
like we saw him back at city we saw him drop those mfs like a sack of potatoes we saw how desperate he was for connection when he came back to richmond
desperate for connection but also for the entirety of season one absolutely unwilling to form meaningful connections; maybe because of his dogshit Coping Mechanisms maybe because he's just on loan and knows he won't be here long maybe hes just an Asshole maybe a deadly cocktail of all of the above lol
i've been big and small
and big and small
and big and small again
and still nobody wants me
yeah. this one feels especially violently jamie LOL
he's been hot shit. he's been richmond's best player. he's also been just one of a million top players at city. he's been the bully and he's been subject to the boys giving it back to him. he's been the center of attention he's been no one at all
and still keeley doesn't want him. roy doesn't want him. we don't really see him pursue anyone else whether or not you want to read that as rj/rjk/jk. fascinates me.
of course people want jamie we know he gets around but i'm talking Meaningful Connections here
remember my name
i need something bigger than the sky
hold it in my arms and know it's mine
just how many stars will i need to hang around me
to finally call it heaven?
again. we see each other. jamie NEEEEEDS someone to smother him to death with love if he's not suffocating on it he doesn't want it!!
jamie surrounds himself with pretty things and pretty people and i don't think he thinks its meaningless or anything but i do think he definitely wants more and that's very evident come s3
'cause i need somebody to remember my name
after all that i can do for them is done
i need someone to remember me
see above point
but also. hold my hand through some willful misinterpretation of these lyrics. jamie wants to be the fucking best he wants to be a legend he wants to be listed among the greats. clearly not his sole motivation anymore during/post s3 but i do think it's still incredibly important to his character
he can't be some Guy from manchester he wants people to list "tartt" alongside pelé and maradona and what have you. i think this is critical to understanding jamie he refuses to be forgotten
cop car
i get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog
we do dog metaphor around these parts.
but for realsies i think this is very much jamie even into s3
when he gets defensive he gets mean
like we see him definitely falter with zava, this isn't his only method of shutting down but i do think he's absolutely prone to snarling and biting when he doesn't know how to react
he gets defensive. reverts to being a dick. see: bar scene in finale
i was meant for running fast
i pretended you were mine, it made me calm babe
walk with me. s3 royjamie.
or at least how jamie thinks about him if nothing else
which. you know. could help explain his lashing out at the bar.
i've loved many boys, i've loved many girls
i don't think about the past, it's always there anyway
this is a cheap shot. i see a little tormented bisexual man and go is anyone gonna chew on that and then dont wait for an answer
mf does Not like dealing with his past or his traumas lol. it's always there anyway.
townie
'cause we've tried hungry and we've tried full and
nothing seems enough
fuck off jamie is starving to death and he hasn't ever managed to get rid of that feeling. trust. i'm right about this.
he's fucked around and he's partied and he's done the reckless drinking and he's done the casual coke and he's done meaningful relationship but he can't get anything right.
he's been starved his whole life and he doesn't know how to fix it.
and i want a love that falls as fast
as a body from the balcony, and
i want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
we all know love and violence are inextricable for jamie. they're the same. he's still pulling those apart
i think he's very much the sort of guy who wants it fast and hard and intense and he wants to feel all consumed, wants it to feel dangerous and too much
i'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
though i don't know what I'm waiting for
i am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
i think the holding my breath but i don't know why is Very applicable to jamie's whole deal.
like just in how he copes with his various traumas most of all james
which ties in very fun with the last line. like so much of his arc is that hes Not gonna be what his daddy wants him to be. he's gonna be what his body wants him to be.
i also think this is probably how jamie is in a relationship with roy or roykeeley like he's waiting for something that isnt ever going to come with them because they arent going to hurt him in a way he doesn't Want if they are together
dunno. he fascinates me.
old friend
i haven't told anyone
just like we promised
have you?
every time i drive through the city where you're from
i squeeze a little
this verse right here is so so so very royjamie to me okay
we know jamie doesn't like people Poking around in his relationships on TOP of you know. violent homophobia in football world
secret little torrid affair between the two of them. lives in my brain
abbey
i am hungry
i have been hungry
i was born hungry
what do i need?
