I really like the song too. It's beautiful. You should listen to it... here.
But this part of the review really got to me:
“Let’s take the best shy girl singing about being a shy girl in 2k12 and make her sing this fucking classic song about being bad at love and turning into a feelings ghost,” they said.
Something about that phrase 'feelings ghost' really hit home for me.
As a person who loves to write, is in love with language, and collects words and phrases the way others collect porcelain figurines, I love finding a phrase that really manages to encapsulate an entire state of being in a succinct, perfect way.
I would struggle to explain to you what 'feelings ghost' means to me because it would be hard to define it without using the phrase 'feelings ghost'. Sometimes a writer finds such a perfect way to describe something you don't know how to explain it without just repeating the phrase back, but with slightly different emphasis. Like repeating the same word over and over in a slightly louder voice to a person that doesn't speak English, as if volume was the key to making them understand what you meant.
So instead of shouting the phrase 'FEELINGS GHOST' at you over and over, I thought I would share some music that make me feel like a feelings ghost in the hopes that you might understand some glimmer of what I'm struggling to say.
Björk - Hyperballad
"I go through this before you wake up so I can be happier to be safe up here with you."
Sarah Jaffe - Clementine
Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
"Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole. Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound. But while you debate half empty or half full, it slowly rises. Your love is going to drown."
New Order - Temptation
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
"And I will walk in gardens all wet with rain, and I will never, ever, ever, ever grow so old again."
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