Hearing your unbiased input (as someone, I assume, without the knowledge of the "lore") is so interesting and you bring such an interesting perspective to your reactions! I've watched all of your previous videos and I absolutely adore your attention to detail! The way you immediately picked up on the imagery with just the word "embroidered" is incredible! I wish you and your loved ones a happy new year and I hope we get more videos next year!! Ps: I apologize for any spelling or grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language!
22:06 people often miss the fact that Cracky's band, The 1975, have two music videos done in black and white jn the style of old 20/30s Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin movies...like some Clara Bow would have done... So yeah... The cinephile in black and white with the plot twists and dynamite who kicked out the stage lights, but is still performing, is 100% about Healy.
I didn't pay any attention to the choice of using the word "embroided" but it is indeed an interesting choice. I think overall very few phrases and words stand out to me even though I find lyrics very important. Like, I am aware of them but I don't think about them to this much detail unless they are being pointed out to me. I think cemetery is the memory of the dead relationship. I see it similar to the line in My Tears Ricochet: "We gather here, we line up, weepin' in a sunlit room" and "why are you at the wake?" This is the conclusion I've come to when I've vidded them. I never really thought of the wedding theme but you're right, it's there throughout. I really love the counterfeit line too. It's just so relatable. I'm sure lots of people have had the experience of knowing someone and then realizing they didn't know them that well after all. But maybe my favorite lines are the ones you mentioned as your faves too. It is the most powerful part of the song to me.
Now that I've posted the video I do have EVEN MORE thoughts on these things... I think "Our field of dreams engullfed in fire" also evokes a literal wildfire that you're just an onlooker for, the scope of that amount of destruction evokes a very particular feeling that's different I think, it's like so particular. It's so overwhelming to even process it. And "Embroidery" is commonly also done on wedding dresses. So I think she mentions it maybe because of the wedding motif throughout the song. And the idea of "killing time at the cemetery", to me, I'm pretty sure now I see it as your time being spent thinking about a relationship that in retrospect was a dead thing all along. It never really was alive again, all this new rekindling was a lie. It meant nothing to him so it "was" nothing. So you go to a cemetery with the intention to think about your dead loved one you're visiting, and that's sorta what she's saying is all her thoughts spent on the dreams that they'd have a future together were all energy put towards a dead thing. A nothingness thing. I agree in "My Tears Ricochet", it seems to be about establishing in the opening line the vibe of a funeral. "Sunlit room" feels significant to me about her relationship with Joe, since she compares him and her love for him to "Daylight" a number of times, so maybe since that song is about the destruction of her relationship with her father-figure of Scott Borchetta (CEO of Big Machine Records), she's saying "yes despite the happiness and love I currently have with Joe, I'm still weeping because of another dynamic in my life", like a subtle nod to "this isn't actually a breakup song" that maybe is just fun for her to write it that way. "The Wake" such a great aspect to the song, because the WHOLE song is slowly building around this motif of her "death", she's been buried and killed by him, and now that she's metaphorically dead having left behind the record and lost rights to all her music and him refusing to let her have the rights back, heartbroken over this loss of her "stolen lullabies", now that she's "dead" he's still haunted by her ghost, by all her fame, and all she's doing to re-release her albums and devalue to thing he held onto. She writes in "You're Losing Me" the lines: "Remember lookin' at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light / Now, I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time" and I think it's significant that both are about rooms and whether they are sunlit or not. "You're Losing Me" is a later song than "My Tears Ricochet". "My Tears Ricochet" was written back when she still thought things were good with Joe.
So she said he was a cinefile so a person who is a movie buff then said "coward claims he was a lion" like "the wizard of oz" and "feild of dreams" is another movie so she is playing on that theme. I've heard a lot of people saying this has to be about Joe because how could she be so destroyed over Matty that was a short thing but honestly I've always thought this song was Matty because they had a connection for a decade and I think over that time they would talk and he really built up their connection and I think she really was invested already by the time they got together and then he sold her a huge lie and it left her so messed up after the years with Joe.
