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
