#the melody is unsettling and their songs are usually cynical lmao but it leans more on the sweet end of bittersweet to me

[vimbry]

thinking tmbg song analysis again. love rabid child, cause its lyrics make me imagine a young girl with a special interest in radio systems, who largely stays inside due to implied illness, but likes to socialise with the truckers she contacts. the kid gives herself that handle to make light of how she feels. she's not overly comfortable speaking and isn't too familiar with trucking/lingo yet, saying only a couple phrases when she's there (hammer down [speed up], rabbit ears). everyone's pretty fond of her, narrator of the song included, and understands she's likely pretty lonely and wishes her better soon, so if you pass the rabid child, say hammer down for me :)

#ah wait actually I was thinking of the narrator as one of the people she's talking to #but it could be her family! #the melody is unsettling and their songs are usually cynical lmao but it leans more on the sweet end of bittersweet to me #rabid child is weird girl culture #am I looking too much into what's been theorised to just be a parody of the song teddy bear. probably #are tmbg songs deceptively simple and worth interpreting many different ways #yes #the tmbgcu (they might be giants composition universe): rabid child and toddler hiway are about the same kid at different points