come onnnnnnnn
this is so jamie it makes me want to pass out
he's so fucking hungry he's always searching for something to hold onto or tear into with his teeth. jamie and hunger are like synonyms to me.
alongside the inability to name what it is he's hungry for!
incapable of admitting that it's love! it's always been love!! most especially from the people he's refusing to accept it from!!
i am something
i have been something
i was born something
what could i be?
jamie's whole life is built on Being Somebody; he is a young, sexy, rich, famous prem player like. he is Somebody. he's Something. he's a footballer but like
who is he beyond that?
i think perhaps mr tartt would have a little bit of trouble answering that one
valentine, texas
let's step carefully into the dark
once we're in, i'll remember my way around
who will i be tonight?
who will i become tonight?
this one may be sort of a stretch but i think jamie very much sort of molds himself to what he knows someone will like in interpersonal relationships?
like he's very head strong very loud personality but when we see him alone with keeley and we see him alone with roy and see him alone with ted they're all Such different people
which is aided by the fact theyre all sort of in different points of his character arc
but i also think he sort of cant help himself when he's alone with someone
stay soft
you stay soft, get beaten
only natural to harden up
don't think i really need to explain this one we all saw the boot scene
i am face down on my bed
still not quite awake yet
thinking of you
i tuck my hand under my weight
just tell me what you want to do
tell me what you want
to burn away
'cause i could be your stoker
i think this could be split into two sections but i think it functions SOOO well as one it is important
yeah i'm thinking of you in the low morning light. yeah i can be what you need i can burn away parts of both of us i can make you forget
love me more
if i keep myself at home
i won't make the same mistake
that I made for fifteen years
i could be a new girl
i will be a new girl
think this line is just very indicative of jamie's whole brainspace vis a vis his improvement and development
he wants to be someone else so bad by the time s2 comes around. ugh.
here's my hand
there's the itch
but i'm not supposed to scratch
he seems very much the type to deny himself things
obviously not like. fun stuff. casual stuff.
but i mean like. things that will make him seem Soft. love and what have ye.
i'm not supposed to be someone who wants something i'm not supposed to slake this thirst
be it for gay reasons or otherwise btw. i'm interpreting it bisexual style but you get the idea
i need you to love me more
love enough to fill me up
love enough to drown it out
drown it out, drown me out
i cut some repetition and stuff for brevity's sake comma but
this verse right here. this is the real jamie of the song
fill me up. drown me out. i'm too much even for me (even if i think im gods gift to football).
need to be smothered!!!!! fill me up!!!!! drown it out!!!!! the buzzing in my head and the want in my lungs i cant take it take it from me!!
how do other people live?
i wonder how they keep it up?
when today is finally done
there's another day to come
mom city sadboy era right here
i wash my hair but i don't use conditioner because like. what's the point!!!
should've been me
relive all the ways you still want me
i haven't given you what you need
you wanted me but couldn't reach me
i'm sorry it should've been me
this is jamiekeeley to me
clearly it still tugs at him like. the funeral confessions and inviting to her brazil and fisticuffing in the dirt
whether or not he still feels romantically about her in s3 i think he probably still feels Bad about what a shit he was in s1 specifically to keeley
idk. maybe this one's just me. think he's very very very squirmy about her and roy's relationship to start and then it melts into something Different you know? should've been me. sorry.
geyser
you're my number one
you're the one i want
and you've turned down
every hand that has beckoned me to come
you're my number one
you're the one i want
and I've turned down every hand
that has beckoned me to come
royjamie to me.
that line in s3 where keeley says she hasnt seen/heard about jamie being with anyone in a really long time. the way we know roy also not really accepting offers is he.
yall know the fic that's like. the first time they hook up, roy pauses mid thrust to say "this is a one time thing. i'm still messed up over keeley." that sort of vibe
and ram jamming the "had a poster of you on my wall when i was a kid. used to think you were the best." and teaching him to ride a bike and gravitating toward roy all the time and absolutely panting and drooling for his attention any way he can get it its all just like. yeah. you're my number one. you're the one i want.
feel it bubbling from below
hear it call, hear it call
hear it call to me
constantly
and hear the harmony
only when it's harming me
it's not real, it's not real
it's not real enough
but i will be the one you need
the way i can't be without you
i will be the one you need
i just can't be without you
snifflin and sobbin
all points from the last bit also apply to this bit tbh..
