"This next song that we're gonna do is one that is about how maybe in our lives, if we've ever been let down, or things haven't turned out the way that we wanted them to in relationships, how oftentimes we then kind of have this sort of phantom fear of like, tragedy. Like, phantom tragedy, where you're like… if you ever find something really great, um, or a situation that is solid, or a situation where your trust isn't being broken, sometimes you have to deal with your demons from all those times that it didn't work, and you have to kind of stop yourself from thinking that the worst is always going to happen. And this is a song that kind of touches on, you know, anxiety and just how to break patterns and cycles that aren't healthy, because we learn a lot in life, and some of the lessons are good, and some of the habits are good, and some of the habits are bad, so um, it's a song basically about having to unlearn some bad lessons that you… that you learned in the past."
September 2, 2019: Taylor talks about anxiety before playing 'The Archer' for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. (source 1, 2)
Este é um projeto gráfico e editorial de um livro de letras de música do álbum ルームシックガールズエスケープ / Roomsick Girls Escape, da banda ヒトリエ/ / HITORIE, para a Manju. Ela traduz as letras, posts de blogue, anúncios etc. da banda para inglês e tinha planeado agrupar estas traduções num livro. Ofereci-me para o fazer por ela como um exercício. A estética foi maioritariamente inspirada pela capa e booklet do álbum, com alguma influência vinda também dos vídeos de música.
This is a graphic editorial project of a fan made lyric book for ヒトリエ / HITORIE's first album, ルームシックガールズエスケープ / Roomsick Girls Escape, for Manju. She frequently translates their song lyrics, blogposts, announcements, etc. into English and had planned to put together the translations of it into a small book, so, for practice, I offered to do it myself. The visuals of it are inspired mostly by the album's cover and lyric booklet, separating the objects of the illustration into each page. Some inspiration was also taken from the music videos.
Book Pages
Na altura não tinha tempo nem confiança para criar uma ilustração para a capa, portanto ainda é possível que eu volte a este projeto (esta é a segunda edição). A encadernação era originalmente termal, mas como não se concretizou esse é outro aspeto sujeito a revisão. O livro enviado para a Manju foi cosido à mão por mim e, como as páginas não tinham sido preparadas para tal, o papel sofreu um pequeno desgaste.
At the time I was not confident nor had the time to do a proper illustration for the cover, but I’d like to return to this project one day and do so (currently, this is the second edition). I had also prepared the cover to undergo termal binding, but wasn’t possible at the time, therefore it is another aspect of the book subject to updating. The book that was shipped to Manju was, instead, hand sewn by me; the pages were not properly prepared for the process and suffered minor tearing.
* The video of the printed copy can be seen here.
* Thank you to Manju for the ongoing translations, and several others for reviewing the book before its final version.
"One of my favorite things that happens in the Live Lounge is a cover song, and I spent a lot of time trying to pick which cover song to do with this one. I just had this album come out called 'Lover', where I was really experiencing and exploring a lot of different types of love and that was what I was drawn to when I was writing. So I think that, for this cover song, I wanted to choose a song that I felt really expressed an interesting, beautiful, exquisite type of love. The cover song that I've chosen is 'Can't Stop Loving You' by Phil Collins. I love this song so much! I love it so much. Ever since it came out, like, I remember driving around when I first had my driver's license in Nashville, just driving around just screaming the words to this song. And I think that the type of love that this song sings about is unconditional love.
People say that term all the time, and they kind of think that they know what unconditional love is, but I think true, unconditional love is like, do you love someone so much that you would even love them if they didn't love you anymore? Like that is unconditional love. And so, that's what this song sings about. It's literally the most sad, beautiful song ever, and I'm really stoked to be able to cover it today. So this is 'Can't Stop Loving You' by Phil Collins."
September 2, 2019: Taylor defines unconditional love before performing a cover of 'Can't Stop Loving You' by Phil Collins for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. (source 1, 2, 3)