#but something isn't right and she's resorted to lying to try to keep mike's affections

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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles

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#stranger things #bizarre love triangle playlist #el hopper #el's pov #this is the first song for el in the playlist #also probably the most optimistically romantic song for el in the playlist 😭 #this is because these are el's feelings in the day before their reunion aka before everything sort of went to shit (mike's words not mine) #and yet while it is hopefully romantic #every romantic build up leads to a 'but--' #the whole point of the song is this feeling of uncertainty that this love she's filling is doomed not to last last #'tonight you're mine completely. you give your love so sweetly. tonight the light of love is in your eyes. but will you love me tomorrow?' #despite this love existing right now in a way that feels tangible. sometime as soon as tomorrow that love is suddenly at risk #and it's sad bc we know that deep down el is having doubts seeing as mike is incapable of simply writing love in his letters #it's just especially sad in her case bc she thinks she is responsible for it ie. 'you don't love me anymore?' #up to this point she has had reason to assume that mike loves her bc of what she overheard mike saying to the others in the cabin #but something isn't right and she's resorted to lying to try to keep mike's affections #right now she can feel some comfort in the fact that she has all these letters/pictures from him displayed in the mike shrine in her room #and yet... #'i'd like to know that your love is love i can be sure of. so tell me now and i wont ask again. will you still love me tomorrow?' #dead ass sounds like a very very valid threat as el's doubts were very much founded #it basically foreshadows how mike being incapable of telling el he loves her in her room during their fight is the final straw for her #she is not going to ask again #and so mike going through with it in the end just makes it all the more tragically epic #and then ending the song with: #'will you still love me...' #dot dot dot indeed #4x01 #gif