if it's not real you can't hold it in your han, can't feel it with your heart, and i won't believe it.
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"Girl only know one pose" indeed, and I have a lot of very normal thoughts about it.
A bit ago I was actually discussing with some friends (who previously knew little to nothing of the band's history) about how the framing of the two most explicit and incredibly commercially successful love songs in their MVs, feel particularly icky to me.
Especially since BNE Hayley was finally "of age" for the entirety of the album cycle. It's now socially acceptable for her to be an object of sexual desire (and I hate it!!), she feels submissive, with big bedroom eyes (one literally on a bed), singing to YOU. She is the product for the audience to want and desir.
A girl in love is to be helpless. Apparently. And to suddenly be so hyper feminised in way we haven't seen her display before, conveniently timed...
QUICK EDIT: It's not a crime to love these MVs, theres a lot to love about them. My problem and criticisms lie with the marketability and expectation of the public perception/societal views
Two other videos I had totally forgotten about until I was looking for relevant pics and gifs for my original tweet thread that will become very relevant later:
Brick by Boring Brick - suddenly infantilised, framed with a childlike sense of helplessness (Funny that. On the album where she is trying to be marketed as an adult to be desired) that her dreams are a fantasy.
Now - Already having fallen, seeming as if she has already lost this battle, one of many (hi Self-Titled)
The other example obvious to many was indeed Hard Times, but I'd also like to bring up Told You So a bit earlier than in my initial thread. Even tho not an exact parallel of her signature pose, it signifies a similar set of feelings- also a convient MV for some other parallels later on...
Hard Times - Our girl loves a good falling metaphor. It's slow, it's agonising, as if going on forever, seeming as if she's doomed to repeat the fall to rock bottom again, and again
Told You So - Alone in an empty home (We'll be bringing THIS back later) wrapped in a blanket to gain any sense of warmth. Once again feeling helpless, and trapped. But this time the boys are comin'!!
Part of me also wants to say this is one of the first instances T+Z (or any ex-band member for that matter) have been shown to play an active roll in the greater Paramore narrative. Other than Now... which I immediately forgot even tho I literally just talked about it. I could maybe argue however that the boys are reactive to those events at play. Caught up in the war, H being the only target.
I'm sure I could easily talk about PFA MVs in addition but this shit is too long already, everything I've already spoken about here makes the points I wanna make.
Anyway I'm taking a quick break before I dig into TIW era
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thinking about the lyrical parallel between brick by boring brick and 26. thinking about brand new eyes being angry and loud, i've got no time for feeling sorry, ignorance is your new best friend, thinking about brand new eyes being about being afraid of yourself yet reveling in your power, i'm just a ghost and yet they follow me, the truth never set me free so i did it myself, no one is as lucky as us. thinking about after laughter being about poking your head out of your own sadness, if i smile with my teeth i think i'd believe me, boy you ain't ever seen my mind, thinking about after laughter being about time passing, i can't think of getting old it just makes me want to die, time is a bastard i won't break my neck to get around it. thinking about
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