| Marina and the Diamonds – Buy the Stars Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Light metaphorically symbolizes success via fame and the motivation for which, subsequently thereby inspiring happiness. Dark metaphorically symbolizes anonymity potentially through laziness, and the state of unhappiness she imagines this would inflict for others since it does for her. This song is about the artist's perception of someone she views as seeking, albeit successfully, to love famous women, including herself, and by her estimation she also views them as intending to live vicariously through the fame of said women. This song is about her grievances with him potentially having that intention. The person she's singing about to her understanding has full means to successfully attract and date famous women via material means, to buy them, and she attributes his reason for doing this to his life being "dark": anonymous, unmotivated for fame, thereby unhappy. She's telling him that people only really are capable of retaining their misery, and that she's a living example of this; that she's been miserable intermittently throughout her life in pursuit of the adulation of fame (read: worship, "being holy.") She's telling him fame occurs on a case by case basis and that he isn't famous (synonymous in her mind to successful and happy) because he's killing his 'light' (motivation) with bad habits, aka his man-made dark (in this case, computer usage.) She thinks he has done this to such an extent and that the instinct for such actions come so naturally to him that it's a habit unlikely to change (just who he is.) But not everyone has the same motivations and definition of happiness as she does. There's also the possibility that her lifelong experiences which drove her to fame to start with as a means of happiness and validation have counterbalance existing in her knack for recognizing and identifying with melancholy, the feelings of which being so intense in her life as to drive her to do what most people wouldn't, actively seek fame by any means necessary. That aptitude for feeling melancholy could very well be a filter distorting her worldview thus through the cognitive distortion of mind reading, inspired her to attempt to respond to, through the creation of this song, her perception of his intentions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion I'm sure his potential is and will be his retribution. It's just a snippet in time and time will tell, but most of all what the song really means is what it makes you feel and how it relates to your life. That's what counts. |
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