i will be the one you need. i just can't be without you. but theres a fucking volcano in my chest that's telling me to cut ties and run that'll burn us both. i can only understand it when it hurts.
blue light
somebody kiss me, i'm going crazy
i'm walking 'round the house naked
how long's a man meant to be alone??
also. well. he does walk around the house naked doesn't he.
he wants so deeply too i think he thinks being loved could fix him. even if it's temporary. even if it doesn't matter. maybe this is why he fucks around so hard in s1 maybe this is why he's still so messed up about keeley after they break up maybe this is why he's o obsessed with roy. we'll never know but man do i think about it!
out there i'm a sharp knife
look me in the eyes and tell me this isn't what the prick signal thing is about
he is a sharp knife. he is cutting through opposing teams he's such a shit and he's efficient and useful and good at what he does
there's something smart to be said about this one specifically but my brain is feeling a little bit like mush
pink in the night
i glow pink in the night in my room
i've been blossoming alone over you
and i hear my heart breaking tonight
i hear my heart breaking tonight
do you hear it too?
i'm a big boy i can admit to this being self indulgent
royjamie innit tho
just love the flavor of jamie thinking its unrequited and hes a freak weirdo for being into roy (his ex's ex, his frenemy, his coach, the guy who's gone out of his way again ans again and again to make sure jamie is okay even when he does it with a headbutt and all grumbily and jamie is making it Weird by getting one ounce of affection and love and falling in love) (roy is thinking the same thing but opposite. trust.)
i could stare at your back all day
i could stare at your back all day
and i know i've kissed you before, but
i didn't do it right
can i try again, try again, try again
see this bit could actually be jamiekeeley
i never stopped pining. i know i fucked up. please can i try again try again try again i'm better i know how to love you now.
when you combine these two verses you get rjk. trust.
but i can also very much see rj going from a weird fwb thing to a relationship or at least jamie pining over him so much it makes him sick and pretending those kisses are Something. do you get me. you get me.
once more to see you
in the rearview mirror, i saw the setting sun on your neck
and felt the taste of you bubble up inside me
but with everybody watching us, our every move
we do have reputations
we keep it secret
won't let them have it
SHUT UP!!!!!! ROYJAMIE ANTHEM SHUT UP!!!!!!!
shut up. are you kidding me.
not only do we know jamie is incredibly cagey about people shoving their fingers into his (personal?) love life, we know that this would be Their secret maybe always, maybe to start, no one on this big blue ball would explicitly Know about them
people guess and they guess right but this relationship is sacred its secret its Theirs
they have reputations, after all
and letting people know is opening them both up to a whole world of horrible no good very bad shit storm and and and
aguhuguhaughagaguayga
so come inside and be with me, alone with me
alone, with me alone
if you would let me give you pinky promise kisses
then i wouldn't have to scream your name
atop of every roof in the city of my heart
ok this imagery just kinda makes me nauseous move along
thursday girl
glory, glory, glory
to the night that shows me what I am
as i go to the party
on my knees
saying take it
oh please
party girl isnt he
think we could talk about that as a persona/way to cope but. that might be making things a little deeper than they are. i might be in too deep about mr tartt
and tell me no
tell me no
tell me no
tell me no
somebody please tell me no
this however is not me in too deep this is just real
on hand and knee begging someone to tell him no. sometimes it's ted most of the time it's roy. what are you gonna do
a loving feeling
what do you do with a loving feeling
if the loving feeling makes you all alone?
what do you do with a loving feeling
if they only love you when you're all alone?
can we talk about royjamie i've been dying to talk about royjamie
really into the image of jamie pining and being sooo fucking angry about it. how did i get here this is BULLSHIT!!!
i think there is an understanding that they Can't be public even if they Are in a relationship and jamie doesn't even necessarily Want people to know about them but he is fucking punching a wall about it in the privacy of his own home
^ that bit is for the last line ONLY. separate thoughts, making you all alone and loving all alone
i think this could also very very easily be rjk with the trope we all know and love: rk as an established couple and jamie knowing he's just a third to spice things up for them. whether or not he actually is is between you and your maker.
