Obviously, I know in the Odyssey that it’s pretty much stated that Odysseus was sexually coerced. But did anyone else not see that being the case in “There Are Other Ways?”
From the clip Jay had posted of him and Tayla a while ago when we first hear a clip of the song, the whole thing sings pretty sexually charged. It reads more to me like she knows he hasn’t been physically fulfilled for a very long time and is praying on his human weaknesses.
If you watch the clip, she’s very clearly attempting to seduce him, and it appears to me that he is trying to fight it. That, combined with him, repeating the words “who’s to say with the mistakes I made that they’ll be the last mistakes I ever make”, and “Theres so much power.” He’s being seduced by her physically, and is drawn to the promise of power that she’s giving him.
And it’s him, resisting the temptation of desire and power that leads to Circe trusting him and agreeing to help
