i listened to olivia rodrigo's new song and there is a parallel to vampire in the cure that really intrigued me a lot. the way she sings "i got toxins in my blood stream, you tried hard to suck them out" vs the way she sings "blood sucker" really shows to me how her perception of hurt in romance and relationship changed: during vampire and guts she wrote her hurt coming from people breaking her heart, bitter with resentment and lit up by anger. someone loving her (sucking her blood out) was doing it with selfish and possibly cruel intentions, therefore it hurt. now, in gsil and the cure, she writes her hurt stemming from her blood itself. someone loving her (sucking her blood out) is doing it with kind intentions, but it still hurts. with that, she really shows how no matter how good or bad someone is to you, you simply hurt when you hurt. maybe i'm over-interpreting this, but i really like thinking of it like that
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doesn't "slide in, baby" sound a little homoerotic?
absolutely. there are several lines in noel’s lyrics that gesture towards a sexuality or a romantic dynamic that doesn’t feel remotely heteronormative.
here are four examples:
slide in, baby - slide away
the first and most obvious example is the one you mentioned. the entire song reads like a veiled reference to a sexual encounter, with a gradual build-up of intensity that mirrors an almost orgasmic climax. that sense of escalation becomes even stronger in the live performances, where “i don’t know, i don’t care, all i know is you can take me there” and “slide away” are delivered with increasing urgency by both of them, culminating in that shared, almost cathartic “what for”.
noel has never been particularly explicit in his lyricism, but if we accept slide away as a sensual song, then the line “slide in” inevitably stands out. it very clearly evokes a penetrative act, and interestingly positions the speaker (noel) in a more receptive role towards the person he’s addressing. more broadly, the whole song carries undertones of sexual passivity (“hold me down”, “you've knocked me off my feet”).
what makes it more intriguing is the way both liam and noel have historically presented it as a love song, and yet continue to dedicate it to each other. when liam sings “i wonder where you are now” on the reunion tour and gestures towards noel, implicitly acknowledging his presence beside him, it adds a layer that feels… loaded. framing such an intensely romantic, sexual song within the context of their relationship inevitably raises questions. it’s telling that even more casual listeners have begun to pick up on it and discuss it in places like reddit.
how does it feel when you’re inside me? - up in the sky
this track is far more elusive in meaning than slide away. ostensibly, it reads as a commentary on musicians who overestimate their own depth, artists who elevate themselves beyond the music, when in reality the music should be the only thing that truly matters. the line “when you’re inside me” could be read as an invitation to those people who try to get inside the lyricist’s mind, to decode him, to intellectualise him, while he positions himself as a generational voice without resorting to grandiose rhetoric or inflated ideals. however, even if the song lacks overtly sexual connotations, it’s still interesting to notice how that same “penetrative” symbolism reappears, imagery we’ve already encountered in slide away, on the very same album. whether intentional or not, the recurrence of that motif creates an intriguing pattern.
wont you take me? won’t you take me to the edge of night and make me? - angel child
i love the wordplay here. in this demo, noel starts a sentence, cuts it off, and then completes it in the following line. in the opening verse, it almost sounds as though he’s inviting the other person to “take him” – which carries an obvious sexual undertone – only to soften or redirect the meaning in the next line. and yet that line, too, ends provocatively with “make me”, another phrase loaded with sexual connotations before it’s once again tempered by what follows.
both “take me” and “make me” evoke actions that position the lyricist in a more passive role. that’s what makes it interesting: the language subtly suggests receptiveness rather than dominance, which clashes with heteronormative expectations that frame the man as the one who acts rather than the one who is acted upon.
lift me up and take me where i stand. […] heaven help you catch me if i fall. - lyla
once again, the male narrator positions himself in a way that subtly destabilises heteronormative expectations. he asks lyla to “lift him up”, to hold him, to catch him when he falls. these are gestures that imply physical strength, protection, even rescue, qualities not typically coded as feminine within conventional frameworks. unless, of course, the person the song is addressed to isn’t a woman at all.
the name “lyla” is phonetically striking in how close it sounds to “liam”, and the personality described in the song feels far more aligned with the band’s frontman than with a generic female muse. she “believes in everything”, she’s depicted as exuberant, almost overwhelming, someone capable of shaking the world and unsettling the songwriter himself.
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as i’ve said before, taken together these lines seem to point towards a relationship that resists a straightforward heteronormative reading. the songwriter, a man, repeatedly places himself in a position of romantic and even sexual passivity, while the other person occupies the active, almost “masculinised” role.
there are two possible readings. either noel is deliberately subverting traditional expectations of heterosexual dynamics by embracing male vulnerability and receptiveness, or the songs are, more simply, addressed to a man.
personally, i lean towards the latter. not because noel lacks the intelligence for subtle social commentary, but because he has never really struck me as someone interested in making grand, coded statements of that kind, especially on such nuanced terrain. and, perhaps more significantly, the references that seem to point back to liam are simply too numerous to ignore.
