Sumumn

Sumumn: a portmanteau used to describe the particular feeling of Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane...I talk about Switchfoot a lot, but might spice it up with some other stuff. Like the rest of us, I have no clue what I'm doing. (she/her)

[lyssq]

Finished A Chorus of Dragons and it's a very good series however instead of putting my thoughts into anything coherent I made memes

[snydergurl]

Cover version of "Meant to Live" will feature on the band's The Beautiful Letdown (Or Version) deluxe edition, alongside Jonas Brothers, Owl City covers - RollingStone [X]

Hear Jon Bellion Transform Switchfoot’s Millennial Grunge Angst into Orchestral Pop

[madison-the-geek]

The absolute war I'm always at with myself between OK, which looks so ugly but makes sense because it's an acronym, and okay, which looks so much better but makes no sense.

[madison-the-geek]

Absolutely love when character teams/groups are all trying to figure out who likes who and how they work together in relationships, and then the ace character's like, " 'sup."

[snazzystarlight]

This came out nice! This is “The Hard Way” by Switchfoot as I see it because of synesthesia!

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[madison-the-geek]

Having a "questioning my asexuality moment for no reason" while drinking tea out of my new ace cup is definitely ironic.

[madison-the-geek]

2 years ago today

[madison-the-geek]

“Well that makes sense. If there are people who are sexually attracted to others, there must be people who aren’t.”

- a very kind and rational person after I explained asexuality to them

[madison-the-geek]

Friendly reminder for this Ace Week, don’t exclude, ignore, and forget ace folk. If you’re straight, don’t do it. If you’re queer, don’t do it. Too many times are we silenced in societies and communities.

Understand and embrace the diversity of humanity.

Remember us when you speak of humanity, sexual orientation, sexuality and lack of sexuality, and love.

Remember that your situations and experiences aren’t the only ones.

Remember we can all learn something valuable by listening and not ignoring.

I’m tired of talking about inclusion and diversity but excluding ace folks.

We are people. We have voices.

[svvitchfoot]

Amateur Lovers

Hear me out: Amateur Lovers is specifically an aromantic/asexual experience. Don’t come at me, I’m aroace.

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[madison-the-geek]

I love this analysis.

Obviously, this song works really well for aro and ace identities, but I think it also works well for the general queer experience. We all suck at loving each other and, more importantly, at loving people different from who we are and what we know.

"We don't know what we're doing. Let's do it again." Has always been a very scornful comment to me. We all just keep doing the same things and getting absolutely nowhere by seeing love as one concrete thing that we've decided it is rather than the beautiful hues that make it up and the amazing versions and experiences people have with it as their own.

"Every day we still try, every night we still cry." But in the end, love isn't only about what we want; it's about meeting people between their love and our own. We love to love, but we often don't even understand the meaning of it. We don't understand the work and the sacrifice it is. It's about understanding and caring about others. So here, we can love others for ourselves and have this disease of trying to get others to basically serve us, or we can embrace all the forms of love there are, and all the different versions we experience and others experience.

Life doesn't have to be one concrete pathway someone made for us. We can open up. And when we do, we can love others and ourselves better. See, somewhere along the way, I think those lines, "We don't know what we're going, let's do it again" shift to ask us to try over and over because it is about the try, as long as you adjust what's wrong and keep going.

This translates back to the aro and ace experiences because people often believe there isn't love in a romantic relationship without sex or sexual attraction, or there isn't love without romantic attraction. But this is wrong. Because this denies what love is and how everyone experiences it. It is beautiful and varying and not this one thing. And this is why I love this song and love switchfoot because they taught me that I don't have to subscribe to this prescribed, unmoving, and claustrophobic heteronormative idea of love. That how I experience it is just as valid as the ways others experience it. It's the beautiful care and sacrifice of love.

[svvitchfoot]

Awakening

I don’t have an intro for this song, it’s just. It’s queer, ya know?

Awakening rests on this central theme of waking up to your life, not letting life happen to you but taking an active role in shaping your life. And what’s more of an awakening than recognizing your own queerness?

Awakening involves a shift in perspective, learning something new about yourself and the world we live in.

Awakening is embracing this world outside of your lived experience and expanding your horizons.

Awakening is breaking out of a black and white world for a reality made up of so much color and wonder.

