Aug 11, 2017
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i can’t believe he turned my diary into a song
i will be gone before the rise of the oceans, i will become a squiggle in a string of quotients
"I don't make promises i can't keep. That's why I don't make promises ever."
I wish I’d met you on Legends of the Hidden Temple, I wish Hegel wasn’t so incomprehensible.
I LOVE re-contextualization I've been listening to Milo And he has used really meaningful methods of re-contextualization Most specifically he has a song called Folk-Metaphysics The themes of the song center around truth, and the inability to connect with people and this lack of connection being due to a lack of being able to commit to anything. As well as themes of just insignificance. This is best embodied in the line: I don't make promises I can't keep, which is why I won't make promises ever He samples a line from the song "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers. "Come on try a little Nothing is forever It's got to be something better than in the middle Me & Cinderella, put it all together We can drive it home (With one headlight)" The Wallflower song by and large is about attempting to change who and what we are. Taking risks and being who we need to be for ourselves. Milo reappropriates this line and adds a dark tone coupled with an unsettling harmony, and I think, uses it to paint a picture of a person who wants to change... but cannot. In a sense the line speaks to the countless people who listened to the Wallflowers song and thought, I can change. It juxaposes this around a portrait of a man who can't, and doesn't want to. This re-contextualization completely changed the wallflowers song for me. It turns it from a sweet story of escape into a dark look into what it means to fail, and how we are destined to be felled by our own bias. The Wallflowers suppose we can escape with one headlight while Milo supposes that we are all our past mistakes and our future ones. He ends using The Wallflowers quote again. Maybe to say that if we recognize these mistakes we can become better than them. Or maybe to say we are this way because of our weakness. "We can drive it with weak contrivance"
