[twopoppies]

Has anyone else noticed that Harry doesn’t sing “and I know that you’re scared because I’m so open” when he sings Golden? I’ve noticed it 3 different times. I haven’t watched every single time he sang it but the 3 times I did, he held the mic up for the fans to sing. 🧐

Because Louis isn’t scared anymore. ❤️

[poetryandpetals]

do you ever think about how when Louis got his number one album and posted that picture and Harry posted his number one single picture at the same time? And then antis said that it was totally not coordinated and that “harry would be posting his number one album pic eventually too”….but then harry never did…

i think about that a lot.

[crinkle-eyed-boo]

The caption from the photographer - every man really is instantly bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by Louis, amirite?

[crinkle-eyed-boo]

No, this photographer was in love with him.

[crinkle-eyed-boo]

THIS MAN IS DOWN BAD, CRYING AT THE GYM.

@gayscantslicetomatoes I feel like it’s time for him to get a letter from Harry?

[howdididisco]

same person btw

[lovrito]

A Flaunt Film | Louis Tomlinson

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

🧠 rent free 🧠

[latetothegamelarrie]

Maple syrup, coffee Pancakes for two Hash brown, egg yolk I will always love you

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

[youknowtheyfuckright]

You don’t get the love of your life 23 standard cupcakes at the last minute from a random bake shop. You get the love of your life a specially commissioned, tiered cake, and you make sure it has an edible figurine that looks just like him, except you make half of his clothes normal, and the other half a Power Rangers costume, because you know that he really is just a boy. A boy you so desperately adore. 

[emilarry]

Imagine being the subject of het engagement rumors, and then the day after your supposed fiancée shows up to a major event with no ring, you decide to drop a clip in which you’re obscenely licking phallic shaped object. Like……… that is a Choice

[gayscantslicetomatoes]

"AND THEN HE SITS THERE WITH THAT FUCKING BLINDING SMILE OF HIS AND THOSE OCEAN-BLUE EYES WHEN WE BOTH KNOW ABOUT THE SONGS HE JUST SHARED WITH THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD HOW I AM A COMPLICATED PERSON TO LIVE WITH. ME? I AM NOT COMPLICATED! JUST- JUST BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE NEED TO TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING! ALL HE EVER WANTS TO DO IS TALK! TALK! TALK! TALK! LET A GIRL GO ON A FUCKING RUN!"

(felt like this needed an HDIGH? update)

[berrystainedsue]

Harry went from doubting if Louis even wants him and having an identity crisis asking if he’s someone he personally even wants around to reassuring Louis in his own doubts about not being someone Harry wants here and that they’re maybe worth fighting more because they’re it for each other

🥲

.......ouch??

[cherryskies-harry]

loss of my life.

[crinkle-eyed-boo]

Do you ever sit down and think about how absolutely UNHINGED it was for Louis to put the line “it’s been ages, different stages, come so far from Princess Park” on his very first album?

[alarrylarrie]

Alright FINE let’s talk about Are You Listening Yet.

I want to preface this by saying some people get really weird about the idea of Harry and Louis fighting. I… do not share that. I don’t think they fight, I know they fight. If you have been with someone (especially all they have been through) even on and off for as many years as they have? There is no question they argue. Anyway.

I also think that once again Harry is using a mixed metaphor. I do think some of these are directed at a person. Sometimes I think that person is Louis. Sometimes I think it’s himself. And sometimes I think it’s his fans/the world (ie his fame).

I think it would be silly to ignore the direct parallel to Sanity. How many times in arguments with partners do people accuse each other of not listening? Louis in Sanity says “I know you’re mad at me, I don’t know what to say. If you’re not listening, then I’ll keep talking to myself”

And in AYLY Harry says “Oh, can you hear the voice, the one inside your head? Oh, are you listening yet?”

That is… a direct parallel. Actually it’s not even a parallel it’s a full ass conversation.

To me, that reads as though the voice inside the head is talking some sense, whereas whatever the person is saying out loud doesn’t match that.

