I've never played Life is Strange but if this game is on the soundtrack I can safely assume the song came before the game and so the game doesn't really inform my reading of the song.
The lyrics, tone of the music and the album it came from do.
"Other People's Problems" is about exploring the complexity of modern life, mental health, and socio-political issues. This is made explicit by the repeated reference to ancronyms, which are clearly references to psychiatric disorders. The interpretations here are clearly caught up on the drug use implications of 'whatever you use', but people with disorders use all kinds of maladaptive behaviours to cope.
This song is dressing someone down for not being "on earth", ignoring their problems and indulging in their rehearsed egocentrism.
They talk about rejecting someone from an 'in group', making nautical references to throwing them overboard. This is a community or group who is sick of someone making their mental problems everyone elses'.
I've never played Life is Strange but if this game is on the soundtrack I can safely assume the song came before the game and so the game doesn't really inform my reading of the song. The lyrics, tone of the music and the album it came from do. "Other People's Problems" is about exploring the complexity of modern life, mental health, and socio-political issues. This is made explicit by the repeated reference to ancronyms, which are clearly references to psychiatric disorders. The interpretations here are clearly caught up on the drug use implications of 'whatever you use', but people with disorders use all kinds of maladaptive behaviours to cope. This song is dressing someone down for not being "on earth", ignoring their problems and indulging in their rehearsed egocentrism. They talk about rejecting someone from an 'in group', making nautical references to throwing them overboard. This is a community or group who is sick of someone making their mental problems everyone elses'.