#Something Great

[larry-hiatus]

You know, Something Great didn’t need to end like that. Louis didn’t need to come in out of nowhere with his hauntingly beautiful voice and heartbreaking words about how he’s hurting from wanting someone so much; he’s like, “Here, hold this a minute, it’s my pain,” and then the song just ends, he never comes back for it. I’ve still got your pain, Louis, can’t seem to let it go; why you gotta do us like that?

#idk man I just think about these things sometimes #one direction #1d #louis tomlinson #something great

[riddles-n-games]

The way I’m going to blast This Love and Something Great on repeat when I read Hannah and Toby’s story.

Also, tell me I’m not the only one thinking how well So Long, London would describe the end of their relationship. The bitterness, the sadness, all from Hannah’s POV. Ugh, I’m not okay.

#hannah rooney #toby hawthorne #toby x hannah #otp songs #this love #something great #so long london #taylor swift #one direction #idk what to think #they are going to wreck me #the same forward as backward #tig anecdote #the inheritance games thoughts #the inheritance games #games untold #tig #gu

[dykwdlo68wm4]

Some images are in Wordprint Version 2.0 (they are working on version 2.0)

#chicken run #aardman #wordprint #version 2.0 #something great #behind the scenes

[roseanddagger-28]

Ultimate Song Competition: One Direction edition

All of Round 1 battles

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#one direction #1dsongcompetition #1d round 1 #no control #something great

[fondlyfonding]

#louis tomlinson #one direction #solo louis #something great

[fieriframes]

[OF PUTTING WONDERFUL FLAVORS TOGETHER. I KNOW I'M ALWAYS GONNA GET SOMETHING GREAT AND SAID SOMETHING OBSCENE. TEXAS CHILI PEPPER STEAK. MM-HMM. IT'S GOT PEPPERS AND ONIONS, AND IT'S LAYING ON THIS AWESOME BED OF MASHED POTATOES.]

#s04e04 where the locals eat #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #said something obscene #something great #wonderful flavors #chili pepper #got peppers #awesome bed #mashed potatoes #gonna #mm-hmm #onions

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

I saw some people say that FITF is a grown up MM and honestly I kinda agree, it has the same vibe to me

Looking at this tracklist, I think the best songs indisputably have the same signature and that’s Louis’.

Through the Dark shares the same theme as carrying the listener from darkness to light as Angels Fly, Holding Onto Heartache.

Diana, Better Than Words, Best Song Ever, LBD with the pop punk rock vibe.

Strong, a love ballad with beautiful, direct metaphors and simple diction that conveys a complex and headlong hook, “I’m sorry if I say I need you/ but I don’t care, I’m not scared of love.”

#something great #the only song that 1D never sang on tour #the ONLY song #and it’s written by Harry #midnight memories #one direction #louis tomlinson #both something great and happily sound nothing like Harry’s music now — there’s no musical signature that has persisted #and it makes you wonder how much he actually ‘writes’

[lets-talk-spirituality]

Do you have an already written analysis for something great? You mention it a lot in your song analyses. Don’t worry about it if you don’t

Hi nonnie! I do. It’s one of the first songs I ever analyzed because it’s one of the first he’s ever written.

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SOMETHING GREAT

(Midnight Memories, released in 2013) written with Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) and Jacknife Lee (producer with an impressive hit list).

One day you'll come into my world and say it all

One day, as in the future; come into my world, his world (not a shared world), come into (so not a part of it already because if they were it would be come back, return); say it all, say what?

You’ll say we'll be together even when you're lost

This is what you will say; even when you’re lost, you is lost, lost to him, lost to themself, regardless he wants them to be together; notice it’s you will, we will= future tense; you are lost=present (not future or past so ongoing)

One day you'll say these words I’ve thought but never said

Again, one day, in the future, you will say these words; he’s thought them but never said them. He’s thought about you saying this or about him wanting someone to say that to him? Why hasn’t he said them, because he can’t for some reason?

You’ll say we're better off together in our bed

In the future you will say; our bed, shared; better off together vs apart.

I want you here with me

He misses his person and wants them in the flesh, here with him, presently

Like how I pictured it

He’s pictured it in his mind, so in the past he’s pictured it, what you will say, you being here with him

So I don't have to keep imagining

Imagining because it’s the only place he can connect with the person, he keeps imagining implying frequently, recurring and current, implies a frustration with having to imagine and not have in reality, like he doesn’t want to imagine it any more.

Come on, jump out at me

He’s begging this person to come on, as in hurry up, follow me; jump out at me, meaning make yourself known, show up, but also implies he’ll recognize the person instantly—they will jump out to him; Webster defines jump out at as “1 : to suddenly come at (someone) from a hiding place (implying this person is unknown/hidden to him) 2 : to immediately get the attention of (someone)” the second definition implies he is confirming if they come on he will know them immediately, almost don't be afraid to come forward

Come on, bring everything

Begging them to hurry up again; telling them it’s okay, bring everything, baggage and trauma, all your heart, give it your all, bring all you have to me, encouraging almost

Is it too much to ask for something great?

Rhetorical question not directed at you, directed at the universe; he’s wondering if this desire for something great (this relationship, finding his person that will stay with him when they are lost, stay in their bed) is too much to ask; said in a way that hints at exasperation; usually this phrase is used when you don’t think the request is too much to ask and is sarcastic; great meaning- of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above the normal or average.

