"youngblood" by 5sos might be the MOST sebmark album of all time, and so i came with the receipts
first of all: the album COVER??? HELLO?? its so sosososo rbr coded. the colors, the darkness, the cuntiness. also, the entire idea of the album is the concept of not getting over someone which is SO sebmark.
now, the SONGS (buckle up this is LONG)
lets start by the NAME okay? youngblood is SOOOOO them. basically, the whole first verse is insane, honestly
'surrender my everything / 'cause you made me believe you're mine / yeah, you used to call me "baby" / now you're calling me by name / take one to know one / you beat me at my own damn game'
its giving 2010, after seb wins the championship, or 2013, after they spent years as teammates and mark still did not manage to win a title. its giving heartbreak and someone you know and loved leaving you behind.
'you push and I'm pulling away from you' is also mark, done with the whole rbr thing and no matter how much seb tries he's just done.
'say you want me back in your life / so I'm just a dead man crawling tonight' mark after leaving rbr, seb not winning anymore, having the worst time ever and f1 ALWAYS calling mark's name
'lately, our conversations / end like its the last goodbye / then one of us gets too drunk / and calls about a hundred times' 2013 obvi
'nobody could take my place / when you're looking at those strangers / hope to god you see my face' 2014, mark about danny ric
'can't help but wondering if this / is the last time that ill see your face' 2013, mark really leaving f1, but FOR ME this is much more in seb's pov anyway.
because of: 'you tell me I wont ever change / so i just say nothing' to me, this is mark accusing seb of always putting racing first (as he does and will always do) and sebastian simply not seeing the problem with it.
the ENTIRE chorus is seb in 2014/2015 (even after being in ferrari): 'and no matter where I go / im always gonna want you back / no matter how long youre gone / im always gonna want you back / I know you know I will never get over you'
the bridge is just seb missing him terribly and not knowing how to fix it (because he's not about to give up on racing), 'you know, even when i say I moved on / you know, even though I know that you're gone / all I think about is where i went wrong / yeah, I still dream for you'
basically seb seeing mark happy in wec and winning the championship and remembering their time together
'i saw you looking brand new over night / I caught you looking too, but you didn't look twice / you look happy'
'changing flights so you stay with me / the problem was i thought i had this right' thinking of their rbr days, perhaps even EARLY days when they got along just fine.
this is PEAK sebmark together during the rbr days, where mark is just down bad and seb is just insanely happy
'i love the light in your eyes and the dark in your heart / you love our permanent chase and the bark of our bark / we know we're classic together like Egyptian gold / we love us' like COME ON, light in your eyes and dark in your heart is SOOOO seb in 2011 winning everything completely merciless. 'permanent chase and the bark of our bark' is clearly them still fighting even when theyre together. 'classic together like Egyptian gold' is INSANE because obvi seb is rbr's golden boy, and they ARE the og it couple (u cannot change my mind about that). you think rbr today, and u still think seb vettel and mark webber fighting.
'it dont matter, be combative or be sweet cherry pie / it dont matter just as long as I get all you tonight' THEM FIGHTING ON TRACK AND THEN FIGHTING OFF THE TRACK BUT BEING TOGETHER REGARDLESS IDC IDC ITS THEM
'got nothing but love for you, fall more in love every day / valentine / valentine / full plate, don't wait, have your cake and eat it too'
I just feel like this entire song is them being cunty together in the paddock and winning races and all of that while seb continue to be a brat and mark continues to be in love
'I dont wanna think about a moment with you / im kinda hoping for forever / I've been dreaming about a knitted sweater for two / goddamn it we look good together' sebastian in LOVEEEEE thinking it has to be forever, that mark is IT for him. while deep down, while the problems with red bull and the way Webber keeps on getting fucked over makes it really hard for him to really believe theyre gonna last.
'talk fast, romance / wont last, im okay with that / burn, crash, romance / ill take what I cant get from you'
and then there's just seb, KNOWING theyre both fucking up and making a mess out of it, 'leave all your indecisions at home / dont say youre doing me a favour / why so complicated, won't you throw me a bone / i want your love in every flavour' about them fighting again and again, and shit hitting the fan and mark trying to get away while seb does not want to let him go.
