Fire From The Hip. What's that missing?
Sidenote: I have started new mood stabilizers, and my mood is picking up, and I feel like an energizer bunny. So take all the things I wrote with a grain of salt, or maybe the ocean worth of salt. Not the saving real girls part is true. Oooh, new meds.
Regardless, if Finn Wolfhard's new album is meta or not, it is great. I can not remember the last time I listened to an album this many times. I can't pick a favorite song, which only happens when I listen to musicals.
The only flaw is its order. So I reordered songs, and now they climb like a ladder and instead of a down and depressing ending. The album finishes with the narrator going dancing. It's a better finish. And a more hopeful one. But to get the dancing, the narrator has to hurt people on the way. Maggie, Crater, Lights Go Down, and finally the narrator hurt themselves with Common Side Effects, the high risk of death being a soothing idea, been there, it is not good.
The Climb (No Not That One.)
When you climb, there is this self-acceptance arc baked in. It's why I believe the album is meta and Wolfhard's, The Wall by Pink Floyd, album about Mike Wheeler from Mike's pov. A double meaning album.
I would not be shocked if this is similar to Mike's continuous journey. And if it is, the world is going to see Mike Wheeler suck in entirely new ways. I love that, man, because he will be older in cannon, regardless. My prickly idiot who never turns off his brain. Who probably needs therapy. Don't we all.
I want to hit a few songs.
Nice To Meet You Again: This is the song that makes me want this album to be Wolfhard's The Wall. When you climb the songs upwards the song becomes number 3rd in the story, and I tentatively get hopefully. I know that Mike is going to be thinking about marriage, "This thing.. uh yeah, like uh, it ties us to together or whatever." Stolen memories. Mike could never deliver this line with the same love and affection as Jonathan. Keep trying Mike you will get there. Anyways. This song being 3rd tells me Will is going to show up before Mike proposes or at least let's Mike know he is here and willing. Mike still goes through with the proposal, though. If I am right, Stranger Things is for adults again. Yeah. For me.
Maggie: Girl, throw that man curb side. The Bush reading while the towers fell. Really, Mr. Wolfhard, really? Why. Damn good song, though. Current favorite. Until tomorrow at least. What did you put in these songs dude? Thank your band.
Oscilloscope: How perfectly confusing this song is. The lyrics feel like they are doing less talking than the tempo. The tempo feels more honest, in a way.
The tempo stays the same.
The tempo raises. It feels like palm sweating and someone's heart beating faster. The tempo feels... nervous. Where are the tempo stayed neutral-ish around pretty guys. Take that as you will. I am on Twitter, and I have seen different opinions. This is mine. This is a song does throw me a bit with the meta theory. Again, it's probably my favorite that tempo and instrumental part that probably has a name that I don't know, the band in this song. Fuck me they killed this song.
Light Go Down: Firstly, I am very in the Moive Theater will save the world, camp. This song just threw gasoline on my theory. What do you mean you wake up from a dream in the theater? Then go back to sleep for the "little man in your head." All the songs about people visiting each other in a dream world. Ok. The other part that stands out is the lyrics
Another girl will make you feel good one day
We come to this place for the magic
When added with Maggie. If this is meta. People are about to find out Mike sucks. I have known this. My first ever blog was about Mike cheating.
I was thinking about that, Mike's cheating. I realized it is the only way to save real-life girls who do not understand how bad Mike and Jane are for each other. The script is weak. The people still ship them. Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard bring zero chemistry to their scenes. The people still ship them. Mike is less thoughtful of Jane than he is with others. The people still ship them. What would it take for people to understand the core message of their relationship is that it is unhealthy. The answer: make Mike worse. And let Will be his guiding light out of the darkness because that darkness was created for him, not by him. And only other queer people can love him back home.
Let the girls watch Mike suck and continue to let Lucas shine. See the better boyfriend. See past Finn Wolfhards' pretty face and through to Mike Wheeler. They are not the same person.
Jane needs Max. Jane needs Kali. Jane needs Joyce. Jane could use Lucas. Unfortunately, he is taken. Jane needs a vent session and not to talk to Mike or have the expectation of understanding him while her heart is breaking into a thousand pieces. She needs people firmly in her camp. Not neutral, for as long as it takes to heal. If Jane never wants to talk with Mike Wheeler again, that is a good decision. If she forgives in time, that is good too. Jane needs analysis that focuses on the character we are presented with, not the character that is the soft and forgiving and understanding, I see some people turn her into. So much of Jane is me. A scary amount. Those blogs are too personal and save in the drafts. I can't make Jane suck because every time I do, I remember that days I hated myself while sitting in a 72-hour stay with pretty grippy blue socks on. Jane, we get there, babe. It just takes us longer. I am crying, talking about a completely different topic. How does my head always drift? Whatever.
If Mike is Queer, the queer fan base, over a certain age and the ones stuck in pockets of the world where queerness is still not acceptable, will understand his journey. It will be cathartic for so many people. It's brave to write queer stories honestly, even when it hurts the others the straights. They can learn acceptance, too. Acceptance arcs are not just for the queers anymore.
That's it. Again, if the album is not meta, I still enjoy analyzing it through a meta lense. It is a damn good album. Congratulations to him and his band members. Well, I guess I am a Finn Wolfhard fan now. This entire time, I was just a Mike Wheeler fan.
Just to feel like George Clooney
Holly, who is Mike, was taken to the 1960s, when Boomers were born. Bravo Wolfhard.
I do not follow any of the actors. The gram is my none Stranger Things, safe place, as much as that's possible. I don't know where else they might be, but I don't follow them there either. I have Twitter, and Twitter is God. I see everything there. Does listening to the album count as following?
