Am I the only person here who's noticed the obvious contradiction in a guy singing 'mascara bleeds into my eye'? Alex Kapranos is indie, but not that indie. I don't know the song very well - I only just listened to it for the first time - but the first thing that struck me when the song got to that line was that the entire song up to that point makes the listener think it's the boy singing to the girl (since, you know, it's a guy's voice singing it); but that line suddenly turns the perspective around and makes you realise that all this time, it's been the girl talking to the boy and that Alex is simply telling the story from her point of view.
Make sense? No? That's fine, I don't know the song at all and I can't be arsed to analyse the lyrics in depth right now.
@henre on the contrary! Have you seen the music video for This Fire? And a bunch of the photos from that era? All four of them (Bob less so) wore at least eyeliner A LOT in the mid 2000s lmao so whilst it could be the girl’s perspective there, it’s still completely likely that it’s Alex’s perspective!
@henre on the contrary! Have you seen the music video for This Fire? And a bunch of the photos from that era? All four of them (Bob less so) wore at least eyeliner A LOT in the mid 2000s lmao so whilst it could be the girl’s perspective there, it’s still completely likely that it’s Alex’s perspective!
Am I the only person here who's noticed the obvious contradiction in a guy singing 'mascara bleeds into my eye'? Alex Kapranos is indie, but not that indie. I don't know the song very well - I only just listened to it for the first time - but the first thing that struck me when the song got to that line was that the entire song up to that point makes the listener think it's the boy singing to the girl (since, you know, it's a guy's voice singing it); but that line suddenly turns the perspective around and makes you realise that all this time, it's been the girl talking to the boy and that Alex is simply telling the story from her point of view.
Make sense? No? That's fine, I don't know the song at all and I can't be arsed to analyse the lyrics in depth right now.
@henre on the contrary! Have you seen the music video for This Fire? And a bunch of the photos from that era? All four of them (Bob less so) wore at least eyeliner A LOT in the mid 2000s lmao so whilst it could be the girl’s perspective there, it’s still completely likely that it’s Alex’s perspective!
@henre on the contrary! Have you seen the music video for This Fire? And a bunch of the photos from that era? All four of them (Bob less so) wore at least eyeliner A LOT in the mid 2000s lmao so whilst it could be the girl’s perspective there, it’s still completely likely that it’s Alex’s perspective!