David and Jack Antonoff
Since the X-ray version/demos of Virgin were released and we could hear the original outro of David, I've been thinking about the song in its entirety so much. I know a lot of people were linking that outro to Jack Antonoff and it made me think of a podcast Lorde was on where she discussed every song on Melodrama (great podcast called Behind the Melodrama by the Spinoff, check it out!).
During the Hard Feelings/Loveless episode, the host asked her how it was working with Jack. She mentions specifically that meeting him felt like coming home, that they were obsessed with each other, that it was almost like an affair. But most strikingly and what made me go searching for this sound bite is she specifically mentions going to the Sunset Tower with him (skip to around 27 seconds).
It was such a silly detail I somehow remembered but god if David (and any other songs on the album) are about Jack and what was between them during the Melodrama era and onwards it breaks my heart for her. She was like 18/19 when they met and now it seems they do not speak. The line "was I just someone to dominate" and "was I just young blood to get on tape" are sad enough as is. I wonder if the "cause you dimed me out when it got hard" maybe refers to how the whole "Jack Antonoff is ruining the pop girlies" was occurring right around Solar Power, and how he maybe bowed out at that point from pressure from the negative reception to the album and his work on it, combined with a bunch of other personal issues I'm sure were intertwined.
Thoughts??