Pink In The Night - A Song Analysis

Pink in the Night - a song analysis

much like my other song analysis, please listen to the song beforehand.  i think this song is just yearning, and because of that, i adore it so much. “i’ve been blossoming alone over you” the singer uses this to show just how much they’ve loved their lover. a flower could take from few months to many months to bloom, to blossom. also i think they used ‘blossom’ of all words to show that the love they have for their lover is as beautiful as a flower. “i love you, i love you, i love you” the repetition means two thing; the first being that the singer is doubtful. they fear that their lover does not love them back, so they’re hesitant with their first ‘i love you’ but when they see that their lover loves them as well, they get more confident, and they tell their lover over and over how much they love them. the second thing being that they’re repeating the phrase because they just want to show their lover just how much they love them. “i could stare at your back all day” the singer cannot face their lover, and because of that, they simply stare at their back instead. one of the reasons for them not being able to face their lover is because they know that their lover does not love them back, so they cannot bare to see them. another reason is because they think that their lover is so much better, nicer, kinder, smarter, more flawless and more perfect than they would ever be, so they cannot see their face, because they think that they do not deserve to do so, so they opt for staring at their lover’s back instead. “can i try again, try again, try again” the same thing i said about the repetition of “i love you” in the aspect that kissing again and again is just to show their lover just how much they admire and adore them. they are also hesitant here, afraid that they would get rejected, that the kiss would go badly just like last time, so they ask then they get more confident when their lover agrees. i absolutely adore this song. it is just completely yearning and i totally love that. 

No Longer Human - a book review

this is unlike anything i have ever read before. (some slight spoilers so if you don't want that, read the book then read the review if you want to) i suppose that is because i usually do not read psychological stuff or stuff that has more focus on psychology. i truly liked it, even though i can now understand why it's called depressing. it was really well written and the main character, yozo, is a very interesting person, as sad as he is. i find him to be a truly interesting character; perhaps because of how detached from everyone he is or because of his introverted personality. either way, i find him really intriguing. the storyline itself is also quite interesting, as it is simply yozo reflecting on his life and seeing how it was a life of shame and dishonour for him. i suppose that, if the book did have a hidden moral of sorts, what the author might've tried to get across is that hiding who you are and masking your feelings will never help you in life at all. the clearest case of that is the entire story; yozo's whole life he's been masking his feelings and never truly saying what he's thinking and always lying and deceiving people in order for them to accept him but it will never work. either way i really liked this book, because of all of what i have mentioned above, but even though i really enjoyed it, i wouldn't be all that confident in recommending it as it's a depressing story. side note: i read a translated version (obviously) so i cannot really judge the writing style as it was translated meaning that some things couldn't be captured in their normal beauty.

Kafka On the Shore - a book review

this was a very interesting read to say the very least. it was quite enjoyable and it leaves a lot of things for one to think about after they're done. i am not sure how i interpret the events that took place, seeing as some of them are realistic yet some of them are not, but, for now at least, i think that this entire story took place in a non-dream reality. this was all real in whatever universe it took place in. aside from its peculiar and weird general plot, i love the way that the characters were written. they all had something in them that did not affect the main plot line but it made them so human-like and that is why i truly appreciated the characters. in addition to all of these points, something that truly amazes me about this book and generally translated book is that the words i was reading are not written how they usually are. i mean by this that usually when things get translated, the translation cannot capture the beauty of the original words written by the author in the media's original language. it was something that added on to my enjoyment and liking to this book. anyway, i really recommend this book. though some people might find it confusing and boring.   spoilers:  i have seen many people who read this book saying that they didn't find any morale or any lesson learned from the story or something similar to that, i disagree. this book teaches you many things, one of which is to never get too attached to the past. i mean, look what it did to miss saeki. after her lover died, she was no longer alive. maybe physically she was alive but not mentally. she lost her will to live and just carried on as a emotionless living being. there are also many other lessons learned but this one is the one that stood out to me the most

