On three pop songs
“Friday I’m in Love” by The Cure. It is Friday today, and I think this song conveys the basic feeling of relief about reaching the weekend, especially when the week has been difficult. What are weekends about? When you are young, they can be about partying; when older, they are mainly about resting and maybe religious worship.
“Charlotte Sometimes” also by The Cure. I got a bit obsessed with this song as a late teenager. I was going through a difficult time and thought the song had to do profoundly with being lonely but treating every person, especially in romantic situations, as if they are everyone, almost in a spiritual way. From what I read, the lead singer/writer got into legal trouble because he took the title from a novel by someone else, The lyrics seem to be his own.
“I Went Too Far” by Aurora. She is one of my favorite current singers. I like almost all the songs I have heard by her, and her native language is not even English; she is Norwegian. I think in life everyone goes too far, whether it is romance or something else. There is a good, kind of abstract video for the song on YouTube, and she is very pretty.