The script was written and I could not change a thing

The script was written, script implies they are following something already written but it doesn’t imply either person wrote it, it was written but by who, not him because he couldn’t change it; they are actors “all the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players” this also implies a sense of hopelessness, lack of control over the outcome; what couldn’t be changed? The only thing that makes sense is separation or the journey/path of their lives because the chorus references him wanting them here with him.

Note: could is conditional tense, it is not can not/did not which is harsher and more finite with more agency, could suggests something outside of the self directing it. It sounds like he’s giving an explanation to this person.

I want to rip it all to shreds and start again

This lack of control frustrates him, he wants to rip the script up and start again (his life, their journey?) willing to start everything over to have things between them be different; this shows he’s highly invested in this outcome and highly aware of something outside the two of them at play. He’s telling this person essentially if I had the power, I’d do things differently.

One day I'll come into your world and get it right

One day in the future; now he’s coming to the person, they aren’t coming into his world, he’s coming into theirs; he says he’ll get it right, implying in the past he’s gotten it wrong, not necessarily with the person but in love as a whole, that’s what it implies to me, it could also mean get whatever is keeping them apart right so they are together; he’s saying when I come to you I will get it right, reassuring them he’s gonna come correct; again this doesn’t imply he knows them because it’s not I’ll come back

I'll say we're better off together here tonight

Now you isn’t speaking in the future, he is, he’s saying in the future he will say this; no matter what they are better off together, here… where is here? With each other. Repeating the earlier line of better off together. This is repeated to emphasize this feeling of no matter what we are better off together, he believes this, he wants this

You're all I want

He’d start everything over for this person, they are all he wants in life; you are, present

So much it's hurting

It’s hurting implies presently he feels this; this yearning for this person pains him, because they are not with him currently, but he knows in the future they will be; in the future they will have this honest vulnerable conversation about how much they need each other and stay together; this part of the song is poignant because the vocals are louder than the instrumentation and it’s stripped, he wants them to know he’s not okay with what the script is and to remind them how much he wants them, this is a vulnerable moment because he admits his suffering

#Harry styles #song analysis #lyric analysis #one direction #midnight memories #something great #harry 1d #1direction #1d fandom

[1dsounds]

#one direction #midnight memories #midnight memories deluxe #something great #a*

[roseshirtlouis]

do you ever listen to something great and it just makes you want to rip your heart out and give it to harry and louis bc of how much they wanted each other.

#pain #something great #one direction #harry styles #louis tomlinson #larry

[claraeuterpebaudry]

Something Great || Anna + Clara

It may have been some sort of pipe dream or, honestly, just a joke, but Clara had actually really liked the thought of having a little One Direction concert. What wasn’t to like about it, after all? All of their music was good and getting to do stuff that was more contemporary would help shake people out of their heads for a bit of a break! The Music had liked the idea, too, if the copious amount of times she’d heard the melodies to various One Direction songs throughout her day. It even went as far as to high jack her phone, playing their songs despite it clearly being on shuffle. 

(Also— she had really enjoyed Anna’s company. She was nice! She was funny! Clara didn’t think she had totally botched their interaction!)

After too much over thinking, she’d sent Anna a text, asking if she’d been serious about the concert. Then (when Clara had worked up the courage to actually look at her phone again) she’d replied that, yeah, she was. 

This was how they got to be sitting in the dining hall, trying to work out how they were going to get this whole thing off the ground. “Hate to say it, but I guess planning the set list will probably be the last thing we get to do, huh?”

@sommer-girl

#something great #sommer girl

[sunflowervolum-6]

Ok but 'something great' fucked me really bad the other day when i realized harry wrote that song and made louis sing ' youre all i want so much its hurting '

#larry stylinson #harry styles #louis Tomlinson #something great #one direction

[deanisbisexual]

REMINDING ME OF SOMETHING GREAT AT THIS HOUR IS RUDE

I WANT YOU HEERE WITH ME LIKE HOW I PICTURED IT SO I DON'T HAVE TO KEEP IMAGINING. COME ON JUMP OUT AT ME, COME ON BRING EVERYHTING. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR SOMETHING GREAT??? THE SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN ADN I COULD NOT CHANGE A THING, I WANT TO RIP IT ALL TO SHREDS AND START AGAIN. ONE DAY I'LL COME INTO YOUR WORLD AND GET IT RIGHT.

you're all i want so much it's hurting

you're all i want so much it's h u r t i n g

#something great #my best friend #baby harry please explain yourself #i deserve financial compensation for going through all of this as a teenager #1d #non spn #but you're right its almost 4am i need to SLEEP

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[asadfangirlbitxh]

Gina Rodriguez always seems to play a writer who can't take criticism and every single time it reminds me I'm not doing what I love

#gina rodriguez #players #dead to me #jane the virgin #something great

[waitingforthesunrise]

don’t you love when you’re casually reading a random poem and suddenly come across a line that burrows into your bones and becomes the definition of your heart for the next 17 years

#poetry posting #Me with ‘lord we owe the world such tenderness’ #And ‘In the next life I’ll become something useful. like a staple gun. or in love.’ #Or ‘our great betrayal is our infinite gentleness’ #Like WHAT THE HELL #poetry #reading poetry