What songs out of new album by Florence + The Machine Everybody Scream do you like the most and why? 🤍 (yeah, I had to wrote the full thing cause it felt so cool idk 😂)
sorry for taking so long to answer, i was just really busy recently and wanted to answer properly
so. i really really love this album and i really really love this question!!! i needed some time with the album to decide what i liked the most and especially why but now i know (though it might obviously change!)
so in no particular order:
1. everybody scream
i absolutely love this and can't wait to scream it at the concert!!! i love how witchy it sounds and i especially love the screams!!!
here, I can take up the whole of the sky / unfurling, becoming my full size
and
but how can I leave you when you're screaming my name?
2. one of the greats
oh what a song!!!! i absolutely adore songs that feel like someone just had something on their chest and they tell/sing it all and then they're like "what's more" and they add more stuff. and this song is exactly it!
I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh / and my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
I'll be up there with the man and the 10 other women and the 100 greatest records of all time / it must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can / now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, you're my second favourite front man / and you could have me if you weren't so afraid of me / it's funny how men don't find power very sexy / so this one's for the ladies / do I drive you crazy? / did I get it right?
too feminine to function / a pile of bodies and a trail of destruction / I will let the light in / I will let some love in / I will be happy / it will be perfect
3. witch dance
i love how witchy this song sounds!!! and the visuals she's describing are so haunting!
women said, "we've been waiting / waiting to meet you, it's only a matter of time"
a shimmering landscape, I widen my eyes / can I keep all this beauty forever inside?
4. sympathy magic
i love how it's "sympathy magic" because florence misheard or misremembered "sympathetic magic" lmao
anyway, i love how it's saying that being good is not a solution to any problems. and the magical sounds and the screams "what else? what else? what else? what else?"
also if you haven't seen the music video, then definitely do that!!!
I do not find worthiness a virtue / I no longer try to be good / it didn't keep me safe / like you told me that it would
the only god that I know / and it does not want me on my knees to believe
5. perfume and milk
i love the guitar sounds on this!! i love the "dark" guitar, it sounds soooo cool!
trying to read, but getting distracted / trying to live, but feeling so damaged
miracles are often inconvenient
clothes of silk and satin, lace and leather / the one pink ribbon that holds me together
well, healing is slow, it comes and it goes / a glimpse of the sun then a flurry of snow
6. buckle
this song is so fucking sad and she's singing it like it's nothing. like every single lyric has me screaming "red flag leave him red flag LEAVE HIM OMG YOU DESERVE ALL THE BEST!! RED FLAG RED FLAG RED FLAG" but it's also a fucking good song! the chattiness of "one of the greats" but more sad than angry this time!
a crowd of thousands came to see me, and you couldn't reply for three days / 'cause I'm stupid and I'm damaged, and you're a disaster
you make me think my therapy is a waste of money / drinking it down, haunting your city / falling for anyone awful who tells me I'm pretty / I blocked your number, but you didn't notice
7. kraken
the first verse is for anyone in love or just besties with an actor! i also like the screams!!!
sometimes my body seems so alien to me / I quiet it down by watching tv
you come onscreen / so good-looking it's obscene / I put my fist into my mouth and scream
did you know how big I would become? / and how much I would eat?
you said I would be nothing, but look, I'm really something
8. the old religion
piano song!!! my fave!!! such a sad song and also really relatable! and the way it builds the tension!!! ahhhhh!!!! soooo good!!!!
so tired of being careful, so tired of being still / give me something I can crush, something I can kill
but you can't outrun yourself, you'll see / and I'm powerless, oh, don't remind me
and it's your troubled hero back for season six / when it's at its darkest, it's my favourite bit
9. drink deep
i like the begginning sounds, it sounds so cool!! also her voice in this song is soooo deep and so beautiful!!!
what I thought was a night was a thousand years / what I thought was a sip was a thousand tears
10. music by men
this is another deeply sad and concerning song, why do beautiful and ambitious and fun women date such bad douchbag men?????????
i love the guitar sounds here! and her voice is so calm even though she's telling us some disturbing stuff!
I don't wanna be afraid anymore / I don't wanna run from love like I had before
'cause I know how to fall in love, I do it constantly / I fall in love with everyone I meet for ten minutes at least
I always thought I was nice, I thought I was kind / 'til I tried to do something that was almost real life / it's not like what I've seen in tv shows / it's not like what I've read in books / it's so much harder than it looks / and there isn't much applause
let there be love, let there be light / let there be a quiet day and an easy night / let me put out a record and have it not ruin my life / let it be us, let it be home / let it not be a spotlight standing alone / running back to the only love I could ever control
11. you can have it all
this is yet another sad song that makes me cry. but it's also a fucking great song! so haunting! so devastating! and the ending!!!! i looooooove the guitars and drums!!!!
I used to think I knew what sadness was / I was wrong
a piece of flesh, a million pounds / am I a woman now?
I stay in the house, move the furniture about / try and control what I can / and feel the world slip through my hand
12. and love
this is so calming after the sadness and despair in you can have it all, i love the magical sounds!! is peace coming though?
and love was not what I thought it was
more like surrendering to something / and more like resting than running
okay, yes, it was all the songs, so my top choices just for you:
you can have it all
one of the greats
perfume and milk
the old religion
symphaty magic
i hope this long answer is satisfying to you! thanks again for asking!!!
