#ghost ep

[chipdabesta]

sky ferreira - night time, my time (+ ghost EP) (2015)

[1111iza]

[dumb-n-blonde]

Everything and nothing always haunts me

[the555th]

Night time, My time

[bellafemme]

[kuromyou]

Papa III was happy (compared to Papa II) Part I

For this first part, I wanted to do a (hopefully) quick comparison of the album covers for the EPs released by Papa II and Papa III to get some insight into their personalities before going more in depth with Popestar.

First up is the EP, If You Have Ghost, by Papa Emeritus II (the song by song interpretation done previously).

The album art is based on the 1922 silent film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, which itself was inspired by Bram Stoker's book, Dracula. The cover features Papa as "Count Orlok" on a ship. In the movie, in far off Transylvania, Orlok wishes to buy a house across the street of beautiful young Ellen. He summons her husband to do the transaction. The husband realizes Orlok may be a vampire and sees him packing his coffin to meet his love interest, Ellen.

He is a sad and lonely figure with a tragic ending. He lives in a castle avoided by the locals. Plague follows him wherever he goes. And he drinks human blood. After finally meeting Ellen in person, he stays too long feeding on her. The sun rises and Orlok is turned to dust.

The band Ghost has used horror movie imagery before, this could be just another instance of that. But, by contrasting with Papa III's EP,

Next up is the EP Popestar, by Papa Emeritus III.

In this cover art, two anthropomorphic buildings across the street from each other are playing chess, a strategy game that involved moving pieces originally representing parts of a military with goal of capturing the King. The building on the left with the black chessmen sports horns and vertical pupil eyes, possibly representing the devil. The building on the right with the white pieces has a crown, potentially representing "god" and pupiless eyes that watches one of it's pawns get captured. Hmmm. Papa III himself stands atop a golden pillar in-between the buildings in his casual outfit a la Sweden's King Gustav III. His right hand is raised and holding a bright object, possibly the sun, with 5-pointed stars appearing to circle around it.

Overall, Papa III appears as the centerpiece of the cover art. He literally holds up the light overseeing a figurative battle of dark (evil/Satan) and light (god). This suggest he thinks rather highly of himself.

Additionally, the title of the EP, Popestar, is a play on the words "pop star" or a person "regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era". Thus, Papa is the arbiter of this battle between good and evil with a confidence and self esteem that contrasts what we saw with Papa II's EP cover art. Is it possible this is a facade and Papa III is also sad? Sure. But as we look into the EP itself, I believe the evidence will not support that idea.

Well, that was much longer than I expected it to be. Join me next time as I delve into why Popestar indicates Papa III was a happy person (and possibly the happiest Papa?).

[stupidocupido]

“I hope the guilt will dim and fade, the fire baptism engulfed in my shame”

She always smells like the sea; her skin made of sand and salt. Her hair is waving in the Sunday afternoon breeze, salty tears streak her sun kissed face. To him she is like the waves they like to ride. Wild, unpredictable and above all that beautiful. She loves the ocean more than she loves him; at least that is what he tells himself.

A Jonsa AU - read here 

part of ghost ep

[giselleamaris]