And an awakening is scary, don’t get me wrong. It can feel like you’ve suddenly got the ground yanked out from under you. But the key to making an awakening a good experience is to embrace that fear, and embracing learning something new. There’s a whole bunch of people who have gone before you and know what you’re going through. Awakening is a scary, beautiful, exciting process.

[madison-the-geek]

“Breaking out of a black and white world for a reality made up of so much color and wonder” made me think of the album cover. I had never thought about this before. Is this why the cover is in black and white?? Holy shit.

I like how the song suggests there's simply no other way to go besides being yourself. The first and second verses demonstrate this, as everything has been strangling the narrator, and the dream simply demands to be born.

Life is utter chaos, and the true way we battle this chaos is both in accepting it and in accepting ourselves. Awakening is this celebration above any pain that life was before it. Being yourself is how you fight back against it all.

[svvitchfoot]

with So, one of the things that I said in the original paper that could be expanded upon was the yeah count on the B-sides/bonus tracks/EPs. After tracking some stuff down, I finally put together a full list of all the Officially Released Songs, and. counted the yeahs.

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[madison-the-geek]

So even with the bonus songs, Tim’s ‽ estimate was still wrong lol.

I’ve been waiting for your count on eastern hymns though. Knew connect with the spine would be up there

[svvitchfoot]

at least half that song is just the word yeah and i have questions for jon

[madison-the-geek]

He was really stretching his lyric-writing muscles, lol.

I absolutely, without a doubt, love that song

[svvitchfoot]

with So, one of the things that I said in the original paper that could be expanded upon was the yeah count on the B-sides/bonus tracks/EPs. After tracking some stuff down, I finally put together a full list of all the Officially Released Songs, and. counted the yeahs.

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[madison-the-geek]

So even with the bonus songs, Tim’s ‽ estimate was still wrong lol.

I’ve been waiting for your count on eastern hymns though. Knew connect with the spine would be up there

[svvitchfoot]

Almost two years ago, in October of 2020, a fan asked how many yeahs would be on the then-unnamed interrobang album, and Tim jokingly responded that there would be 31-34 yeahs on the album. And thus, the Yeah Count/Switchfoot Statistics project was born (as was my friendship with @madison-the-geek).

Well, interrobang has been out for a little over a year at this point, but I never got around to posting them here (i think). So, was interrobang able to reach Tim’s joke goal? Where does interrobang fall on the overall list of Switchfoot albums?

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[madison-the-geek]

Certainly the best project I’ve ever helped with ❤️

[svvitchfoot]

All I Need

I’ll almost definitely say this at multiple points during the course of this whole queer analysis project, but I love All I Need. It’s a fantastic song in it’s own right, and the intro trio of Let It Happen/Native Tongue/All I Need is probably my favorite set of intro songs.

A lot of the songs on the playlist are there because I kinda went “yeah that’s queer” and now I’m attempting to put things into words.

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[madison-the-geek]

Wow. “we as individuals want to be recognized as part of our communities but also, we want the community to claim us, if that makes sense?” Makes 100% sense. It’s so true. There needs to be a give and take of any relationship, even if that’s between multiple people in a community.

This is why I love Switchfoot. They constantly pull of these foundational elements of humanity, of wanting and longing to belong and to find and fit in your identity.

Queerness is not freeing because it makes life easy (I wish), but because it’s a foundational element to embracing identity and belonging in the purest form of one self. To be free is to no longer be confined. And though, sadly, in our world, queer people are confined, in accepting that queerness, there’s a freedom from the confinement that we hold ourselves in.

Truly, this song is freedom and acceptance. Although I know this is a queer analysis, it really just fits so well into the narrative of Native Tongue to have this beginning of reminding us to love ourselves for exactly who we are and no one else, that is freedom.

I basically just restated everything you said in order to note how much I agree. But this is one of those songs that I don’t really think about until it hits me suddenly with its beauty, and this post reminded me of that.

P.S. I absolutely hate “one twisting rope,” and always without a doubt sing it “one twisting road” just because I can lol

[svvitchfoot]

a reaction meme for when your bro says something incredibly far out of left field and you need a moment to process and also 120% more context

potentially also: @madison-the-geek’s reaction to my initial proposal for a scientific paper about switchfoot yeahs

[svvitchfoot]

Afterlife

To me, the core of queerness to Afterlife comes from the chorus: “And I wonder/Why would I wait ‘til I die to come alive?”

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[madison-the-geek]

It’s hard to pick, but this is one of my favorites on the queer playlist. Definitely after Easier than Love though.