#sophaerostxt

[sophaeros]

for all that the am album gets parodied and reduced to being "just about sex and clubbing" i think it's interesting how the album pokes fun at Itself for this subject matter. it's exemplified in no. 1 party anthem where it subverts the expectation that it would be, yknow, a party-worthy rock anthem like the rest of the album is up to that point. but even as it creates some distance between itself and its subject matter by being relatively slow and melancholy it is also very sincere in how it paints a portrait, almost a love letter to clubbing and the desperate 20-something year old search for connection. in characterising the club and the people in it as shallow in a self aware manner it also gives it depth by empathising with these shallow pursuits and showing how that shallowness reveals the very human underlying desire for connection and distraction from inner turmoil. idk i just think people do it a real disservice dismissing it. it's very much alex turner continuing to demonstrate his ability to reveal the romance and tragedy in our mundane everyday life

[sophthemetest]

new mitski song in soon im shakgn i need to power thru my anthro exam tmr just for this

[sophaeros]

i think if the car alex sang catapult i would have passed out on the spot

[sophaeros]

their lesbian girlboy power couple energy would've been unstoppable (x)

[sophaeros]

tower records @ shibuya :0

[sophaeros]

me when im in a "reflecting on how the love i experience never lasts due to my own flaws and yet i cannot help longing with all my melancholy heart at all times" competition and my opponent is alex turner

[sophaeros]

has anyone made a comp of every eycte outfit matched to the performance? if not i honestly might 💀💀

[sophaeros]

miles saying hes been thinking about singing this song live for the first time and then looking like he was trying not to cry after sntm at his recent show and also last year dublin when he removed a bunch of tlsp songs from his possible setlist playlist right before the shows themselves what happened behind the scenes bro who cocked up what is HAPPENING

[sophaeros]

society if arctic monkeys put blond o sonic shimmer trap on the main album and played it live

[sophaeros]

NOT MY MOM SAYING "so is scared of love dedicated to alex turner or" IM CRYINGGG

[sophaeros]

alex turner put his whole cunt into the second half of star treatment. fuck was he on when he went "don't you know an apparition is a cheap date" "back down to earth with a lounge singer shimmer" "two shows a day four nights a week easy money"

[sophaeros]

my mom and i have been listening to am and tlsp for the past 8 hours straight......

[sophaeros]

this song gets played so much and yet we never really talk about the fucking imagery of these lines. i am not immune to late afternoon and ghost imagery

[sophaeros]

x

[sophaeros]

actually wait i wanna see everyone's 5 most recently added songs. mine are

sick bitch - lsdxoxo

bustduster - lustsickpuppy

amaranthine - crywolf

music when the lights go out - the libertines

escape (the pina colada song) - rupert holmes

@folaireamh @cluedoenthusiast @chemicalarospec @joshus-lobster @the-wank-shank @bandomgay @rymbrr (no obligation ofc)

[sophaeros]

why do the people parodying am act like the lyrics are always a completely incomprehensible disconnected series of images..if anything the am album which is the one they always parody is the most straightforward 😭