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[sideways]

Songs of the "you clearly have issues, but if you'd let me love you I'd be so good for you" ilk have a way of rubbing me the wrong way, which is why it took me by completely bewildered surprise when Vienna Teng swooped in with "Never Look Away" and downright seduced the closet romantic in me. I feel wooed. I have been topped by a dance beat. VT could offer me her hand and I might just take it.

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[goodbyebird]

frayadjacent has a stunning Buffy vid set to that song.

[sideways]

Oh lovely!

[earlymorningechoes]

Part of what I love about it - and many of her other songs that come across as romantic - is that that’s not the relationship she had in mind when she wrote the song. This one is actually from the point of view of Mother Nature singing to humanity! And it works beautifully in so many ways. “For you are made of nebulas and novas and night sky / you are made of memories you bury or live by” is one of my favorite song lyrics of all time.

(The other song like this is Stray Italian Greyhound, which she wrote after attending an Obama rally!)

[sideways]

Ohhhh! 🤩 Well that just makes me all the more enchanted. Absolutely willing to be seduced by mother nature - and truly what made this song so emotionally compelling was the call to be unashamed, which is an urging that works on so many levels. I love the poetry of her lyrics.

[hokuton_punch]

Oh, that's lovely. ♥

[sideways]

Isn't it?? 🥰

[cloudwrack]

I LOVE THAT SONG. I was actually listening to it not long before I scrolled past this entry - it might just be my favourite on the album. ♥ I'm also not a fan of the fix-you-with-my-love vibe, but the lyrics to this one always felt too broad/universal to put me off that way - it's cool to hear what her intent was when she wrote it. (And it feels like a good counterpoint to "Watershed", which takes a very different tone re: nature singing to humanity...)