![]() It commits to dynamism in a way that's almost anthemic by James Blake standards, wallowing in heartbreak but still delivering a hooky chorus. "Life Is Not the Same" brings back the skeletal piano chords, clicky drum programming, and unexpected production turns of Blake's early work, but anchors the song's more free-floating qualities with a soaring chorus. The spare "Famous Last Words" flows affably through subtle synth lines and increasingly layered vocals, opening up into a sweet swell of strings and romantic harmonies just before winding down. A string of straightforward and uncomplex songs open the album. Fifth album Friends That Break Your Heart continues the emotional climate change that the producer/songwriter has been experimenting with, landing largely as a friendly pop record, even while holding on to traces of the pain and loneliness that are inextricable from Blake's music. His fourth album, Assume Form, felt a few degrees warmer as well, with several songs that offset his signature melancholy with feelings of springy joy and the giddy excitement of new love. While still mired in heartbreak and discontentment, the production on 2016's The Colour in Anything brightened up just a touch from the stark atmospheres of Blake's groundbreaking earlier records. All you can do is cherish those memories for what they were worth and continue to move forward. It’s not easy, but it’s necessary.įriends can break your heart too and it doesn’t make your heart break any less painful.James Blake's discography has experienced a gradual thaw. You’re not 20 anymore sneaking into the bar underage and you can’t get that back. You’re not 17 anymore waking up in your parent’s basement at noon and you can’t get that back. Sometimes you grow apart from each other and as much as you wish you could save the relationship and go back to the way things used to be, you can’t. People change, they grow, they turn into the person they swore they would never be and you change too, in your own ways. It’s a sad reality, but I guess that’s life. It hurts to know that you really didn’t matter because they could just drop you so easily. It hurts to know that they’re right there, that they’re still the same person you shared so many memories with but can no longer reach out to. You’re just supposed to move on and it’s not fair. You’re not supposed to blow up their phone, talk about how much of a jerk they are or how much they hurt you. In friendships one person can just leave, can just stop calling you back and you’re just supposed to let go and move on. They become a big part of who you are.įriendships are still relationships though – you still fight, you push each other, you give each other the reality checks you need and you keep working at them in the same way you’d work at any relationship.īut when your romantic relationships end you usually know why you’re normally given some form of explanation to help you understand what’s going on, but that’s not necessarily the case in friendships. You decide this person meshes well with you and you like them enough to tell them all your secrets and ask them for the input in your life decisions. In friendships you choose each other, you decide that you want to make it work. You either feel a connection or you don’t, it’s simple once your heart takes over. You’re attracted to people for a reason and sometimes you don’t understand it. When it comes to romantic relationships you don’t necessarily get to choose who you love. It doesn’t make it hurt less when you’ve been forgotten about. It doesn’t make it hurt less when your friend chooses their significant other over you and decides they can’t balance both of you, or just doesn’t want to. It doesn’t make it hurt less when someone you spent most days with and always talked to just decides they no longer have room for you in their life. And maybe it isn’t, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. We always talk about heartbreak, about how painful it is to lose the person you love, but we seemingly always skip over friendship breakups because the pain isn’t supposed to be as deep. Apparently in your new life you don’t have room for me and it breaks my heart in ways I didn’t know was possible. I always thought our friendship would last, that we could make it through anything because we’ve made it through so much already but apparently I was wrong. After all those long days and late nights where we poured our hearts out to each other I can’t even reach out to you for advice, or to tell you I miss you. ![]() I never thought this day would come where we’d be perfect strangers, where I could look you in the eye and not even recognize you anymore. ![]()
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