Yourself: (points directly at Boyfriend while singing his soul out) 69.9% of people watching: omg he's singing about his GF :D Me, confused: /:|
(theoryposting and other stuff below the cut)
Mostly I just wanna say how much I believe Yourself's lyrical monologue is super obviously directed at Boyfriend.
The Point(tm):
The "Stay awake just long enough [...]" makes me think of the factoid about BF where he gets super bored playing horror games and almost fell asleep playing one, so that makes me think that Yourself is snidely, directly, mocking him about that.
He wants to tell him his story ("[...] To see my way"), "scary" as it is (a Boyfriend without a Girlfriend!? How'd that happen?? and thus the can of worms breaks open). He doesn't want to be alone; this is a man clearly at the end of his rope, wanting to be seen and heard by the one person he hopes will get it, but also comes off as lowkey terrified of Boyfriend brushing him off or turning on him or whatever. Hense why he's so aggressive about it (the song is so energetic I'm absolutely wasted mentally but it's keeping me up as I type). That, and maybe he's a bit pissed at BF for having a GF in the sense that it sucks cuz he doesn't and it happy for him but still like... dude. I'm hurtin so hard so you're gonna listen to it and tell me I did good and I'm being So Brave about it (he isn't). But on the other hand, kinda hiding his pain for the most part. But he's still kinda obvious. Maybe not to Boyfriend, who is too stupid to be scared of anything but thunder, but still. He's trying his best.
Even his cute little countdown in the beginning is like "3, 2, 1, here I come!" like he's putting Boyfriend on the spot to face him and he better brace himself. And going by the look on BF's face...
... He's pretty into it. At first he was confused or dare I say intrigued, but immediately jumped right in with him.
And, actually... Why's Boyfriend even there? In a dark building with weird mirrors everywhere? Without a Girlfriend in sight, no less, and looking so down in the dumps? Questions I don't mind not having straight answers to cuz bisexual answers are better.
I know the mic glows red before he picks it up in the intro (Herself's color) and we see a flash of a ghostly Herself figure behind him in the climactic bit at the end, but we don't know why the heck she's there, whether it's literal or metaphorical, so I don't wanna assume (just theorize lol). I mean, made a post already that it could be her spirit haunting him, so that's my hot take ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If it was a song leaning towards being about Herself instead, it kinda... falls a bit flat. Not like I have anything against her, I just don't see why he'd be singing to Boyfriend about his Girlfriend. Bro's literally bending over backwards trying to get his point across. Plus, why else do we talk to ourselves in the mirror?
Anyway. Yeah. Everything is blue dabu-dee-da-boo die (etc). I have other stuff I would say too about it but I'm literally too fried rn and that's the long and short of it anywayz.