holding hands under a table
meeting up in your bedroom
making love to other people
telling each other it's all good
kisses like pink cotton candy
talking to everyone but me
i'm stayin' on later just in case
you come up and ask to leave with me
sorry you want me to believe this is not rj? you want me to believe in my heart of hearts this isn't exactly where they start? i don't believe you. you are lying to yourself and to me.
first love/late spring
wild women don't get the blues
but I find that
lately i've been crying like a
tall child
you saw mom city. you get it.
one word from you and i would
jump off of this
ledge i'm on
baby
tell me "don't"
so i can
crawl back in
he's a good listener by s3 aint he
i just think its interesting who he's listening to. okay
and i was so young
when i behaved
twenty five
yet now i find
i've grown into
a tall child
i think jamie definitely had to fend for himself a lot as a youngin as the only child of a single mom who was clearly struggling
everyone is always (rightly) calling him a child in s1 but have they considered he's just a 23 y/o teenage girl
i think the "such a child." line from roy uhhh really struck him please look at his face after roy says this. i'm not even making this a royjamie verse but clearly that struck him in some sort of way
to have your childhood hero look you in the eye and belittle you so clearly and concisely in a way that very clearly stung
i dunno. fascinates me. fascinating little creature that jamie tartt.
goodbye, my danish sweetheart
there's nobody better than you
it took me a while 'til i knew
but you knew from the start it was us, didn't you?
it just took me a while 'til i knew
jamiekeeley w, this song.
i think it's also a very rose colored glasses way to view rj
which you know what. makes it a very good rjk song doesnt it.
so, i don't blame you
if you want to bury me in your memory
i'm not the girl i ought to be, but
maybe when you tell your friends
you can tell them what you saw in me
and not how i turned out to be
pure unadulterated jamiekeeley right here.
i fucked it up. i'm not who i'm supposed to be. i'm not who i was supposed to be for you. but maybe when you tell people about me and about us you can tell them who you wanted me to be because he's better than who i am.
ugh.
there's some kind of burning inside me
it's kept me from falling apart
and i'm sure that you've seen what it's done to my heart
but it's kept me from falling apart
this is so so so so so so jamie. come ON.
there is a fire in him and he doesn't really know how to field it or when to fan it and its burning through him in s1/most of s2.
it's launched him into being one of the best in his sport but it's also ruining the good things around him
little idiot does NOT understand human connection in s1. love him bad.
you're a battler, jamie.
now here i lay as i wonder about you
would you just tell me what i'm meant to do?
'cause i've waited and watered my heart 'til it grew
you can see how it's blossomed for you
you know who's really really good at telling jamie what to do.
and i don't mean to make your heart blue
but could we be what we're meant to be?
i'm just about to beg you, please
and then, when you tell your friends
you can tell them what you saw in me
and not the way i used to be
back to jk with this one. i personally believe it's very rjk but it's textually very jk.
i'm better than i was. please believe in me. lets try again and lets be better than we were i know how to love you now.
humpty
i broke our belongings
they're all on the floor
the room is now empty
nothing left to throw
all the eggshells are on the ground
and i try, i'm trying to pick them up
but they crack and crumble, it's all too much
too frail for me to touch
idk if i can really justify this one much outside of my own head it's just real okay.
i think jamie knows he chronically fucked up with keeley. i think he also knows he can and will lash out with very little provocation.
he's trying to pick up what he fucked up (think early s2) but it's a fucking nightmare and he's gonna have to slog around with tweezers to pick up the pieces of what he fucked
i'm realizing this song is very roy also but of course it is they're the same guy as much as they are fundamentally different
i broke what you gave me
but you kept giving
more
and I'm sorry for taking
but I keep wanting
more, more, more
see all above points and ttb for my thoughts about the black hole in jamie tartt's chest
shame
i never was very good
i haven't been so good
but right outside the door nobody knows
they're right outside the door and they don't know how it
feels so good
it feels so good
right outside the door everyone knows. they know it.
i think this ones sort of up to interpretation
idk. is it sexy? is it the ache in him in knowing how awful he was for so long? is it both and neither?
my brain is turning to mush i think. too much jamie in the diet
class of 2013
mom, i'm tired
can i sleep in your house tonight?
