I think people are watching the music video and then trying to understand the song from the video. From what I know about Nate Ruess' writing style both from Fun. and The Format is that he doesn't write many figurative songs. Most of them directly stem from his personal life.
This, like most of the songs, on Some Nights are about being at a cross-roads in his life with Fun. Many of the lines are about the aftermath of The Format, moving from Arizona to New York...etc I get this as kind of his midlife crisis, where he doesn't know what he's doing with music anymore. He doesn't know what his purpose is. I think you can take this song as a pretty literal picture of Nate's life since the first Fun. album.
I think people are watching the music video and then trying to understand the song from the video. From what I know about Nate Ruess' writing style both from Fun. and The Format is that he doesn't write many figurative songs. Most of them directly stem from his personal life. This, like most of the songs, on Some Nights are about being at a cross-roads in his life with Fun. Many of the lines are about the aftermath of The Format, moving from Arizona to New York...etc I get this as kind of his midlife crisis, where he doesn't know what he's doing with music anymore. He doesn't know what his purpose is. I think you can take this song as a pretty literal picture of Nate's life since the first Fun. album.
nailed it.
nailed it.
Yeah, pretty much agree 100%.
Yeah, pretty much agree 100%.