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i spent so many years forgetting i had teeth ... blush, a playlist.

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dusk by chelsea wolfe - this is the aliceashton eyho theme song, if you even care. also my top song on spotify last year, if i remember correctly (it's definitely on the list, if not the top song). anyways, i feel like this is a song about devotion; being so intrinsically tied to another person that you'll follow them into a fire (into death). that devotion being so intense that it's almost impossible to stomach, it's overwhelming. it's borderline destructive. (example, the lines: "can you contain my love? / call me back together.") eyho aliceashton to me just feels more intense than what we usually do in every other verse, so it feels on brand for them.

afraid of heights by boygenius - well. obviously, i have to include a song from the boys when i talk about alice. to me, it's about being taken advantage of for sharing your vulnerability with someone. ("i know that i fucked up when i / told you i'm afraid of heights.") it's about being around a deeply damaged person and being dragged down with them as they try to destroy themselves. this is an aliceroy song so i won't go into too much detail.

girls like you by the naked and the famous - self explanatory from the get-go ("don't you know people write songs about girls like you?"). alice is someone who is easily romanticized by others, but that same romanticization is also self-inflicted too. despite being very surface-level cynical, i do think alice is an idealist, but not necessarily in a healthy way. she sets up expectations for herself to be the sort of girl people would write about, she wants to be memorable after she dies, even if it's not necessarily for good reasons. her sense of value is very much dependent on how people perceive her. ("how could you dance if no-one was watching / and you couldn't even get off the floor?") she makes herself emotionally inaccessible, not just because she is, but also because she wants people to wonder about her. ("and your heart is a stone / buried underneath your pretty clothes.") she doesn't want to give all of herself away, she wants there to always be this wall between herself and other people so they can keep on romanticizing her. when you get to a certain level of attention, you start making a myth of yourself. she doesn't know how to cope with the idea of being "normal" or forgotten about or not being wanted in some way, so she has to be memorable. ("how would you feel if nobody chased you? / what if it happened tonight?")

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don't delete the kisses by wolf alice - i lied in my last post. THIS is The Song Of All Time. it's another song about yearning, which you all know i love. more specifically, it's about yearning for and wanting love, but feeling like it's something you're not supposed to have because you don't deserve it or you're so scared of it. (example, the line: "what if it's not meant for me?"). it's about self-sabotaging your chance at love for those reasons. ("and here's the night bus, i have to go / and the doors are closing, and you were waving / and i like you, and i'll never let it show.") it's very much the aliceadam theme song from an alice perspective.

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basically just stealing songs from my alice playlist for this. because i might as well make this about her. here we go.

headspace by sharon van etten - this song is about intimacy to me. like yes, it is about sex, i'm pretty sure. but i feel like it's more about seeking something deeper through sex. (example, the lines: "i wanted to feel ageless / i wanted to be here") there's a desperation to it, with how repetitive the chorus is. this song is about seeing yourself through someone else's eyes during moment of intimacy and vulnerability, desperately trying to make sense of your identity through someone else. (does this make sense? no? okay, hope this helps.) also it's the song that i find the second most influential to what alice's music sounds like in my head. the first of which is in fact our next song.

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partner in crime by lucy dacus (spotify singles version) - this is less what alice's music sounds like and more like what her lyrics are, i guess? it's very much about yearning, particularly at a young age, and wanting something that might you might not be ready/mature enough for. the lyrics really paint the scene cinematically, it almost feels like the narrator is naively romanticizing their own situation. that's something that's heavily featured in alice's lyrics because she was writing at such a young age. (example, the lines: "do you love me, do you love me not" almost suggest a childishness.) she was romanticizing her situations while they were happening to her, she still romanticizes her situations on reflection because it's easier than admitting they were traumatic or negative in any way.

glory box by portishead - literally The Song Of All Time, in my opinion. i imagine alice did a cover of this at some point and that lives in my mind rent free. this song is also about sex, i guess. i mean, it is and it isn't. correction: i think it's about a sexual dynamic, with the woman in the relationship trying to gain some agency and ownership over her body. which again, is another recurring theme here at crushsung dot tumblr dot com. anyways, this song is sort of considered a feminist anthem, which i suppose it is if you want to interpret it that way. but in the case where we are applying this song to alice, i think it's less about like "women deserve bodily autonomy and authority in a relationship with a man" and more about like "i will not let anyone else take my body away from me". classic trauma response. i probably have more to say about this song both as its own piece and in relation to alice, but this post is getting way too long.

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