can you / have you done a lyric analysis on girl almighty like i just DONT UNDERSTAND IT
Ah yay Girl Almighty!
Okay BUCKLE UP again, this is a wild ride because uh I managed to make it sad and gay. On the surface this song reads as a fun bop that is celebrating a big personality bubbly good girl but with a bunch of oddly specific wait what lines. With songs like these I tend to think it's not what it looks like at all, can't help but try to crack them, to dig (myself) deeper and deeper (in a hole) until I have come up with an interpretation that makes enough sense to me that I can finally stop letting it haunt me. So that said, and thanks for this anon <3, naturally this question broke me.
First of all there is one other 1D song that parallels this song, which is More Than This:
(hold on I'm not done)
Now I don't think these songs relate in the sense that they're the exact same story (that the you is the same you and all that), these parallels might very well be coincidental as nearly all of it is quite generic, but let's quickly describe More Than This: there is the singer, a "you" and a "he". The singer can't stand that the one they love (you) is with another person (he), and there seems to be cheating involved, a theme seen more often in 1D songs as well as in their solo music later on, especially Harry's. And I don't think that's because there's actual cheating happening, but in case of H because his lover publicly pretends to be with someone else. I know I know More Than This is just a little pop song meant as exactly that and not much more, I don't think More Than This was written with whatever relationships the boys had at the time in mind, (here's the songwriter saying he wrote it in 30 mins in 2010) BUT, you CAN interpret it in such a way. You CAN care enough about your (being the songwriter) or the boy's interpretation of it to use it as a baseline to write Girl Almighty years down the line.
Back to the parallels, although this unfortunately doesn't clarify any of the oddly specific lines, and nearly all of the parallels are of generic phrases/words, something interesting does happen in both songs with being seen vs being heard:
More than this: If I'm louder, would you see me.
More than this again: Do you hear me, I'm blinded cause you are everything I see
Girl Almighty: Her light is as loud as many ambulances(meant to alert either senses)
(this also made me think of Niall's Mirrors, which I'm sorry but you can't tell me that sont isn't about Harry, if you can't see that I'd be happy to clarify, "She looks into her mirror, wishing someone could hear her, so loud")
Also there is a religious theme, or at least it being used as an analogy:
More Than This: "praying/on my knees", "see the light"
Girl Almighty: "almighty", "saviour", "pray/get down on my knees", "made out of lightning", "believer",
as well as a sense of mortality which I guess falls under the same umbrella:
More Than This: "I might just die inside", "broken", "rescue me/save me" "my body fails"
Girl Almighty: "ambulances", "stay young", "save a saviour"
Ok but this doesn't resolve what Girl Almighty is about. And I wanna try something fun.... Can we make this gay?
I think we can. I know neither songs are written by any of the boys, and again I don't think More Than This is written with any of them in mind, but Girl Almighty could be?
There's a bunch of gay oneliners in More Than This: "I"m dancing alone" "It just dont/won't feel right" "cause we are the same" "In his arms I get weak" (I know I'm pulling that last one out of context LOL; not to mention Harry&Louis singing "women just don't feel right" lololol)
As well as in Girl Almighty: "Some say she's such a fake, that her love is made up" (about fake public relationships), "I get down on my knees for you" (whatyagonnado down there ahem)
Also ofcouse you can make More Than This gay very easily by just switching up the "he" for a "she" and tahdah,
but the interesting thing for Girl Almighty is that you don't even have to, it's already there:
There is the singer ("I"), a "she", a "we", a "you". If you isolate what the singer has to say about them:
She:
Her light is as loud as many ambulances as it takes to save a savior
She floats through the room on a big balloon
Some say she's such a fake, that her love is made up
Let's have another toast to the girl almighty
We:
Let's pray we stay young, stay made out of lightning
You:
I hope you feel what I'm feeling too
I get down on my knees for you
What the singer is feeling, which is believing, feeling, getting down on knees is all directed at the "you". Now the "she" and the "you" can be the same person, sure, but let's just go with the assumption they're not. Then the singer doesn't feel anything towards the "she" other than be willing to have a toast to her. On the surface this means to honour/celebrate them, however "let's have another toast" could also mean to have another drink. It could mean I need a drink because this girl[unaffectionate] is here, being loud, floating through the room on a bigass balloon (why a big baloon? something that's blown up? blown out of proportion? something that can burst? just something taking up all the space?), this girl is fking everywhere and I can't escape it, I need to cope, gimme another drink so I can handle this. (Like "we'll get the drinks in so I get to thinking of her" in Fine Line.)
So what if this is meant towards a girl that the "I" can't stand? Welp, then the line "some say she's such a fake, that her love is made up" starts making sense as it's an indication of people disliking her, perhaps for good reason. Then it also suddenly makes sense as the "she" being someone's beard as this sentence is just an elaborate way to say "fake love" really. And then "Let's pray we stay young, stay made out of lightning" can be interpreted as I hope this bullshit isn't gonna eat us up.
This all circles back to More Than This, where seeing the one you love, the one you get on your knees for, with someone else, and needing to cope with that sight, needing to be saved from that situation, but instead in Girl Almighty, they're just kinda sitting there in the middle of that situation, coping by drinking, but would you believe it, or am I the only believer, am I the only one seeing it for what it is, that it isn't what it looks like, there's something happening here, I hope you're feeling what I'm feeling, that we're the gaysame, cause you save me, you're the savior, oh and also I get down on my knees for you lol innuendos lol.
I'm this close to moving on with my life but then there's still the "Her light is as loud as many ambulances as it takes to save a savior" and seeing the parallel with More Than This, where the fitting lyrics go "you save me"...
...so she's all we can see, trying so hard to have what it takes to save this savior? This savior being the "you"? So... she's putting on a big show to cover for the savior? Or... her light is being compared to all the noise necessary to save the person who is saving others? Or this sentence is just not meant to make sense? Or a reference to something? Maybe yes maybe no? Is the answer 28? Is Olivia even a person? The BRAINPAYNE.
Oh whoa whoa whoa indeed.
For more like this: Love You Goodbye - Perfect Now - a Sunflower Vol 6 rabbit hole - Vibez
Bruno and Prosciutto should be in the "unnecessarily time consuming hair styles" club. I can just imagine them in the mirror, frustrated with the part they have going. Nothing will cooperate, and everything is uneven.
My therapist: so they called you names, made fun of you, didn't stop when you told them too, shut you out, treated you like shit and everytime you spoke out about it people said that they aren't like that "in person" and that you just didn't know them?
Me: yes
My therapist: and you believe this is why you have a hard time making friends and staying in contact with your old ones?
Me: pretty much, yes
My therapist: ...seems like some unresolved trauma
