#october passed me by

[music]

Artist of the Month: girl in red

October almost passed us by but not before we could announce girl in red as our Artist of the Month. 🍂

girl in red's new single "October Passed Me By" is out now so be sure to listen to it right here!

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October passed me by just like any month.

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

[purpletrashcans]

I wish i could watch spn for the first time again

I wish i could listen to October passed me by for the first time again

I wish i could read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for the first time again

But i don't wish i could read Radio Silence for the first time again, because everytime i read it it just gets better

[deeplywornletters]

How we doing fellow sapphics

[lesbicosmos]

FUCK YEAH ITS OCTOBER

but is it gonna be

or

[iambecomeyourvillain]

i'm

[cosmorom]

it's october...y'all know what this means

[marieandersoneq]

October 2023

[saltylizard5713]

I did a thing :'))

sound on 🔊

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

hello! it’s lesbian storytime with me, zilly gooze!

so i physically can’t listen to we fell in love in october by girl in red because it reminds me of my last relationship which was… not optimal, to say the least. she was my best friend, which is already just not great. she wanted a girlfriend, not me as her girlfriend, and so i felt undervalued and like she didn’t actually like me romantically (turns out i was right lol).

but anyways, i realized i had a crush on her in october of one year, we officially began dating in october of the next year. we fell in love in october became the song i thought was ours, ya kno?

ever since she dumped me during one of the worst points of my life (which yeah, thanks for bein a good friend there bucko), i have hated that song with a passion and will not, under any circumstances, listen to it.

well, sapphics are to girl in red as moths are to a flame, and so i recently started listening to her again because she’s good ya kno?

i was not prepared for the absolute gut punch that October Passed Me By was.

see, in wfilio, the speaker keeps repeating “you will be my girl… you will be my world.” she is super super into this girl and wants to be her girlfriend so bad. it’s romantic, its slow, it’s sweet, it’s filled with longing, it’s everything you want a girl to say to you.

but OPMB is the sequel to wfilio. it tells the story of the fallout of the relationship that wfilio set up. it’s faster , it’s melancholic, it’s utterly mournful. she’s trying to move on, but, as she says in the last verse, her ex is “always in the back of [her] mind.”

most devastatingly, though, is that she repeats lyrics from wfilio- she mentions being busy looking at the stars, alluding to the line “looking at the stars / admiring them from afar,” with ‘stars’ meaning this girl she wanted to date. she repeats “i made you my whole world,” referencing the line “you will be my world” in wfilio. finally, she says, “screaming at the top of my lungs, i love you, my girl” and ends the song with “you will be my girl,” with both lines being references to wfilio’s line “you will be my girl.”

this mirroring, this pining that resulted in sadness and breakup, is literally a replica of my relationship. i fell in love in october, and i thought that my girl was fantastic and lovely. but then she started distancing herself from me, and as OPMB says, “i got bitter when you got cold / and could you really blame me though?”

“it wasn’t all good, yeah, it wasn’t all pretty.” omfg. i cannot count the number of times i told myself that my relationship was fine, it was good, it was all going great. and it wasn’t. i was lying. my ex was lying. i was just hoping that i could will a good relationship into existence (turns out you can’t, which kinda sucks imo :p).

the parallels are absolutely insane from these songs to my life. and when i heard October Passed Me By yesterday for the first time, it literally shattered me. i love it so much.

lastly, i will leave you with the cover art for each single.

we fell in love in october (2018)

October Passed Me By (2022)

oh. my. fucking. god.

THIS IS ART

[clarityroses]

Girl in red songs are so fall coded

[deadpoetsfall]

yet another october to come without me falling in love. im depressed & desperate for love

[letmywingsdown]

“Always in the back of my mind you’ll be my girl”

[strawberryfaced]

OH MY GOD WAIT october passed me by = WILMON???? LIKE

“yeah i got bitter when you got cold could you really blame me though? cause im still tied up when you go you know this song is about you who else could it be? you were the first to make me feel like i was me”

AND

“it wasn’t all good yeah it wasn’t all pretty lost our grip while tryna go steady holding on to you like maybe one day we’ll meet met you at the wrong time didn’t wanna see”

[lonlylook]

Goodbye october

"October passed me by"