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.
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
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”
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
MUCH better than the original version. At least this one lends itself to some imagination. Come on now (no pun intended), a blow job in a car? How downright creative is that! Ya know those blow jobs are hard (no pun intended AGAIN) to come by (mercy me); it is not like women and girls give 'em up easily. The standards for sex are so high these days, and sex is such a sincere form of flattery, not to mention love.
I think I'll stick to more creative songs about sex, and listen to them in the context of more than a quick lay by someone who lays with practically anyone who asks.
So here's to casual sex and it's glowing rewards of someone we don't love getting a mouthful of pen*s. We've come (there it is again) way, Baby. Now pass a cigarette in celebration.
Here's somthing better than a boring song about copulation: What did the potato chip say to the battery? Drum roll......
I'm free to lay if you're ever ready. (Ba bum pa!) Excuse the sound effects; I realize they are not as aspiring as the sound of easy orgasm.
And, yes, I am a sexist. God created man (the male form) to be extremely visual. He created women to be the nurturers, teachers, and keepers of family (which doesn't mean women can't be independent, single, and goal-oriented). It just means that, especially with our bodies capability to be harmed by disease and our emotions influenced by hormones unlike males, we need to be the gate keepers of ourselves and have some self-respect. It takes two to tangle, but it takes one to become pregnant, one to get diseases at much higher rates than males, and one (according to studies) to often want a relationship to come from a one-night stand. Yes, there are deviations to this, but women and men are STILL not the same beasts. And sex as recreation lowers it to the status of dogs humping in the street rather than a show of love between two people emotionally close.