Theory about Little Dipper and The Pod
I was recently thinking about the songs Little Dipper and The Pod and how they’re placed on You’d Prefer an Astronaut. Both songs are back to back for a reason and I don’t know if anyone else has thought of this before. The song Little Dipper is about two people feeling trapped and relying on each other to escape from whatever situation is making them feel trapped. The chorus of this song is a different voice from the one speaking in the verses. This voice is pleading with the two people who are trying to escape to abort their plans to escape.
The Pod, on the other hand, can be interpreted as being about two people dealing with substance abuse as shown in the lines “And I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from / One of a million ways to feel no pain” and “She opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from / One of a billion ways to feel no pain” as well as other lines that could be interpreted as being about drug abuse.
Now, why would I be talking about a connection between the two songs? My theory is that The Pod is told from the perspective of the person who’s speaking during the chorus of Little Dipper. The two people in Little Dipper are the same people from The Pod and are using drugs to escape reality. Little Dipper is told from the perspective of the people in The Pod and the person in Little Dipper who’s pleading with them to abort their plans of escape are trying to save them from falling further into drug addiction.
I could be completely wrong but I just thought my theory was interesting and I thought someone here would find it interesting too.