hey hey hey! thoughts on outdoor pool? āŗ
hiiiii sorry I know you sent this forever ago but here ya go!
ā I love this song!!! great lyrics great imagery I feel like I go to this high school every time I hear it
ā she does a lot of little things to show how young they are and here are some of my favorites: listing how far apart they sit because you know how significant it is to her and I can just picture her leaning around whoever is in between them thinking sheās being subtle
ā also āsaw you in the supermarket with your mom I was with mine too, she could tell I was so obsessed with youā š„“ we ALL lived this and donāt tell me we didnāt!!! also this line/the whole song reminds me of normal people which is truly irrelevant but I had to say it. itās just such a relatable phenomenon to think of this as SUCH a defining moment and I just know she texted her group chat of girls like GUESS WHO I JUST SAW!!!! HE WAVED AT ME
ā āyouāre asking if I want to come out / itās a Wednesday night, I just took off my makeup / hope my dad donāt wake upā love that for a split second in the second line she implies that she canāt go or it would be a hassle then immediately is like no I have to go Iām sneaking out I have to see him
ā again irrelevant but the first several times I was like when she says skins does she mean like. theyāre both topless??? and why does that relate to her eyes??? but I now understand itās a British show about high schoolers :)
ā āwe went swimmingā vs āI donāt swimā to me implies she pretty much stands there in the pool just staring at him š„ŗ
ā i genuinely freaking hate this nonexistent man for kissing Maisie on Wednesday then the French exchange student on Monday. literally what is wrong with him...but the contrast between her smiling vs her hearing the gossip and everything changing in a split second is just so sad...and since he didnāt tell anyone at school she just has to grin and bear it.
ā āis she gonna be your girlfriend? guess I misunderstoodā is just so sad and so fundamentally 15. like am i going to have to see you guys in the hallway holding hands and smiling? or did you kissing her mean nothing, which is just as bad because it means kissing me meant nothing too?
ā āhope my dad donāt wake upā in the first verse because sheās scared sheāll get in trouble for sneaking out and in the second verse because sheās afraid sheāll have to explain everything and sometimes when youāre really hurt, well meaning sympathy from someone who loves you just hurts more
ā I also love that after a single kiss she daydreamed a whole future with them hanging out over the summer and wearing a couples costume together for Halloween
ā at the end she says ānothing changed at all when you kissed meā and this is the fundamental point of the song. when she went through 8000 different emotions and feels like a whole different girl how is it possible that her life is logically the same? and the answer comes in my favorite lyric in the song: āI was fifteen, now Iām fifteen and a foolā. the milestones that change us donāt come neatly at birthdays and New Years and this one for her was on a random Wednesday but she just feels so fundamentally changed!!!
ā and the most important part of the song to me is the total lack of anger. we have pining and hope and love and frustration with herself and heartbreak but we have absolutely no anger. this makes it different from most of the other songs on the album where the other person is objectively in the wrong: when someone treats her badly, she wants to burn down their house and drown them in a river and scream at them on the train. but here, sheās upset with herself and just...sad. to me, this is what makes the age sheās playing as most believable: when my friends get heartbroken now (as someone who is Maisieās age), theyāre able to acknowledge that someone else did them wrong, but as a high schooler, we all did absolutely everything possible to shove the blame onto us.