Please please please tell us your bad omens music video thoughts! Personally I interpret it as the red flags taking ahold of them, ignoring the toxicity of the relationship until they crash, going right back to square one, the cycle continuing endlessly. i don’t think they’re the toxic ones in this song and music video because I do think it focuses on the “bad omens”, on those red flags they keep ignoring, that blinds them. The symbolism in the video is nuts and I wanna hear your interpretation!
so, ok, here's my thing with "Bad Omens."
When I first listened to the song, obviously it seemed to me that the brown-eyed person - who, for the ease of this ask, I'm gonna call The Girl and I'm gonna call the narrator The Boy - is the one who is uncommitted to the relationship and in love with "somebody else." But something that I noticed that started to confuse me after my initial listen is that the song ends on "when you love somebody else" from the boy's perspective (where it goes through the whole "I jump back in bed, I look through all these bad omens because that's what you do when you love somebody else"), which then made me go "hold on, wait, is he the one who's in love with someone else? Are they both in love with someone else?" Which then got me thinking, oh, maybe this is a situation where neither are committed to the relationship anymore and they're both going off and seeing other people but staying together because to this point they've established they're "supposed" to be together and it would feel weird to break up (especially I think... and this is me projecting so take this with a grain of salt... that a touring musician's love life is a lot different than the average person's. you don't see your significant other very much at all during tours and that definitely allows a lot of room to get detached from them and to become attached to different people).
So then it got me thinking about "Not In The Same Way" from CALM which is in all forms a duologue. The song is from the girl and the boy's perspective - which is confirmed, I'm not just making this up or talking out of my ass; Luke has said this before in an interview - but it's mixed up so much that sometimes it's hard to tell who is saying what. Like, I have no idea who the bridge's perspective is from. But the chorus is supposed to be from the girl's and the verses are from the boy's. And I think maybe "Bad Omens" is doing the same thing, at least in some ways. Especially because in the music video, he's seeing all the red flags and she's yelling at him in the front seat, but he's the one in the backseat who's making out with another girl. That doesn't really make him out to be just someone who's being left for someone else because they aren't loved anymore.
I definitely agree that it's about ignoring all the red flags and the toxicity but I think it's about that from both perspectives tbh rather than just one. Because it's worth noticing that she gets back into the car to come get him. He's the one coming back, but she's the one letting him back in.
Basically, what I took from it was... here are two people who fell in love and got into a rhythm of being in a relationship despite the fact that there are constant red flags sprouting up from both sides, and then they constantly go back to each other despite knowing they shouldn't because they both keep doing bad things to each other.
I do also have to mention that it makes me think about that fucking beautiful Bojack Horseman quote that goes "it's funny, when you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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I hope you feel pretty now babes, you're beautiful, funny and talented you deserve to look at yourself in awe and fall in love with your reflection 💘
ahhh thank you so much <333 this is so so so beyond sweet and i absolutely do !!!
i think it was more so just an expectation of feeling like a princess and the disappointment of it not being that way. i mean like i look back on photos and think i looked pretty but i felt so awkward and uncomfy the entirety of actual prom and just ended up being disappointed.
it was a good night all in all though. i spent the time before, during, and after the after-party with my most favorite people in the world, so it wasn't all bad <3
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