but that’s just my take, i’d genuinely love to know how others interpret it. <3
i fear a lot of people are missing the point of laufey’s madwoman music video and it’s all because a pretty man is in it 😭 trust me, i get it. i’m a lesbian and even i think that hudson williams is the most gorgeous man i’ve ever seen! but all i’ve been seeing since the video has come out is people posting about how beautiful hudson is and how they couldn’t even pay attention because of him. guys. you are almost ironically proving the point of the song. let’s take a look at the second verse of the song. the lyrics go as, “I remind myself how he’d question everything ‘bout me/Call me stupid as a mindless joke, he hypnotized me as we spoke/Purely mythological, with the ugliest soul/You would think that he is holding me for ransom” she’s pretty much telling us as the listener that this guy is mean and not very caring and because of his terrible personality, people should be wondering how he even pulled her. then we get the next lyric as it goes into the chorus, “But there’s something so vexing ‘bout you” despite his douchebag attitude and being rude, she still thinks that there’s something there and it’s only because he’s hot! the thing that is vexing about him is his attractiveness. the song is about being stuck in a toxic relationship, which is also shown near the end of the music video when laufey tries leaving hudson behind, only to find that the road has broken completely off into a cliff and she can’t go any further. she’s stuck going back to the house and saying yes to his proposal, and her friends are even encouraging it, probably because they don’t actually know how much of an asshole he is, because they think he’s hot, which is shown specifically through lola tung’s character as we see her hide behind her magazine as hudson comes out of the water before sneaking a glimpse at the beginning of the video. this also ties into the title of the song. laufey feels like a ‘madwoman’ as the song progresses but i think she already feels like it in the beginning of the song, too. she may feel like a madwoman in the beginning because she lowkey hates the guy she’s dating but he’s hot so she decides it’s okay. then, when he proposes, she feels even more insane because why would he even do that? they have no chemistry and she gets turned off at every mean thing he says. then she returns to the house after driving away and we can see the descent into madness as her friends robotically usher her back into the house. the final shot, with hudson’s back turned towards us and laufey’s almost dejected silhouette in the doorway, makes it feel as if she’s upset that it came back to this and she can’t do much of anything to leave hudson. all in all, i guess what i’m trying to say is, four beautiful women have graced your screen and all you’re talking about is the man doing pushups on the diving board? like, why would a man be there?
the pitt characters as ethel cain songs !! (part 1)
(+ analyses of the lyrics & how they relate to the character) ⊹ ࣪ ˖
1. mohan - willoughby’s theme ໒꒱
to me, the theme represents something that is ending, yet is a new beginning of something. It goes from calm to a feeling of overwhelming rebirth, then realization. Everything becomes suffocating until it finally eases out into the slow fade outro of the song.
Like her time in the ER where it is overwhelming and loud (especially in s2), it eventually comes to an end & she realizes that she deserves more and better than this.
2. santos - janie ໒꒱
these lyrics specifically show how santos, despite her not wanting to admit it aloud, wants to be able to rely on someone who will care and wants to trust them. “my girl” refers to her best friend growing up and how she was that person for her before she passed.
3. mel - waco, texas ໒꒱
“i swore i’d be good to you” is her promising to always take care of becca and be there for her, but the more independent becca becomes and starts to build her own life separate from and without mel, she realizes that in reality, she needs her sister more than her sister needs her, hence the “walking away” line.
4. javadi - family tree (intro) ໒꒱
pretty self explanatory. javadi’s family tree with both of her parents being doctors and raising her with high expectations (especially her mother) and how she feels she cannot make a single mistake without feeling shame and guilt for doing so, knowing her mother would say “i raised you better than this” and feeling as if she failed completely as a doctor and daughter.
5. whitaker - dust bowl ໒꒱
tbh A LOT of ethel songs suit him, but dust bowl especially. all of the “pretty boy” lyrics fit, especially “blood stained blonde” and “consumed by death”. his eagerness to please others and be good enough is represented by these lyrics, where even the smallest mistakes consume him completely.
I feel like we should all be talking more about the juxtaposition in “I’m gonna die all alone next to you” from Head in the Wall by Ethel Cain - it emotionally wrecks me every time I hear it - the absolute artistry oml
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Open the door see what you find (2023), Lock All The Doors (1992), Stand By Me (1991), Roll with it (1995), One of us (2019), Diamond in the dark (2022)
So this has been in my mind ever since I listened to the song for the first time, but I had a lovely conversation with @bells25 and so that made me want to post this analysis properly.
"There She Blows!" is a song that was published in the final NGHFB album, Council Skies, as the eight song of the album. It was published in 2023, with the rest of the album. Let's start with the analysis.
I'm going to tell you this beforehand, since it's going to make the analysis easier to understand. The song establishes four characters in total: An "I" (The singer, Noel, the one who tells the story), a "you" (The person that the song is talking to, Sara), The Commander (Who's meant to represent Liam) and The Ship. Yes, the ship is a character in this story and it represents either Oasis or the relationship between Noel and Liam, although considering how much the band and their bond are connected, this can be seen as interchangeable. We're going to find out exactly how these characters appear as the analysis keeps going, don't worry.
