warnings: as noted in beginning of each chapter! read them carefully.
Synopsis: after being ghosted one too many times, you start to think that maybe love and relationships just aren’t in the cards for you. that is, until things begin to change between you and your best friend.
EASY by Shawn Mendes, an unreleased song that connects lyrically to 10 songs by Niall Horan ⭐️
Firstly, here’s a YouTube link to the song. https://youtu.be/2r1ErXM3Qkc
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Especially “The Show” (the nervous response song) + “Must Be Love” (recognizing, working toward an end goal following your heart instead of overthinking)
:::A THREAD:::
“Easy” by Shawn Mendes connects to “If You Leave Me” and “Cross Your Mind” through its imagery of diving into oceans, the hesitation (“you don’t”) by the same person diving into oceans, discussions of “your mind”, and then deciding if “it’s Easy.”
“If everything was easy” = “The Show”
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A specialist in overthinking, who’s got a PhD in running away, who’s scared to death, and likes to vanish…
Maybe he should stop, and take it easy, don’t overthink it, listen to his heart’s desire?
Parallels exist between “Easy” by Shawn Mendes and “Must Be Love” 💗by Niall Horan
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“Easy” by Shawn Mendes connects to three Niall songs that describe “close my eyes” to see our relationship - “Black and White”, “Too Much to Ask”, “Put a Little Love on Me”.
It also has a parallel to “You and Me”, “you and I know where it’s going” relates back to “it ends with you and me”
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“Easy” by Shawn touches on the 🌹 reference (“grow out of control” rose promo pic for Heaven release)
“Easy” asks “why would you run?” 🏃♂️
Niall describes himself as a runner in 3 songs: “my heart was always on the run”, “we were on the run”, and “I got a PhD in always running away”
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Niall’s description of running is always in contrast to loving
“On the run, but you making loving fun”
“Yesterday we were on the run, why’s it only YOU I’m thinking of?”
“I got a PhD in always running away, I’m trying to stop it but it feels like LOVE”
> Run? Drive forever with me?
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“The Show” by Niall Horan is the song that most connects to “Easy” by Shawn Mendes, especially adding in “305” and its rollercoaster ride🎢☀️
They look at the sun, catch you when gravity comes 🪂, decide if they’re ready (one’s never been so sure vs other says not ready)
Is it EASY??
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Easy by SM parallels with:
If You Leave Me 🌊
Cross Your Mind 🌊
Too Much to Ask 👁️🏃♂️
PALLOM 👁️
Black and White 👁️
Seeing Blind 🏃♂️
Must Be Love (🏃♂️, scared, overthinking)
The Show (looking at ☀️, easy)
You and Me ➡️
Heaven 🌹
Key:
Close my 👁️s
Dive into 🌊
On the run🏃♂️
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Another connection
“Looking at the stars”, “how to get there or is it just too far”? “you’re right here beside me” of Finally Free by Niall Horan
Matches with “Easy” by Shawn Mendes:
“Why would you run when you could drive forever with me toward the Sun?”
"Do I cross your mind like you cross mine?? Seven days a week with moon and sunshine? Do you see me in the stars? Can you feel me in your heart? If you answered a yes to any one of those, then I will pull you so close.."
I pull you closer and closer to my chest cause darling, you are blessed - eUë
Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)
*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.
This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.
Do you still wear that sweater that you said I could keep?
Do you still like to keep all of your shopping receipts?
Like to talk to somebody when you’re falling asleep?
Do you still think of me?