u/Mariahsfalsie

I love her reaction sm 🤣🤣🤣

There’s been significant debate over the change in Ev’s lyrical style over the years: from metaphorical and emotionally mythic to more grounded and literal. What I’ve seen less discussed is her recent propensity to shine a spotlight on the literal meaning of every song.

Older Ev work had less emotional specificity: they felt symbolic, dreamlike, spiritual. That ambiguity lets listeners project themselves into them.

So when I hear:

“this song is about the patriarchy for me” and “this is about missing New York” I find it shrinks the imaginative field as they’re concrete labels. Your brain can start organizing the song around those statements instead of wandering through emotional associations. It depletes a song’s aura.

It’s not that these are *bad* inspirations. It’s just that for me, hearing the “seed” too directly can make building a relationship with the song more difficult. This over-definition of a song feels like turning on a fluorescent overhead light in a room that was more beautiful by candlelight.

I find a little ambiguity crucial to my enjoyment of music, especially Ev’s, and that’s why I’m unfortunately staying away from interviews for awhile... and I hate it because it's like, the best time for them 😭 I’m curious how others feel.