Hearing your unbiased input (as someone, I assume, without the knowledge of the "lore") is so interesting and you bring such an interesting perspective to your reactions! I've watched all of your previous videos and I absolutely adore your attention to detail! The way you immediately picked up on the imagery with just the word "embroidered" is incredible! I wish you and your loved ones a happy new year and I hope we get more videos next year!!
Ps: I apologize for any spelling or grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language!
22:06 people often miss the fact that Cracky's band, The 1975, have two music videos done in black and white jn the style of old 20/30s Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin movies...like some Clara Bow would have done...
So yeah... The cinephile in black and white with the plot twists and dynamite who kicked out the stage lights, but is still performing, is 100% about Healy.
I didn't pay any attention to the choice of using the word "embroided" but it is indeed an interesting choice. I think overall very few phrases and words stand out to me even though I find lyrics very important. Like, I am aware of them but I don't think about them to this much detail unless they are being pointed out to me.
I think cemetery is the memory of the dead relationship. I see it similar to the line in My Tears Ricochet: "We gather here, we line up, weepin' in a sunlit room" and "why are you at the wake?" This is the conclusion I've come to when I've vidded them.
I never really thought of the wedding theme but you're right, it's there throughout.
I really love the counterfeit line too. It's just so relatable. I'm sure lots of people have had the experience of knowing someone and then realizing they didn't know them that well after all. But maybe my favorite lines are the ones you mentioned as your faves too. It is the most powerful part of the song to me.
Now that I've posted the video I do have EVEN MORE thoughts on these things... I think "Our field of dreams engullfed in fire" also evokes a literal wildfire that you're just an onlooker for, the scope of that amount of destruction evokes a very particular feeling that's different I think, it's like so particular. It's so overwhelming to even process it.
And "Embroidery" is commonly also done on wedding dresses. So I think she mentions it maybe because of the wedding motif throughout the song.
And the idea of "killing time at the cemetery", to me, I'm pretty sure now I see it as your time being spent thinking about a relationship that in retrospect was a dead thing all along. It never really was alive again, all this new rekindling was a lie. It meant nothing to him so it "was" nothing. So you go to a cemetery with the intention to think about your dead loved one you're visiting, and that's sorta what she's saying is all her thoughts spent on the dreams that they'd have a future together were all energy put towards a dead thing. A nothingness thing.
I agree in "My Tears Ricochet", it seems to be about establishing in the opening line the vibe of a funeral. "Sunlit room" feels significant to me about her relationship with Joe, since she compares him and her love for him to "Daylight" a number of times, so maybe since that song is about the destruction of her relationship with her father-figure of Scott Borchetta (CEO of Big Machine Records), she's saying "yes despite the happiness and love I currently have with Joe, I'm still weeping because of another dynamic in my life", like a subtle nod to "this isn't actually a breakup song" that maybe is just fun for her to write it that way. "The Wake" such a great aspect to the song, because the WHOLE song is slowly building around this motif of her "death", she's been buried and killed by him, and now that she's metaphorically dead having left behind the record and lost rights to all her music and him refusing to let her have the rights back, heartbroken over this loss of her "stolen lullabies", now that she's "dead" he's still haunted by her ghost, by all her fame, and all she's doing to re-release her albums and devalue to thing he held onto.
She writes in "You're Losing Me" the lines: "Remember lookin' at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light / Now, I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time" and I think it's significant that both are about rooms and whether they are sunlit or not. "You're Losing Me" is a later song than "My Tears Ricochet". "My Tears Ricochet" was written back when she still thought things were good with Joe.
So she said he was a cinefile so a person who is a movie buff then said "coward claims he was a lion" like "the wizard of oz" and "feild of dreams" is another movie so she is playing on that theme. I've heard a lot of people saying this has to be about Joe because how could she be so destroyed over Matty that was a short thing but honestly I've always thought this song was Matty because they had a connection for a decade and I think over that time they would talk and he really built up their connection and I think she really was invested already by the time they got together and then he sold her a huge lie and it left her so messed up after the years with Joe.
Yes. This song isn't about Matty because she loved him "the most".
It's about Cracky because he hurt and embarrassed her the worst 😢