I went to play minigolf last night and there was an older couple there who made me think of Harry and Louis.
they were laughing and having a great time together. they even cracked some jokes to me and my friends. they looked extremely happy even after being together for probably a long time.
Harry would be cracking jokes, while Louis laughed. they're great with people so they'd definitely interact with the stupid teenagers who are playing behind them. and they're happy being with each other, even after all this time :)
whenever something happens to me, I just think of Louis and Harry in that situation together
imagine...
it's pouring rain at 1 in the morning, they're driving out to get food and all of the sudden they hit something and their tire is flat. they pull over and spend the next half an hour trying to get the stupid tire off. they're drenched in water, tired, hungry and at this point just want to go home. but they're laughing, just enjoying their time together
Hit us with those good good canyon moon home parallels. You know we know you got em.
Are you ready for this SIT DOWN YOU'RE NOT READY. Listen this lil shit. Which one? THIS ONE
just decided to sit down and just TAKE APART HOME, HUSSLE IT, and go yep that's it that's my new song alright why because my lil louis lil blue wrote this for me hihihi that's why Listen to how Home starts, the "make a little conversation", and then compare that to Canyon Moon, the "you gotta see it to believe it". There are a bunch of obvious parallels between these 2 (oh I dunno maybe mermaid just yelling Home home home I'm going home over and over for one), but because these lines really sound the same the same and I had noticed some of these lines are quite similar too ("make a little conversation" vs "quick pause in conversation") I got the idea to check and compare them all and uh... I think there's really some fun intent going on here.
All the lines in Home that are sung this way:
"make a little conversation"
"so long ive been waiting"
"so many nights I thought it over"
"told myself i kinda liked her"
"so hot that I couldn't take it"
"want to wake up and see your face"
"still high with a little feeling"
"see the smile as it starts to creep in"
And the same for Canyon Moon:
"you gotta see it to believe it"
"so hard to leave it“
"the world's happy waiting"
"I heard jenny saying"
"staring at the ceiling"
"carry the feeling"
"quick pause in conversation"
"an old lovers hippie music"
Hussle that and you get parallels:
"make a little conversation" -> "quick pause in conversation"
"so long ive been waiting" -> "the world's happy waiting"
"so many nights I thought it over" -> "staring at the ceiling"
"told myself I kinda liked her" -> "hear jenny saying" / "(she plays song I've never heard,) an old lovers hippie music" this is a bit of a brain twist I'll get back to it.
"so hot that I couldn't take it" -> "so hard to leave it“ (which is either the same or the opposite depending on how wanna look at Home's message)
"want to wake up and see your face" / "see the smile as it starts to creep in" (context in home is waking up in the morning looking into each others eyes) -> "you gotta see it to believe it" (context is "sky never looked so blue" so then lemme just bring in "I get so lost inside your eyes, would you believe it?" - Adore You. blue skies blue eyes same same)
"still high with a little feeling" -> "carry the feeling"
Look at that. LOOK. AT. THAT. Listen to it. (Playlist of all songs mentioned in this post here) Listen to how all these lines are sung exactly the same, and like that's not enough they're same words same contexts same same!?
Also wanna just bring in the brainfarts happening over at me trying to find peace not having these parallels haunt me constantly which I try to resolve by making these silly little highlighter central mad professor's insane scribbles on a whiteboard except I'm not a professor and it's Harry's insanity and this is made in powerpoint:
There's a whole B side to this post coming ~Joni Mitchell parallels~ after more home parallel rambles below the cut:
To me the "Told myself I kind of liked her" in Home is one of the most important lines. In either case, but especially in the case of it possibly being very literal. That Louis possibly tried to convince himself that he did like her (E), and so he had a period where he was truly considering not being with whom makes him feel alive le curly boy, I mean it's right there in the above lines, although I'd like to think he talked about women in general, and not about recent feelings but rather the whole part where you are a kid realising you're not straight and well the whole song the whole song is a gift to anyone who has been there. That either way this line to me encapsulates that fear of what if you decide we're not enough to the curly boy "you" in question.
Then with that we can go back to possible intentional parallels, as Harry not once but twice in different contexts in Canyon Moon writes he's currently not home (implied that the time under the canyon moon is home), and while he's thinking back to that time of being home, he hears a girl talking: "I heard jenny saying" (I'd also like to think that it perhaps was "I heard her saying' at first and then they wrote Kid's fam into it, not based anything really, just, possible.) and then again in the last verse "she plays songs I've never heard, an old lover's hippie music, pretends not to know the words" which I take as a huge crazy wordplay puzzle, because he's saying the "she" is doing something he doesn't know about (copy from here:) here I think he's using [not knowing the song she is playing] to describe something being off, not his jam, not his music, in the same waters as "but there was something missing in her eyes", he's just thinking back to a time under the Canyon Moon, just waiting to go home, so he describes being somewhere that's not home as songs being played he doesn't know. And I'm not done with that line yet as there's that sweet sweet keyword "pretend" drop, all these sneaky little "pretend" "lying" "trick" words just sprinkled into all kinda contexts everywhere, is he trying to tell us something?