OBVIOUSLY this is from both of their povs 2014 onwards.
'is it bad that im hoping that youre broken? / is it bad that im wishing you're still broken? / that you haven't found fish in the ocean?' its either seb about mark in wec, or mark about seb in ferrari 2015, when things start to look up for him.
'i know im the stupid one who ended it / and now im the stupid one regretting it / it took me a couple drinks to admit it / I know im the stupid one' believe what you WILL we all know mark is the one who broke up with seb after Malaysia 2013, so obvi this is him. but in my mind is a couple years later already, when things settled down a bit.
'thinking about you lots lately / have you been eating breakfast alone like me? / thinking about you lots lately / or are you moving along?' this is seb all along for me. while mark would do everything NOT to think of sebastian and move on and focus on wec, seb was down BAD during the entire 2014 season. and im doubling down on the Hartley thing, seb would be SO JEALOUS
'scared of moving on, but you're already gone / so if you're moving on, wont you just tell me?' also sebastian, also jealous of mark's new teammates in wec
'some things are meant to be secret, not to be heard / so if I tell you just keep it and don't say a word / yeah, when the doors are all closing, it's bound to get loud' them hiding their relationship from the public, meeting in hotel rooms or random places in the garage without getting caught
'if these walls could talk / i'd hope they wouldn't say anything / because they've seen way too many things / and we'd fall from grace, we're falling' again them hiding their relationship from everyone, people cannot know without risking their careers.
'darling, all of my wrongs, they led me right to you / wrapped in your arms, I swear id die for / you love, your love / I'm a better better man' THEM AFTER THE 2010 TURKISH GP, obvi it leads to the clear rivalry that ultimately leads to them hooking up.
'thought id found the highest of highs / you came and topped them all / you shine in the dead of the night / and I was the first to fall' seb about winning the championship in 2010 (highest of highs) but then mark comes along
its giving disagreeing WHILE together and the small privileges rbr offers to sebastian and not webber and it making the relationship harder
'why cant we choose our emotions? / cause we can feel something's broken / and I cant stay without hoping / we'll never be alone' mark wanting to leave already, but truly in love with who sebastian is AWAY from f1
'and all the things that we dreamed about / they don't mean what they did before / i just wanna get back to us / cause we used to have more' either Sebastian's championships and wins, OR mark's championship in WEC. both looking back at their time together, dreaming of winning.
'cause lately we've been living in different nations / enemy lines were drawn' mark about spending the rest of the 2013 season being vettel's teammate after the malaysia break up.
10. why won't you love me
'switching into airplane mode again / we're not alright but I'll pretend / press my cheek against the glass / just be good til I get back' everything that mentions planes or flights ALWAYS has me thinking f1, and here I can only see seb going home after a terrible fight with mark.
'why won't you love me?' repeated again and again is seb wanting mark so SO bad and mark keeping his distance because he knows damn well they will make a mess out of it.
'falling fast, breathing slow / time is up, the end is just a dream' traveling around the world together, not knowing theyre doing but still doing it.
also the whole japan thing makes me think of seb in Suzuka and how it is such an important place for him
this is PEAK them just having fun, being rich, fucking around
'sugar-coated brain / the fluid ain't to blame / for the sugar-coated pain / oh living our lives / dancing on empty wallets / spend it all on you'
'so I drown it out like i always do / dancing through our house with the ghost of you' personally, this makes me think of scene I wrote of seb in his home drowning on the memories of mark everywhere, and thats the ONLY place my mind can go, SORRY. its giving winter, its giving depression, its giving seb knowing he fucked up and not knowing how to fix it.
obvi, I loved this album before, but now I just cannot think of anything else but sebmark when I listen to it.
600k words written for them and it still wasn't enough guys, I LOVE THEM TOO MUCH.
also (self promotion moment) dont hesitate to go check that ff out, because i promise a lot of the moments mentioned here i wrote about there. ty ily goodbye.