#finco rambles

The fact that some of the most successful versions of these formats have been episodes where the two guests just volley genuine appreciation for each other’s craft. In a way where you can tell they HAVE been great fans of each other's works and ARE genuinely curious as colleagues and contemporaries. Like they've held pieces of each other's works for so long and now get the time and platform to truly just get into it.

Honestly, this song is SUCH a sleeper hit.

Okay personal opinion time: This song wasn't even in my top 5 when I first had a run-through of the entire album. Cuz against some of the other songs, lyrically it doesn't hit as visually for me. Sonically it's safe, nostalgic in its sound, and having Robert Smith in a track after a song titled "The Cure" is cheeky at best.

But there's something here that you keep coming back to. You hear it a couple of times, and then the sheer yearning builds and builds on itself per listen. The two voices answer so well to each other through the duet. It's old school in its romance, takes you back to a 90s romcom through well-loved yearning montages. And now I can't listen to this song without getting lost in how in love these two sound (separately ofc lol) and how it calls to me to be this in love as well.

Like the one of the very few times (grateful for the canon-divergence) my heart shook at just how much loss and grief they wrapped her in, and her to STILL be good.

Not kind. Not happy. Not naive. Jaded by her trauma and still be good.

Would they have matching symptoms? Would one go through the disability and be on medication for it while the other is experiencing said symptoms in a healthy body NOT be able to be on medication for it? Would one be ridden with guilt, anger, and pain for putting the other through the illness? Would the flare-ups act as a homing beacon between the sets? Would one be caught in the lie of holding it together during a flare-up only because the other experiences the flare-ups too? Would there be resentment there at being so hyperexposed? Would it be a test in humility and vulnerability?