EASY by Shawn Mendes, an unreleased song that connects lyrically to 10 songs by Niall Horan ⭐️
Firstly, here’s a YouTube link to the song. https://youtu.be/2r1ErXM3Qkc
Especially “The Show” (the nervous response song) + “Must Be Love” (recognizing, working toward an end goal following your heart instead of overthinking)
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“Easy” by Shawn Mendes connects to “If You Leave Me” and “Cross Your Mind” through its imagery of diving into oceans, the hesitation (“you don’t”) by the same person diving into oceans, discussions of “your mind”, and then deciding if “it’s Easy.”
“If everything was easy” = “The Show”
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A specialist in overthinking, who’s got a PhD in running away, who’s scared to death, and likes to vanish…
Maybe he should stop, and take it easy, don’t overthink it, listen to his heart’s desire?
Parallels exist between “Easy” by Shawn Mendes and “Must Be Love” 💗by Niall Horan
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“Easy” by Shawn Mendes connects to three Niall songs that describe “close my eyes” to see our relationship - “Black and White”, “Too Much to Ask”, “Put a Little Love on Me”.
It also has a parallel to “You and Me”, “you and I know where it’s going” relates back to “it ends with you and me”
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“Easy” by Shawn touches on the 🌹 reference (“grow out of control” rose promo pic for Heaven release)
“Easy” asks “why would you run?” 🏃♂️
Niall describes himself as a runner in 3 songs: “my heart was always on the run”, “we were on the run”, and “I got a PhD in always running away”
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Niall’s description of running is always in contrast to loving
“On the run, but you making loving fun”
“Yesterday we were on the run, why’s it only YOU I’m thinking of?”
“I got a PhD in always running away, I’m trying to stop it but it feels like LOVE”
> Run? Drive forever with me?
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“The Show” by Niall Horan is the song that most connects to “Easy” by Shawn Mendes, especially adding in “305” and its rollercoaster ride🎢☀️
They look at the sun, catch you when gravity comes 🪂, decide if they’re ready (one’s never been so sure vs other says not ready)
Is it EASY??
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Easy by SM parallels with:
If You Leave Me 🌊
Cross Your Mind 🌊
Too Much to Ask 👁️🏃♂️
PALLOM 👁️
Black and White 👁️
Seeing Blind 🏃♂️
Must Be Love (🏃♂️, scared, overthinking)
The Show (looking at ☀️, easy)
You and Me ➡️
Heaven 🌹
Key:
Close my 👁️s
Dive into 🌊
On the run🏃♂️
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Another connection
“Looking at the stars”, “how to get there or is it just too far”? “you’re right here beside me” of Finally Free by Niall Horan
Matches with “Easy” by Shawn Mendes:
“Why would you run when you could drive forever with me toward the Sun?”
“Wanna be wherever you are”
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Maybe a month or so ago I happened to listen to some unreleased Oingo Boingo songs (all catchy btw). I liked this one in particular because of the beat and lyrics, and as I usually do while listening to a song, I read the comments until I came across this specific one:
...And then it dawned on me, the song is from the perspective of Johnny himself! I mean, I think it was kind of obvious from the lyrics of the song, plus this song would confirm in a way that the boy on the cover is Johnny himself because of the green hand he has, being literally a "teenage monster". Anyway, my English is not very good, so I didn't catch it the first time.
I started thinking how great it would have been if "Teenage Monster" had been added to the final version of the album. I mean, "Only A Lad" tells us about what a bastard Johnny is and how everyone tries to defend him by saying that he is "unprivileged and abused, perhaps a little bit confused". What does Johnny have to say about it? I mean, yes, in the song it is very obvious how evil Johnny is (he killed a man and apparently didn't suffer any charges or punishment!), but nobody is born wanting to do evil.
In "Teenage Monster" Johnny describes the other kids as "stupid" and how he is a "product of a modern time", blaming society for his behavior just as the other adults around him do. In the song there also seems to be a bit of character development, as Johnny says he is no longer a teenage monster, getting a job at the discount store, although I question whether he instantly stopped being a "teenage monster" just by getting a job, mentioning having a cool car and "drive real fast". Maybe it was in this song that Johnny hit the poor man who died.
ANYWHO for me this song, out of all the unreleased ones that also deserved to be released, deserves more to have been released for the context of the song, allowing us Johnny's point of view on his own acting, however ephemeral it may be and not having very much correlation with "Only A Lad". Besides, it would have been a bridge between "Only A Lad" and "Cool City", in which Johnny is basically going to start a new life from what I understand, just let's hope it's for the best.
I don't understand how it wasn't released. I think it would have been an immediate classic, plus with this song it would have been 11 songs in total on the album, Danny Elfman's favorite number apparently. I don't think it would have been that their label wouldn't have let them. I mean, if they accepted "Little Girls" I don't see what's so explicit or controversial about this song along with this one or "Only A Lad"...
Anyway, this is just my point of view of this song or whatever, thank you very much for reading!
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