Harry also says “Between your head and heart and somewhere else instead” and in that I think he’s talking about how the other person is using sex as a way to circumvent communication with their partner. By that, and not to be crass lol, but I think “somewhere else instead” is referring to a dick. There’s a funny saying that men have a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time. And I think that’s what Harry is playing on here.

Now. When he says “your therapist well fed” I think it’s resentful. Because this person is clearly talking to a therapist but not actually addressing the issues they’re dealing with. Using sex to dodge it, but also not talking to their friends “ignoring all of your friends at the end of their rope”. There is a STRONG exasperation throughout the song. And this person is probably feeling trapped. Backed into a corner.

(Also I think the “she” Harry is referring to is actually him. I think he flips the pronouns to disguise it. Either that, or he’s referring to the person not listening to their therapist. I also think this song segues nicely into Taste Back because he says “you’ve had your tummy tickled” which is basically like, okay, you got off, now what?)

Outside of the argument I very much think this is lol, I do think there is a thread that Harry weaves here about his own exasperation with his own experience as a closeted queer person.

Specifically, I think “taking up arms but the message is wet” might refer to how he fights to be seen but can’t like, push too much?

I assume because of patient confidentiality that Harry has disclosed that he is closeted to his therapist- so I think those lines fit as well. And the idea of “this world is screaming so you start to scream right back” could also suggest that people keep telling him who he is- he feels like he has to scream back. In this same vein- I think the “between your head and heart and somewhere else instead” could be referencing what people think, what they believe, and what they hear elsewhere.

“You’ve had your tummy tickled”, “this unpredictable fun is fun if you know how” and “if you join a movement” could reference people thinking what they want (specifically fandom who see his coding). And “which thoughts you’ve had on your own” could be in that respect too, though I think that specifically is referring to Harry himself and not letting outside pressure determine what he knows to be true of himself.

Lastly I’ll just say that the repetition of Are You Listening Yet is very pointed, and sonically the song escalates. The “la la la’s” at the end feel like a taunt. Like when someone covers their ears and says “la la la I CAN’T HEAR YOU”.

That feels very much like the person Harry is addressing is refusing to listen. Whether that be Louis, an inner part of Harry himself, or the fans who refuse to see him for who he truly is- I’m not sure. Might be all three with this one.

[skepticalarrie]

This has so many layers. I mean when we saw there’s a song called American Girls I think it was safe to assume it would somehow be attached to his stunts??? but oh he really showed this in a different interpretation

That’s why Harry is such an amazing artist oof honestly. I wish I had more time to unpack all of this but I really need to go back to work. But it’s exactly what you said about him layering so many meanings into things, where songs and music videos can be taken very literally on the surface, while they’re also disguised as something else and there’s this huge potential interpretation underneath.

I think the song alone already carries that heavy PR relationship interpretation you mentioned, kind of obvious. It’s like this whole career of repeating the same narrative with the same kind of “girlfriends” over and over again. The media and the public fall in love with the story every time, especially when it’s the american girlfriend trope.

Then the music video adds another layer to it. The whole stunt theme, Hollywood, people literally disguising themselves as him and performing stunts in his place. It feels like a metaphor for the spectacle around him. The public performance of a narrative, the doubles, the acting, the illusion of what people think is him versus what is actually him. So on the surface it can just look like a playful Hollywood/fame concept, which I’m sure it also is. but when you connect it with the theme of “American girls” and the pattern of relationships that have always been so public and media driven... it suddenly feels way more layered. He’s acknowledging the machinery around him without ever stating it directly, as always.

[palestinalibre]

He really has an impressive ability to say too many words and say absolutely nothing and everything at the same time

[neverforpickles]

louis on harry: yes yes harry is everything, he’s taken over the world. he’s the best thing ever. we all knew that. he makes great music. he’s charismatic and is very talented and has the best voice and really knows what he’s doing. never doubted it for a second. he’s a star. brighter than northern star. the sun. the moon. he’s everything. and i’m proud of him. and i love him. have you seen him? he’s beautiful and amazing and hot. he’s got a great body and incredible voice. he also has dimples and curls. i always knew everyone will love him too. like i do.

louis on niall: he’s irish. good lad