But beyond that I think this hippie music verse is just fat thiccccc greasy juicy references to Joni Mitchel, so off we go to the second parallel:
Harry's driving me into the laurel canyon with this. It's absolutely not any new info that Harry loves Joni Mitchell and would take inspiration from music he loves but I just took a tumble and feel like I am still just barely scratching the surface here. In terms of sound I don't wanna say too much here because I am no expert, not anywhere near, so whatever I would say wouldn't do whatever he's got going on any justice, but Canyon Moon is very clearly a Joni Mitchell fanpiece. And yeah probably not just Joni Mitchell and Home, there's for sure other influences in there too, but she's there alright. You don't need trained ears for that. And then there's that bit where the song's called Canyon Moon. What canyon? I'd place my bets on the Laurel Canyon. Not because I wanna yell about laurels although I always wanna yell about laurels but because of its link with an old lover's hippie music from the Laurel Canyon and Ladies of the Canyon's Joni Mitchell.
Also mentioning the part where he's described being obsessed with Blue as being "in a big Joni hole" (meanwhile I'm in a Harry(&Louis) hole and just getting sucked into the holes they get sucked into someone send help), and of course that tweet which is a lyric form My Old Man from the album Blue:
Tracklist of Blue:
Canyon Moon most closely resembles Carey you know the song Carey there snuggled between Little Green and Blue because god forbid we leave the poor bluegreeners alone for a second.
When considering possible inspirations for FL it's the entire album here, and take Ladies of the Canyon down with it as well while we're at it, but still I wanna highlight Carey the most:
And I just want to point out that of this album he's so obsessed with, Blue, is in itself doing this whole trick with colors (blue, green, black, silver and white), with the color blue (mostly used to describe loneliness) mentioned in all songs on side 1 with the only exception being Carey. Fun fact, I guess. Skies never looked so blue, doors yellow broken blue, all that. As for other parallels with this album and Fine Line, there's loads, perhaps California being second closest to Canyon Moon, and also this recurrent mention of café's (and the way it's mentioned [like in relation to a relationship going (not) well and (not) meeting there kinda thing] just makes me think of the beachwood café line). Then in terms of sound I'd say Canyon Moon comes close to Carey (yep again) and Big Yellow Taxi, which Harry covered of course.
And last last I also just wanna point out the part where that 2013 tweet already showed Harry's been obsessed with this Blue album for years and years, so there might be inspired sprinkles extending places I haven't noticed whatsoever and this is just a tiny fraction of whatever's been coming out of the Joni hole for years, who knows maybe Home was already Joni Mitchell inspired.
Byebye I'm off having a breakdown over listening to Blue and Conversation in the context of Harry listening to them thank you very much.
A playlist for all the songs mentioned in this post, but please do get as obsessed with this album as Harry has and just listen to the whole thing top to bottom, anyway:
Just to say that I see it differently - you can’t help who you’re surrounded by. Harry is a multi millionaire who doesn’t *have* to raise his profile and make heaps more money. He could be more low key, like Zayn. He could take a more relaxed approach, like Niall. He chooses not to. He chooses to put himself out there. And I just think ... why? If he’s really so restricted and miserable, why did he go from Syco/MM to Jeff & let this whole thing keep playing out for another 5 years?
Harry wasn’t given a choice in 1D. He was made Harry Styles TM. And he’s not about to abandon his career and his potential just because he hates being closeted. He’s very clearly fighting to get to do things like say “I’m gay” on stage and wear dresses and pearls and nail polish. You have to work very, very hard to do all of that without tanking your career.
And it is more important than just making money. It’s a legacy. It’s Harry relying on Bowie and Prince and George Michael’s footsteps and taking it a step further so next time, the kid that would be Harry Styles TM can just be an out gay kid and make the art he wants to make instead of dealing with all the bullshit that has held Harry back and forced him down this path.
Like I said in the tags, with Harry, money isn’t just money. Money is opportunity. Money is the photoshoots you get to do, the albums you get to make, the tours you get to play. He’s not greedy, he’s ambitious. And his ambition is taking him places Niall and Zayn haven’t gone. I won’t malign them for doing things their way or delve into why their careers have gone the way they have, while Harry is Harry. But to say Harry ought to play it like them is absurd. Harry is in a very different position.
The number of people in the public eye who’ve gotten to do these things:
coming from Harry’s position in 1d, without losing their reputation, career, and becoming a laughing stock?
is Harry Styles.
Because he has the ambition and the good fortune to exist in the present cultural moment. What he’s chasing is freedom - personal and artistic. And that doesn’t come easy.
Harry and Louis curled up on a couch, surrounded by their families, warmed by a fire, watching a Christmas movie while snow is steadily falling outside = perfection
roadtrips are my favorite thing. imagine Harry driving with his hand holding Louis', singing Fleetwood Mac and Arctic Monkeys together, just smiling and basking in each other's company for hours on end uninterrupted
I make up cute alternate universe stories about Harry and Louis in my head to fall asleep at night, like them as college students or famous footie players
Quick observation. There's this video from 2013 in which Niall congratulates Louis for signing w the Doncaster football team. Then he mentions that he's looking forward to seeing Tomlinson #28 on the back of each programme and that's when Louis glances at Harry and wiggles his eyebrows. So idk what it is about 28, going back all these years. I'm genuinely not one who assumes it's Larry related, but it's obviously important to Louis. youtube(.)com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u0yMgeZEZMg @4:20
I don’t know if anyone talked about it, but it’s definitely interesting heh
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