The song 'Fortnight' by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word 'fortnight' shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
I think he wants to take his relationship, which was until now essentially just two people having fun, to a new level. Instead of the standard dinner and a movie date he wants to get emotionally naked with her, to have her expose her inner self to him and to bond and to really know her.
I totally agree, it is not only about physical passion and wanting, it talks about deeper cognition of the other person and I hate when people see this amazing song only as expression of sexual appetite..
It's not about sex or nudity. He wants to see her(?) true "self". In a media driven society everyone has faces representing the image they want the people in the different aspects of their life to see. "Leave it to Beaver" mom to the kids and nieghbors, "Ally McBeal" in the workplace, " "I Dream of Genie" in the bedroom. The "Without your television" line is saying don't show me what "Cosmo" or "The View" tells you I want to see. Show me who you are.
I think it's about that nakedness of vulnerability.
Davesnothere and Schfifty both have it right. Humanity has a lot of social masks that we portray to people, he is saying to his partner that he wants to see her stripped of all of her societally driven masks, he wants her to be the person she truly is.
I mean obviously to each their own, but i feel thats what he was talking about. There is too much underlying meaning in the lyrics for it to just be a simple song of lust and primal urge.
Exactly!! I love your interpretation! Definitely NOT about sex! I agree that it's about wanting your lover to portray who they really are. With no games or defenses up. Wanting them to speak of their their true feelings just for you.
Just want to say this song has to be one of the greatest fucking songs ever. And when I say "fucking" I mean in a car, at the shoulder of the road, at sometime past midnight.
this is the best interpretation! really! thanks for great idea
This song is really addicting...any a little eerie as well. I have an in concert version and it's creepy how quiet the crowd gets when he sings but how much they cheer before and after. By the way, Shiny Toy Guns covered this song as well and it's really, really good.
i agree im listening to this right now.
Stripped is DM's most beautiful song. I can't believe 1/3 of the people on this page are talking about how they like some cover better... "Rammstein's version of Stripped is better because it's funny!"
IMO, the best version of this song is from 101 (the concert movie). You can find it on YouTube. It's really good.
About a romantic get-away from technology and modern society, but the song seems quite sinister as well.
Saturnine, thanks for mentioning 1984. Now I'm ashamed I didn't notice it myself.
I'm not sure if you're right, but it all fits pretty well, especially "just for a day" and "for a few hours", and of course the reference to "television".
Also "speaking just for me". In the country, they don't have to act for the screens.