Many good things have been said and I'll try to summarize it somewhat.
I think Rokr got it quite - look at the title. This song is about being "personal" in different ways.
First, it's about the actual nature of those internet dating platforms and I'm quite surprised no one has talked about that yet. While everything seems totally meaningless, spontaneous and not personal, there are actually deep feelings behind all that happened. The music illustrates this, I think: Notice how the melody of the singers is actually very monotonous almost throughout the whole song, while it is the music - the thing that only the listeners hear - that reveals its actual tragic nature. Only when she writes him after he didn't show up her voice changes very slightly, has more melodic peaks. And when she finally sings "I was sure you saw me", when she rests a moment on that high note of "sure", that is actually the only time emotions really show up. But then she leads on - "it wasn't meant to be."
Then, it's about the way the two characters deal with their emotions and with intimacy.
I half agree with clashippy: "therefore, girls over-analyze, boys lead on"
But I'd rather say - they both over-analyze, and they both ultimately lead on. I also think in the end they both blame themselves, but this is not so evident in the case of him, because the fundamental difference between them is that she talks, while he doesn't.
And that's the magic of it - that is, I think, why he didn't show up in the first place, and also why he didn't tell her anything: Being personal is just a weight is not able to bear.
As for all the speculations, I think it's part of this song that we actually don't know what's going on. We only have their private (another hint!) messages, and we have the thoughts of Caroline (notice that we don't know his name at all): so first we get just her perspective, but only at the end does the male character himself question the story, very faintly (again cfr. the musical interpretation), thus adding a wholly different perspective. We are left with a look at both sides, which somehow tells us nothing - and somehow everything.
Ok in my opinion. This song has ZERO meaning with weight. If you listen to her voice she's obviously grieving a lost one. After he sees the picture, he obviously still goes to meet her because she saw him. If he would have freaked out about the picture he wouldn't have gone at all. She might actually be too beautiful for him. He might have been taken back by it and got nervous to do anything about it.
Ok in my opinion. This song has ZERO meaning with weight. If you listen to her voice she's obviously grieving a lost one. After he sees the picture, he obviously still goes to meet her because she saw him. If he would have freaked out about the picture he wouldn't have gone at all. She might actually be too beautiful for him. He might have been taken back by it and got nervous to do anything about it.
Many good things have been said and I'll try to summarize it somewhat.
I think Rokr got it quite - look at the title. This song is about being "personal" in different ways.
First, it's about the actual nature of those internet dating platforms and I'm quite surprised no one has talked about that yet. While everything seems totally meaningless, spontaneous and not personal, there are actually deep feelings behind all that happened. The music illustrates this, I think: Notice how the melody of the singers is actually very monotonous almost throughout the whole song, while it is the music - the thing that only the listeners hear - that reveals its actual tragic nature. Only when she writes him after he didn't show up her voice changes very slightly, has more melodic peaks. And when she finally sings "I was sure you saw me", when she rests a moment on that high note of "sure", that is actually the only time emotions really show up. But then she leads on - "it wasn't meant to be."
Then, it's about the way the two characters deal with their emotions and with intimacy. I half agree with clashippy: "therefore, girls over-analyze, boys lead on" But I'd rather say - they both over-analyze, and they both ultimately lead on. I also think in the end they both blame themselves, but this is not so evident in the case of him, because the fundamental difference between them is that she talks, while he doesn't. And that's the magic of it - that is, I think, why he didn't show up in the first place, and also why he didn't tell her anything: Being personal is just a weight is not able to bear.
As for all the speculations, I think it's part of this song that we actually don't know what's going on. We only have their private (another hint!) messages, and we have the thoughts of Caroline (notice that we don't know his name at all): so first we get just her perspective, but only at the end does the male character himself question the story, very faintly (again cfr. the musical interpretation), thus adding a wholly different perspective. We are left with a look at both sides, which somehow tells us nothing - and somehow everything.
Ok in my opinion. This song has ZERO meaning with weight. If you listen to her voice she's obviously grieving a lost one. After he sees the picture, he obviously still goes to meet her because she saw him. If he would have freaked out about the picture he wouldn't have gone at all. She might actually be too beautiful for him. He might have been taken back by it and got nervous to do anything about it.
Ok in my opinion. This song has ZERO meaning with weight. If you listen to her voice she's obviously grieving a lost one. After he sees the picture, he obviously still goes to meet her because she saw him. If he would have freaked out about the picture he wouldn't have gone at all. She might actually be too beautiful for him. He might have been taken back by it and got nervous to do anything about it.