The Picture of Dorian Grey - a book review

this book felt like a giant fever dream. i truly liked this book. it was quite intriguing and it kept its mysterious undertone, i suppose i could call it, all through-out the book. the idea of dorian selling his soul to a painting is what captured my attention and made me want to read it. 'what would he do with this mask of youth' was my first thought before reading the book, and, to be quite honest, what happened did not disappoint. dorian as a person was quite fascinating, although he was not that great of a person, but that was the whole point of the story, was it not? what i think that wilde was trying to inform people of, or not even inform, simply talk about, was that he thinks that regardless of how kind a person is, if they're given the chance to preserve what they care about most, and in dorian's case it was his youth, they would do it, not caring about how many people they hurt in the process. aside from the intriguing plot-line, i quite liked wilde's writing style. he uses a lot of metaphors and many literary devices and i found that to be quite amiable. (spoiler) i find the way that dorian died truly interesting and i think that, if you've read the book, you'd understand why overall, i truly liked this book and it was an enjoyable read.

The Whole World and You - a song analysis

please listen to the song before reading the analysis, as usual. this song is one of my absolute favourites and it makes me unreasonably happy whenever i listen to it. this analysis is much like the one for mitski’s ‘come into the water’, as i will mention character names in it and i will also mention a certain ship, which i consider to be my absolute favourite of all time. ‘words printed all on papers that seem so mystical, it’s so magical’ i believe that from this line alone, especially if you are a friend of mine, you can tell which ship this analysis is written about. it’s ranpoe. this line simply refers to the boys’ love of words and writing, as poe is a mystery writer and ranpo is a mystery reader. aside from that, poe’s ability has to do with words, and he makes them magical, even more so than usual, by activating his ability and capturing you in the world of his creation. ‘no one’s better than you’ this line is simply ranpo to poe. because of poe’s incredible intelligence and creativity, and the fact that he too is a detective and a lover of mystery, ranpo would find him to be better than most people, perhaps even the best person there is aside from himself. poe would obviously doubt that, as he believes that there is no one better than ranpo, and that is why he, ranpo, repeats it many times throughout the song. ‘even the animals know that something’s brewing and they’re all cooing’ i think this line refers to karl, poe’s raccoon, which i know sounds very stupid but in all honesty, i do not care. the ‘something brewing’ is the relationship that’s developing between the writer and the detective, and ranpo’s simply pointing out that it’s so obvious what their relationship is that even karl could notice it. ‘i’ve even written this whole song about you, and not about me’ this line is simply ranpo expressing his love for poe, which really just shows that when he cares about someone, no matter how selfish or overly confident about himself he is, he will express it clearly and confidently because if he thinks that someone is worthy of his love, then they deserve the same praise as he does, which means that they deserve a lot of praise, which in poe’s case, he really does. ‘cause we all know these are the facts’ ranpo is a creature of logic, and he works with nothing but facts. now he is simply stating that his love for poe is nothing but a fact, leaving no room for doubt from poe’s side. poe would obviously not believe it, because he would think that he isn’t worthy of ranpo’s love or that ranpo is a lot better than he is, and as ranpo knows of his lover’s doubts, he simply states that everything he said is nothing but a fact. this song, as i said before, is one of my absolute favourite songs. it was probably one of the first songs i came up with an analysis for, but i just never wrote said analysis until now.

And then there were None - a book review

agatha chrisite is a genius. that is how i can sum this book up simply. there are many things i liked about this book, but the thing i loved the most was the mystery itself. the language that christie uses is rather simple compared to edogawa ranpo or edgar allan poe, but it still gets the description across, similar to fitzgerald's. her mystery, however, is a unique one. i was able to guess the murderer halfway through the book, but throughout the rest of the book, i kept doubting myself. she made me think that it could be someone else, but my answer seemed to be the most logical one, so i stuck with it. i like the idea of the mystery itself, i found it to be quite creative, since i've never seen it applied in another book or movie before. the idea of ten people being killed by one of them and having the murderer be vague is quite difficult to execute, and christie said so herself, but what i liked more about the idea was that the murders all followed a nursery rhyme, which i think just shows how unsettling those rhymes can be, and how the murderer was a genius in his own way. aside from the mystery itself, and its brilliant execution, i love how christie wrote her characters. they all seemed quite human, quite realistic. to me, they seemed like characters that you might actually find during that time, during that era. another thing i really liked about this book is that it was fast-paced. the murders all happened quite quickly, and the book's pace helped me a lot in finishing it in a short period of time. over all, i loved this book and i would recommend it to practically anyone. i think it would be a decent starter book for people who want to get into the mystery genre more.