Now I'm thinking about anderperry in regards to Black and White by Niall Horan, mostly bc the song breaks down the concept of a wedding to its most bare essentials, and even though we love to think about anderperry getting married, they wouldn't realistically be able to do that until they were...67 (if they'd both lived that long). But the lines of Black and White aren't about legal processes.
Yeah, I see us in black and white
Crystal clear on a star lit night
In all your gorgeous colors
I promise that I'll love you for the rest of my life
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
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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?”
From back to back albums. “Wonder” and “Heartbreak Weather”.
Both Niall and Shawn having thoughts of marriage, yet Niall said his life things are happening at a different pace. Yup. Well… there’s reasons it would be.
In “Wonder”, Shawn hopes this person will be by his side and the world will be ok with it 😭❤️🔥
Both songs make reference to colors for the other person… Niall saying he sees this person “in all your gorgeous colors”, meanwhile Shawn is vowing to “paint the world that you deserve, every color you’d imagine”. B&W mv is, ironically, COLORFUL!
Adding that the word “dress” can either mean the specific garment that could be referred to as a gown OR it can also be reference to formal wear (ie. of which a wedding would have).
THEN?? the start of B&W is Niall’s date “fumbling” for their keys, but then he kisses them…. He could tell they’re “NERVOUS”??? IN Shawn’s song he tells a story about being nervous at his date’s apartment door being nervous??? HELLOO???? Like… HELLO??