The song 'Fortnight' by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word 'fortnight' shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
Have you heard the latest (You love you)
Have you seen who just walked in (Vain vain vain vain)
(Uh huh You love you) Right over there
She's so vain vain vain vain
Vain vain vain vain
I'm glad you found some one who loves you
But sad to say that some one is you
And now perhaps you'll both be happy
Guess that makes two just you and you
Someone who cares so much about you
But does that some one have to be you
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills it kills
Do glad I found you glancing in the mirror
Gazing deeply at love's patron saint
Admire the frame survey the scenery
Or are you just inspecting the paint
Temptation's high modesty's so weak
High on yourself humble you ain't
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills (No way)
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills it kills
So vain vain vain vain
You love you (yeah)
Give it give it us give it us
So Vain so vain so vain
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills if the blast don't get you
Then the fallout will
You love you
Have you seen who just walked in (Vain vain vain vain)
(Uh huh You love you) Right over there
She's so vain vain vain vain
Vain vain vain vain
I'm glad you found some one who loves you
But sad to say that some one is you
And now perhaps you'll both be happy
Guess that makes two just you and you
Someone who cares so much about you
But does that some one have to be you
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills it kills
Do glad I found you glancing in the mirror
Gazing deeply at love's patron saint
Admire the frame survey the scenery
Or are you just inspecting the paint
Temptation's high modesty's so weak
High on yourself humble you ain't
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills (No way)
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills it kills
So vain vain vain vain
You love you (yeah)
Give it give it us give it us
So Vain so vain so vain
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills it don't pay bills
Vanity kills you love you
Vanity kills if the blast don't get you
Then the fallout will
You love you
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
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How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.