#swim deep

[titanebaby]

thought this was a buddy comedy for ages until i actually watched it & cried for like 8 solid minutes <3

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

my inbox ate this ask, so

let's try again with a screenshot:

Hey dear anon,

I had seen this video about Harry in 2019 wearing Swim Deep's merch of their Emerald Classics album before. Let's talk about it!

What is definitely real is that he did wear that shirt (supposedly in 2019) and he's been acquainted (even friends?) with their bass player Cav for many years.

(source post)

Swim Deep were going to be "the opening act for [Harry's] postponed London tour dates."

We're talking about tour dates in April 2020, announced in February 2020.

Harry's pic with the shirt came out on Jan 29th, 2020, the band shared their Happy As Larrie song on that same day.

What is interesting is that they chose to link to that song, instead of the whole album. My immediate question was: well, maybe it was their latest single? No, it was not! They released Happy As Larrie as a single only months later, on May 6th, 2020. Inchresting.

In the later tweet they said they don't know what "dark larrie" means. True or not, we can only speculate (¬‿¬)

The next day, Swim Deep referenced Harry wearing their merch as "the king wore" it and shared a link to the restocked shirt.

(source by @bluewinnerangel)

It's to be expected that a band would use a publicity/rep push like that to link to their own music or merch, especially if the artist who reps is bigger, and extra-especially if said artist has been friendly with them since years. Also they must've already known they were soon going to be announced as opening acts for a few of Harry's shows in April of the same year.

Just as general info: "happy as Larry / happy as a Larry" is a usual british english saying for 'extremely happy'. And there are other songs with that title, i.e. this one released in 2022.

(source)

Now, their song is called Happy as Larrie, of course.

The things with the other song 0121 Desire and the parallels to his own lyrics and the tracks being 2 + 8 are definitely cool and fun coincidences, but I personally don't think it's more than that. Emerald Classics came out on Oct 4th, 2019 and Adore You came out on Dec 6th, 2019 (the album came out even later, on Dec 13th, 2019). Unless Harry and them are on a deep friendship level, where Harry would share unreleased lyrics with them, they could have no knowledge of Harry's Fine Line lyrics while they wrote their own album. (Please take that with a grain of salt, though, because I don't know how deep Harry's friendship with Swim Deep (or just Cav) goes.)

In conclusion, I am going out on a limb here to say that if Harry had already listened to the album back then, I could imagine that he could have liked to see that one of the songs on it was called that, plus the lyrics about blue and green colours in 0121 Desire. He did wear the shirt in the same year the Swim Deep album came out (2019) and knowing how far in advance tour booking can work for big artists like him, it's very likely he already knew they were going to open a few of his shows in April 2020. So I personally think at least half, if not more-so -when he actually wore the shirt in 2019- it was him repping and supporting a band he's friendly with since years; who had just released a new album and who were going to open for him soon. It's absolutely possible that at the same time he also wore it, because of aforementioned coincidences and knowing we would listen to that album and definitely latch on to a song title like that :D (I think this is unlikely, but there's also a possibility where Harry just got gifted the shirt, is friendly with the band and wore it to support them, without even having listened to the album, yet. I'd need to know on what day exactly he wore the shirt to gauge whether he could've had listened to the album already) The reason for the timing of the publication of the photo could be linked to the band only weeks later being announced as his opening act.

I hope all of this helped! 💖 x

on a personal note: I worked with SD in 2013 and 2015 and while they were very sweet and professional, most importantly they took verbal note of the (let's call it) lgbtqai+ relations🏳️‍🌈 on my things and clothing right away (i was still in the closet then), which is the main reason I still have such fond memories of those days. they were really lovely lads and I'm excited to have learned they received this kind of support and outreach.

additional resources: Debunked or Not? tag by @skepticalarrie Debunked tag by @daisiesonafield-blog Debunked or Not tag by @twopoppies

lastly, the video. (i'm posting it at the end, because tumblr uploading it distorted the quality and i don't want that pixelated mess right at the top lmao)

[quietlymakingsomeart]

words by swim deep collage by quietlymakingsomeart

[twopoppies]

Put your arms around this house

Do you mean... Harry's house...

HAHAHAHA! Exactly.

To be fair, I think the song was written for his daughter. But it's such a sweet, loving song.

[qimidapigu]

[zeegeetee]

pick a song named after a food ish

Honey - Swim Deep

Cinnamon - Matt Webb

Octopus - Bloc Party

Bubbly - Colbie Caillat (technically?)

Froot - Marina and the Diamonds (listen)

Ice Cream - Black Pink ft. Selena Gomez

Butter - BTS

Peaches - Justin Bieber

Bacon - Nick Jonas

Apple and Cinnamon - Hikaru Utada

Voting ended onJul 11, 2024

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