mom, is it alright
if i stay for a year or two?
listen. jamie does not have this brand of mommy issues. i'll own up to that.
i hear the word "mom" and enter a fugue state thinking about mom city
this one's just for me it doesn't have to make sense
liquid smooth
i'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
and feel my skin is plump and full of life
i'm in my prime
i'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
i'm at my highest peak, i'm ripe
about to fall, capture me
or at least take my picture
kuzurete yuku maeni
i'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living
beginning to end
c'mon.
he is a fine young thing. and sneaking in the "before i fall apart?" yeah. real.
jamie thesis. i'm young and sexy i'm in my fucking PRIME touch me take a picture of me remember me remember me i'm holding on by the skin of my teeth. don't look too hard because i might start to crumble in your hands.
brand new city
i think my fate is losing its patience
i think the ground is pulling me down
i think my life is losing momentum
i think my ways are wearing me down
i think you could narrow this moment of his down to mom city where he is just so Lost.
but i think more appropriately you could absolutely name his whole arc in late s1/early s2
this stupid life i stupid lead is causing everything to crash down around me but i don't know how else to live or act or behave
i'm jamie fucking tartt!!
but if i gave up on being pretty, i wouldn't know how to be alive
i just think this is him don't mind me
like obviously he's more than his pretty he is jamie fucking tartt and he's a shooting star at what he does. yeah, i work hard. but.
i also think being pretty and being desired is his like. number two personality trait
or at least thats what he wants us to see him as. you know??
eric
you like control, well, i do too
take off my clothes and watch me move
you can come closer, i'll let you hurt me how you choose
well. we've all seen how roy and jamie interact with one another haven't we.
but how long, how long can we play this way
i'm tired, i'm tired of not loving you
my heart, my heart wants to hold you
but i know, i know, i know the rules
blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth
as you smile at my trembling shoulders
but your skin, did you notice your skin
it cries a soft weep like mine
i'll sell, i'll sell my heart to you
what's my, what's my, what's my price?
how 'bout, how 'bout just a part of you?
'cause i want, i want, i want, i want
i want, i want, i want, i want, i want
i really did try to narrow this down and not include almost uhhhh the whole rest of the song but good GOD. royjamie anthem.
jamie wants SOOOO BADLY!!!!!! but has almost certainly convinced himself it's just sex with roy!!! doesnt matter if roy is tits over tail obsessed with him (canonical) or if it actually just IS rebound sex.
this is real to me. sorry. royjamie anthem.
he wants.
door
i looked out at the dark and wondered
how could I have lost it?
a hopeless violence
i named it love
so. i did not want to include an entire song twice in a row but this song very much tells a story you kinda gotta listen to the whole thing to get the picture
but
i think this one is VERY jamiecore.
denying himself this integral part of himself as both like. a man living in a very masculine sphere of the world on top of being a victim of abuse that canonically leans in on his masculinity
swearing to be so tough his dad could never call him soft again??
and also jamie's whole like. proximity to love and violence and presentation and consumption
idk if this is making any sense but god it IS real.
i lost this part of me and this part was love and real human connection and it is a gnawing biting clawing thing i need to love and be loved in a way that scares me and most often with teeth tearing into me. augh.
real men
real men don't need other people, and
real men suck it in
real men don't flinch or bleed in public
oh, i think i'm a real man
look at me in my eyes and tell me this isn't Exactly jamie's thought process in s1. arguably even through his character arc to the end.
though honestly, sir
all i wanna do is get naked in front of you
so you can look me up and down
and give me your love for being so good
but little boys hold me, color me
praise me, make me feel lovely
for a little while
so little boy, say you want me
'cause, well, i can't take it
go ahead
do it, do it
sorry. you want Me? a royjamie? to be normal about these verses?
especially when jamie's whole thing is fucking. making himself desirable and putting on a show. peacocking is his #1 favorite activity of all time.
and roy's whole thing is. well. roy's whole thing. watching him with his eyes glued to the little fuck even when he's sucking his teeth so so so angrily and spitting mad
i just think jamie loves an audience whether or not its good for him and roy can't do anything but watch. they're trapped. sisyphiean in nature aint it.
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