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How Snoh Aalegra dropped an album that brought me healing while I was trying & struggling to get over feelings I had for someone I still love dearly.
This album for me was self-therapy.
A thread:
This album for me was self-therapy.
A thread:
i’ll list my favorite tracks and quote my favorite lyrics & why they were(and still are) so relatable to me.
‘I Want You Around’
The title explains exactly why I was going through the most when it dropped. She sings “I fall for you every time I try to resist you”, and this is the line that pierced through my heart every time I looped this album. https://music.apple.com/za/album/i-want-you-around/1473027149?i=1473027171">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
The title explains exactly why I was going through the most when it dropped. She sings “I fall for you every time I try to resist you”, and this is the line that pierced through my heart every time I looped this album. https://music.apple.com/za/album/i-want-you-around/1473027149?i=1473027171">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
‘Situationship’
She opens this song with the line “So many times I tried to get over you, no lie”
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💔" title="Broken heart" aria-label="Emoji: Broken heart">. Carried by a nice upbeat-ish tempo, this song made light of what kind of relationship I had with this person, though I had higher expectations. https://music.apple.com/za/album/situationship/1473027149?i=1473027307">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
She opens this song with the line “So many times I tried to get over you, no lie”
My favorite line reads “the truth is that I miss you, no way I can forget you, no.”
As we might have been in love, we never had an exclusive relationship.
I guess we got a “Situationship”.
As we might have been in love, we never had an exclusive relationship.
I guess we got a “Situationship”.
‘Love Like That’
Where do I starthttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face" aria-label="Emoji: Grimacing face">? If you’ve ever still yearned for a love that has started to fade, this song was the mental vs emotional battle where my mind told me to text first, but my heart told it to stop making decisions that broke it. https://music.apple.com/za/album/love-like-that/1473027149?i=1473027323">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
Where do I start
She sings “maybe we just ain’t been on the same page” and I would loop this for a good hour while the story of how we met, fell in love, and once brightened up each other’s lives, and were now growing into a distant memory played in my head.
The worst part of falling for someone who doesn’t really allow themselves to express how they feel about you is that you never know where you stood, where you now stand, and if this was just a passing‘phase’ for them.
“Can’t say you love me when it’s like that.”
“Can’t say you love me when it’s like that.”
‘Charleville 9200, Pt II’
“How’d we go from being favorites
To being complete strangers
Help me understand
It wasn’t in our plans”
This is by far the saddest song on the album. You will understand where she is coming from if you’ve ever been in a https://music.apple.com/za/album/charleville-9200-pt-ii/1473027149?i=1473027516">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
“How’d we go from being favorites
To being complete strangers
Help me understand
It wasn’t in our plans”
This is by far the saddest song on the album. You will understand where she is coming from if you’ve ever been in a https://music.apple.com/za/album/charleville-9200-pt-ii/1473027149?i=1473027516">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
...relationship/friendship where things were ONCE reciprocal.
Chorus:
“Why’d you take me up this high
Just to put a hole in my parachute
So I would fall for you”
Chorus:
“Why’d you take me up this high
Just to put a hole in my parachute
So I would fall for you”
My love for this song was triggered by an event where I got so disappointed that the pain & disappointment translated into random waves of sadness.
“Say, do you remember
Back when shit was good
Two kids in the night
WE WERE SO ALIVE
Over time I realized
Yeah I realized
It was all a lie” https://music.apple.com/za/album/charleville-9200-pt-ii/1473027149?i=1473027516">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
Back when shit was good
Two kids in the night
WE WERE SO ALIVE
Over time I realized
Yeah I realized
It was all a lie” https://music.apple.com/za/album/charleville-9200-pt-ii/1473027149?i=1473027516">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
‘I Didn’t Mean To Fall In Love’
The daily chats, the video calls, the moments spent together, and the warm feeling this person once brought me had resulted in this false hope of one day being together, but now I hated that I had all these goddamn FEELS. https://music.apple.com/za/album/i-didnt-mean-to-fall-in-love/1473027149?i=1473027533">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
The daily chats, the video calls, the moments spent together, and the warm feeling this person once brought me had resulted in this false hope of one day being together, but now I hated that I had all these goddamn FEELS. https://music.apple.com/za/album/i-didnt-mean-to-fall-in-love/1473027149?i=1473027533">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
The heartbreak of feeling abandoned by someone you believed to be dear, and whether you like it or not, occupies a special spot in your life is the most destabilizing and painful.
I really didn’t mean to fall in love.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☹️" title="Frowning face" aria-label="Emoji: Frowning face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💔" title="Broken heart" aria-label="Emoji: Broken heart"> https://music.apple.com/za/album/i-didnt-mean-to-fall-in-love/1473027149?i=1473027533">https://music.apple.com/za/album/...
I really didn’t mean to fall in love.
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I feel much better after writing this thread because using this album as a reference was easier since I never know where to start when I want to express my feelings, so I just end up bottling them up and finding healing in artists’ experiences.
Thank you @snohaalegra.
Thank you @snohaalegra.
