Supercut, the only song ever
Melodrama as an album is bare chested and open faced. The song Supercut serves as a thesis statement for the album. It's hypnotic and dizzying, the haunting echoes, the arrangement of the snares and the tongue pops, the song is glamorous and traitorous in equal measure. Even though the song has a cinematic polish, Lorde's vocals really bring the uneasiness of a lost summer to life. The bridge is mutated to sound refractive, as if played from a speaker that has survived a nuclear explosion. The chorus is deceptively addictive and the drums are crisp. The lyrics are not sweet, they're not sad, there's something genuinely young and scary and difficult happening in them. There are things it wants to say and things that it can't say and some of those things are the same and that's something that haunts the listseners.
It's hard to grow up, it's hard to be a teenager on the cusp of realizing that summer is over, this is the last time that things feel safe. This is why I love melodrama, it makes the most personal experiences feel universal.
Supercut as a song is a literary enshrinement of the concept of nostalgia.Nostalgia is the heart's way of reminding you of something you once loved and no matter in what form it comes back to you it always leaves a bittersweet taste.
Amidst all the declarations of love, the song gives us a stark warning of the danger that comes with dwelling in this land of fantasy for too long, a harsh reminder to embrace our real life with all its flaws instead of reflecting back on your life and only wanting to replay that one film reel of the moments you spent with the person you no longer share that deep bond with. The conversation with that one person felt so absorbing so easy that the rest of the world just disappeared into the background. The flow of time never felt linear, seconds and hours became interchangeable. But deep down at some subconscious level you knew that this effortless kinship was not meant to last.
The protagonist of this song finds herself going back to the time she spent with this person over and over because of her love for narratives. There's times when our own stories pull is into depths of misery, her film reel traps her in patterns of behavior that draw her deeper into despair, she makes empty promises with herself thinking that surely, the narrative will be reclaimed by her again, even when we all know by listening to the desperate wailing in the song that the best option for her is to pack her bags and pick up another quest that gives her a narrative to romanticize. Reminiscing over their time together is the only thing that continues to give her life a semblance of meaning.
The bittersweet aftertaste of the song reminds me of the closing line of Dostoevsky's white nights "my god, a whole moment of happiness, is that too little for a whole of man's life?" This small drop of romantic or platonic relationship is the sole moment around which her life revolves.
In my head I do everything right
When you call I forgive and not fight
Because ours are the moments I play in the dark
Wild and fluorescent come home to my heart
These lyrics cement how in a relationship you will feel like you are experiencing a physical and emotional contradiction. There is disappointment next to admiration and anger alongside love. Wanting to make things right but knowing there's no way you can undo the fallouts. When you can't let yourself see that person from the perfect angle but only from over the shoulder because every full glance reminds you of all the ways it could've gone right, all the ways you could've been someone they might have loved. But still knowing that having that psychopathic mutual admiration last only for a day is better than to have never experienced it at all.
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i’ve been listening to blue neighbourhood because of the poll doing the rounds lately and i may be delusional but it’s very macdennis-coded. ease is dennis at penn and heaven is mac coming to terms with his sexuality and religious trauma. oh and youth!!! losing my mind thinking of the moments they shared at parties when they were in hs or when mac visited den at college. and you don’t have to say i love you to say i love you!!!
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listening to supercut (2017) on loop to remind myself that nostalgia distorts the brain, that there's a reason why i fell out with someone and why we have each other blocked, but those reasons won't show up in the supercut of us as the good moments are wild and fluorescent in comparison
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i dont think you understand that IN HER HEAD SHE DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT! When he called, SHE FORGAVE AND DIDN'T FIGHT. She replays all of those moments IN THE DARK! WILD! AND! FLOURESCENT! CAME HOME TO HER HEART!
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thank you @livelaughlovefootball for tagging me, i love these!! <3
i tag @storisdreamworld @l8tof1 @leclerking @redbullhateblog @lemontea1781 @hell-is-betterplace
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We were wild and fluorescent come home to my heart is such a literati line
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thinkin ab 2011 au johnny/vic. thinkin ab how their relationship falls apart before it gets better. thinkin ab skinny love - bon iver on vic's playlist in this context and i want to just wither away
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Why wasn't the workshop version of if it's true recorded
It is the superior version and without it, my supercut is incomplete
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