User blog comment:Jaxswim/Jaxswim's Epic Song Tourney!!!11!!one!!!!eleven!!!one!!!!1!!onetyone/@comment-3350823-20120614071154

Saw a mention of Somebody That I Use To Know and I had to check out this blog first thing :P

1. Somebody That I Use To Know- Long explanation (you have been warned). I really, really, really like this song. A lot of songs on the radio (or the radio stations I listen to, which are playing themselves as modern radio stations that play new songs or songs from now that are suppose to be popular with young people) play songs that are about sex, drugs and partying. Nothing wrong with this, I listen to them too. But they just don't have much meaning beyond that.

With Somebody That I Use To Know, I find that it is really different. It captures feelings and stirs my emotions, making me feel something. It has meaning behind a simple break up song, it's about how he thought so highly of this girl (who Kimbra (the female singing) acts as in the song) and had these illusions that she was really something and put her on a pedestal, but she didn't met these expectations and didn't feel as strongly for him as he did for her, and how this had a negative impact during their relationship.

He was happy to escape them when they were breaking up, but then she goes and acts like he wasn't important, hardly a footnote in her life.

But in Kimbra's verse, it shows how the pain and sacrifice didn't belong just to first person but to her. He made her believe she had done things wrong and how he was clinging to that illusion and to the person he wanted her to be.

Then he sings the chorus, but it's different. Instead of singing it in a quiet and saddened way, the person can sing it as a mad, painful rant as if he's trying to defend himself in an intense argument.

I can relate to both sides of the argument. Being projected and thought of as something your not with high expectations on you, but not wanting to follow them but at the same time being made to feel guilty about not following them. This can apply to more than a relationship as well, and for a lot stories this can be feelings of people's expectations but isn't as deeply said as here.

At the same, I get what it's like to be with someone think so highly of someone and really feel for them and care about them and their opinions but the person doesn't hold up to their expectations and doesn't care as much about you and who you are, and your thoughts as you do about them.

I get how that hurts a person but how you try to ignore it and act like everything is fine. And then I get how it is when a person acts like you weren't really important and how you a hardly a footnote in their lives when you were together and they meant a lot to you.

This applies to not only relationships and love to me, but to friendships too.

When I sing this song, I feel those emotions but they kind of feel lifted off my shoulders, like the pain isn't there as much.

That's how I interpret it anyway.

2. We Are Young By Fun - Won't go on as much as Somebody That I Use To Know, but I think this has a deeper meaning too. It can really be interpreted differently too; some people say it's about domestic abuse and I have heard it about someone you had a fling and fell for but they haven't exactly fallen for you and are still having flings but you their to help them and they help you too. Just a few different meanings I've heard and kind of see and feel.

3. Take Care by Drake and Rihanna- Don't think I need to explain.

4. Dedication to my Ex- I honestly can't judge the other song, though the music video is cool.

5. Obsessions by Marina and the Diamonds- Don't know much about her, but I like Marina and the Diamonds and some of her new songs. I like this song better than the other.

6. No Light, No Light- Love Florence and the Machine.

7. So Good- Call Me Maybe isn't a bad song, but the words seem weird to me, and I mostly mock it when I sing it, which cracks me up :P And I think Rappers are really good artists, because all the rhythms and rhyme in rap seem hard to me.

8. Titanium- Like the beat of this song. And Hot Problems is a joke song right? I don't think the two really mean that.