I just recently rediscovered this track, an easy one to overlook, but musically a well-crafted and catchy pop song. The lyrics explore some of the same ideas as "Turn It On Again" -- obsession with a fictional character or fantasy-version of a celebrity -- from a more objective point of view. It's almost as if the "Albert" character from TIOG is trying to break out of his delusion -- perhaps he's undergone some therapy -- and is attempting to rationalize the obsession, while clearly still incapable of turning it off completely ("Do you think this aching could be love?" and the final lyric "I think it's love").
I just recently rediscovered this track, an easy one to overlook, but musically a well-crafted and catchy pop song. The lyrics explore some of the same ideas as "Turn It On Again" -- obsession with a fictional character or fantasy-version of a celebrity -- from a more objective point of view. It's almost as if the "Albert" character from TIOG is trying to break out of his delusion -- perhaps he's undergone some therapy -- and is attempting to rationalize the obsession, while clearly still incapable of turning it off completely ("Do you think this aching could be love?" and the final lyric "I think it's love").