"The liberty ship disappeared
A long long time ago
Searching the seven seas for love"
The song starts by establishing the first character in this story, a ship, specifically a liberty ship. This was a cargo ship built by the USA during WW2, a war that we know Noel is a big fan of, so the reference isn't out of place. Although this can also be read as the ship being called Liberty. Noel already has established motifs and ideas to represent his relationship with Liam in his songwriting, that being the sea and freedom, among others, so this song is another example of that.
The song also tells us this character is a doomed/tragic one, one that disappeared a long time ago on a mission: To search for love around the world. This is a detail you'll have to remember because I'll mention it again the end of the song.
"The finest commander
That the world had ever known
He died of a broken heart
'Cause I told him that I loved you more
I told him that I loved you more
I loved you more than love"
Here the second, third and fourth characters appear. The Commander, who's characterised has the best one in the world, but died of a broken heart; The Narrator, who uses the pronoun "I" and who the singer represents, The Commander was in love with him but he loved someone else; and The Listener, who is represented by the "you" pronoun, who The Narrator loved more than The Commander.
The Commander represents Liam, obviously. They're both characterised by being the finest in their respective jobs, as leaders, comparing Liam's job as the frontman and main singer with that of a commander of a ship. Liam being The Commander also makes me think that The Ship represents something as well, in this case, the bond between him and Noel, the singer. Him dying because of a broken heart, while searching for love, simply emphasises The Ship being a doomed character, as mentioned in the beginning.
The Narrator represents Noel, which makes sense since he's the one singing and writing the song. It's a story told from his point of view. In real life, as we may know, it's believed that the reason why Noel ended his relationship with Liam after leaving Oasis was to be with Sara, his second (ex)wife. There were more complicated reasons in play but for simplicity, we'll stick to this. The Commander (Liam) was in love with him, just like in real life, but he told him that he loved The Listener more.
The Listener represents Sara, which makes sense considering Noel is The Narrator and Liam The Commander. Again, in real life, this was how it played out. Noel says in the song that he loved her more than love, which was already established as the mission The Ship had, one that they failed because of this.
"There she blows
Steady baby as she goes
Where we're going, no one knows
Don't get left behind"
Now, I'm going to say this: The "she" here actually refers to The Ship. That's right. Remember that ships used to be referred with female pronouns; she's the one who blows, as in, sails away, steady. It can't refer to either The Narrator or The Listener because of grammatical rules, and it can't be The Commander either because he uses male pronouns. So this leaves us with The Ship as the only answer.
The Ship, despite failing her mission, is moving forward, with The Narrator and other people (Perhaps The Commander) on board. And he's telling The Listener to not get left behind.
Let's remember The Ship represents the bond between Noel and Liam. Noel is telling us that despite their breakup, he and Liam are advancing and don't know exactly where they'll end, but what matters is that they're in contact again. And he's telling Sara to not get left behind, he's moving forward with his brother and warns Sara about it.
"There she waits (She waits)
To meet you at the pearly gates
Hurry up and don't be late
Don't get left behind"
The Ship is waiting at the pearly gates. Let's remember that she's a doomed character, Noel acknowledges that The Ship already failed and so she's waiting at the pearly gates, at Heaven. Now, to me, this is a way of saying that The Ship is at the end of the road, she's the ending of the story. Noel and Liam were on board already, which means they're at the pearly gates too, Noel is willing to die with this relationship and he's telling Sara she'll see it at the end.
He again tells her to hurry up, to not be late and not get left behind. Noel is also willing to leave Sara behind for this relationship, he wants her to accompany him but also he won't wait for her if she doesn't make her choice.
We know that in the end Sara divorces him and Noel comes back to Liam.
"The finest commander
That the world had ever known
He died of a broken heart
Cause I told him that I loved you more
I told him that I loved you more
I love you more than love"
Here there's a change in verb conjugation. Before, Noel talked in past tense, but now he says he currently loves The Listener more than love. To me this means the last phrase is not him citing what he told The Commander, rather, he's telling directly to The Listener this.
(Later the chorus gets repeated with no changes, so I won't write it. I'll go to the next part of the lyrics.)
"Searching the seven seas for love
He died of a broken heart
'Cause he knows I love you more"
The Commander and The Ship had the same mission, as it was established before, and he failed. This time The Commander is the one who knows already that The Narrator loves The Listener more. I think this can also be used to confirm that he's the one currently on board of the ship with The Narrator, Noel and Liam are in contact again despite Liam knowing he prefers Sara over him.
"Told him that I loved you more (x3)
Loved you more than love"
Now, remember that I said I'll mention the detail of The Ship and The Commander's mission being searching for love? I think this can also be read as the bond between him and The Narrator as being love itself. Noel is saying the bond between them was love itself and yet he changed it to be with Sara, because he loved her more than that. He's acknowledging that in this song. The title chosen is "There She Blows!", the ship sailing away, the theme of the song is about how Noel's relationship with Liam was love itself and he abandoned it to be with Sara, but despite that, he decided to have a bond with Liam again and he's willing to move forward with it, wants Sara to be with him but also won't wait for her if she decides to not support him.
I think that's all for this analysis. Thanks for reading!
