Thinking about “evermore,” as you do, and something struck me about it this afternoon.
One of the things I love about the song is its imagery. It’s a song about the depths of grief and sadness (and depression), but instead of saying it explicitly, it’s all about conveying it with the mood. E.g. “Gray November, I’ve been down since July” = been in the pits of it for months, “Motion caption put me in a bad light” = freeze framing a bad time in your mind (or in the minds of others), “I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, trying to find the one where I went wrong” = mulling over your actions over and over again trying to figure out if it’s something you did that has led you here, what you could have done differently to prevent this from happening, etc. “Writing letters addressed to the fire” = thinking of the million different ways you could have said something (or done something) but never being able to do anything about it, basically screaming into the void. And so on.
You’ve got all the imagery of being stranded alone in the winter cold, waves crashing, etc. Which on the surface lends itself to the “Victorian cabin” mood of the folklore/evermore era that Taylor talks about in her speeches every night at her concerts, but obviously stands in for feeling lonely and alone and unbalanced, and fighting your way back to yourself after going through the depths of despair.
One of the curious parts I’ve been thinking of is that the verses and the chorus are very self-centered — not in a narcissistic way, but in the sense that it’s very much about the narrator’s feelings of loss and isolation. Then the bridge hits and in the cracks of light “I thought of you,” dreamed of you, etc. Because “you were there,” and thats’s when the story flips from insurmountable pain to the first rays of hope by the end of the song.
But the one part that really struck me today was, “And I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step,” specifically because she’s talked so much about the fantasy cabin on tour. When I used to listen to the song, I loved the imagery (and sound) of that line, because she’s finally on solid ground after being tossed and turned in the water, but in light of how she’s talked about where her imagination took her in 2020, it also strikes me (intentional or not) as a metaphor for that whole uneasy period of the pandemic lockdowns. Taylor has talked about how the fantasy cabin sparked her imagination and set off this creative streak that hasn’t really stopped since. I almost wonder if “floors of a cabin creaking under my step” leading into “And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for evermore,” can also be seen as, using this creative outlet (her music/the cabin) to process these feelings, and particularly in that point in time, to ground her and bring her back to herself. The creaking floors being the reminder that she will be whole once again, the metaphorical creaking in her mind being the spark of ideas leading to her most introspective work. “It was real enough to get me through,” like getting lost in these fantasies was enough to get through the worst patch, and in the end, it’s what ended up bringing her back to life (metaphorically of course).
I don’t necessarily think that was what the song set out to be, but given the narrative around the cabin in her mind etc., I just think it’s a neat coincidence at the very least that when she was feeling unmoored and “on waves out being tossed,” the metaphorical floors under her reminded her (and by her, I mean whoever the narrator was or will be) that the ground will be steady again under her, because it always will be when she goes back to doing what she loves.
Anyway. I love this song, why do you ask?
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it is wednesday and i am very tired, but i met all my goals for today! \o/ knock on wood for me because tomorrow i have to cut and animate a bunch of 2D rigs
i’m not gonna be on much for the next week or two because tears of the kingdom comes out in like 2 days i have a prior engagement, but I’ve been drawing nothing but fish all month between work and doctor stuff
AND IT IS GLORIOUS
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Music Shill of the Day: Bloodmoon by Kamelot
NEW KAMELOT NEW KAMELOT NEW-
Ok I'll stop. BUT THE NEW ALBUM IS HERE! And I'll post all of my totally Big Brained review of it later on today. Maybe. Probably. We'll see.
TL;DR FOR IT: IT KICKS ASS. I LOVE IT.
Anyway, lemme talk about Bloodmoon because out of the new songs (aka those not released beforehand) I think this is my favorite. By a very small margin but the margin exists.
The margin is this; Bloodmoon has a leitmotif of Moonlight in it. It took me a minute to find out where the hell I had heard that riff from but I found it and I've been losing my mind over it. I love Moonlight, it's one of my favorite Kamelot songs, and to see a callback? In an album that is from 2023? That kicks ass and I am endlessly happy.
Also the way this song opens punched me right in the throat after the calm ballad that was Midsummer's Eve is SO GOOD. I love this song to death. It's epically symphonic, the lyrics are beautifully tragic, it's got great riffs and I am just.
I wish I could better describe how much this song and how much this album kills it. It's so good. Listen to it if you have the chance, IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT I CAN ASSURE YOU.
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EXCELLENT soft kpop
(that’s not sad!!!)
inspired by recent success of New Jeans’ Ditto
One Afternoon by SNSD
Sweet and Easy by Wonder Girls
Somebody to Love by fromis_9
Tuesday is better than Monday by GIANT PINK
Loveable by JO YURI
Pandora’s Box by NCT 127
Sour Grapes by LE SSERAFIM
IDK (I DON’T KNOW) by EXID
Anywhere But Home by Seulgi
Bad Boy, Sad Girl by Seulgi
LP by Red Velvet
Luv Me x3 by APRIL
Payday by woo!ah!
dlwrma by IU
Children by BVNDIT
unlucky by IU
Who comes who knows by OH MY GIRL
Escape Room by fromis_9
Hush Hush by fromis_9
Weekend by Taeyeon
STEREOTYPE by STAYC
Good, Bad, Ugly by Red Velvet
Closer by SNSD
and of course
Ditto by New Jeans
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New Video: Ghost Funk Orchestra Share Trippy and Cinematic "Scatter"
New Video: Ghost Funk Orchestra Share Trippy and Cinematic "Scatter"
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Founded and led by multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer Seth Applebuam, rising New York-based psych rock/psych soul outfit Ghost Funk Orchestra initially began as a lo-fi, solo recording project back in 2014 with a unique sound featuring tape-saturated drums, spring reverb, surf rock guitar, Latin-styled percussion, odd time signatures and Spanish language female vocals. Since…
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My teeth are sharp and my eye shines like a crescent moon
Half blind with lust and madness and rage
Calmed only by the aoft song of the wind
And its cold, clawing caress
I'm warning you
The warmth of my blood is churned by the beating of my rabid heart
Consumed with desire
To become, to cease, to connect and to devour
Especially to devour
The steam of my breath is hot with lies
And my gaze is rich with envy
Surely, youll see my unreliability
If you can ever catch a glimpse of me as I tear across the horizon
Think not of me
For this hole i excavate with my claws
Is designed for disguising my disgusting flesh
The putrid fur which hangs limp from my bloated body
Erasing my very presence from this vivacious existance
Except when the hunger drives me outside
If you see me I will be a shrieking spectacle
Roaring to the stars in unintelligible fashion
Bolting across 6 lanes of traffic
Into the dense , shadowy treeline
i will leave a hideous trace
Broken belongings, looted, raided, worthless artifacts and daily necessities plundered ruthlessly
Ive left you a mess of crumbs and rotting meat to enjoy
I am unwilling to clean up my mess
Already 2 carcasses ahead, 4 states away
You deal with it
I almost remember what it was to be human
To laugh, relaxed and grateful to share a moment with another beating heart
Lighthearted and airy, to regale about nothing
My spirit breaks with the weight of expectation
My voice is quiet and stifled, my eyes full of fear when I am adressed
I know I've done it wrong
Please don't tell me how
Just leave me in my silence
A personal limbo
I now stand, dazed by unfamiliar lights
The friendly smiles are indescernable from grimaces
To my crescent moon eyes
I am alone, save for one
Every drop of grace is hungrily lapped from the saucer
Before i once again disappear
Dont talk to me
But my need is so deep
I can't go on without anyone
The beating hearts of others are what warms the hearth of our souls
the blood on the knife paints a cryptograph
The enigma states
TRUST NO ONE
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