My Review of the Leaked Songs on First Listen
Nobody asked for it, and it's been done by others at this point I'm sure, but I ended up live reacting to @mediawhorefics while doing my first listen and I thought I'd share, for those of you who wanna listen to the song later (or only CAN listen to the songs later.) Not that this is gonna be helpful to anyone not in my head because I apparently feel music in scenarios.
I've also linked to a few of my Spotify playlist so you can compare the other songs that are there and get a feel for the mood of the song. Here we go:
Medicine: I know I've been asking for a studio version for a (long) while now but I now realise the error of my ways: what I actually want is a clean live version. Sorry Harry, my bad, as you say in a lot of your song through all your albums: you don't know what you have until you don't. Don't get me wrong: The song is still amazing, the fact that he replaced the audience screaming the missing lyrics with a tease to the missing lyrics is perfect, but also please release a clean live version coz that ENERGY. And I'm someone who mostly prefer studio version over live ones. Medicine is different.
Complicated Freak: makes my rock lover heart very, very happy. It feels like dirty jeans and cigarettes. Old rutty couches and a bunch of friends laughing with a beer in hand. Will go in my tiny Rock playlist even though it's softer a bit than the rest I believe the spirit is the same as those already there.
Baby Honey: So many thoughts about this song. It is. Wow. (also the fact that they both have song that say they miss the other/can't get over them I just... insert the "now kiss" meme) It's the kinda song you play loud in the car with one arm burning outside the window half cooking on the metal door, with the smell of warm car fake leather and yelling the chorus at a red light. Kinda has Carolina vibes in its summer intensity. Going into my In the Summertime playlist for sure.
Boyfriends: the reason why HS3 is available as a record is so you can understand the start of this song. "you love a fool who knows how to get under your skin", man... The song feels like watching your life in 3rd person? I really, really love it. It feels very short even thought it stands at 3:12 minutes. It's like a lullaby, but because of the lyrics it's either a lullaby to ignore the problem of your relationship, or a hug to comfort you when you're near breaking point but just not quite there yet.
Cinema: This is DEFINITELY going to end up as an OST at some point for sure. It's the perfect kind of track for that and the lyrics would match a good few movies, too. I love the yelling in the back "Bring me back to the cinEMAA!" Great song to play pool to.
Daydream: It's a fun son, I really liked to PaPaPaPaPa'd to it, but I think it's just going to be a song I like when it comes in the rotation and not one I would put in my most listened playlists.
Daylight: I really like it, but I can't place it. Probably would go in my Sunday Morning playlist, but it doesn't fit the mood exactly. It's definitely a song to step-dance to throughout the flat while singing the lyrics even if you don't know them. It kinda feels like Fine Line, except not at all. Confusing Song. I like it.
Grapejuice: Good song to vacuum to. Or mindlessly listen to while focusing on writing or drawing. Keeps you in. Will go in my Writing Playlist.
Late Night: Is less for me, personally, but it's a definite style of his that I get why people like it. There's definitely other songs that fits this one in his discography. Good radio song choice.
Keep Driving: Cute song, very carefree, I love it. It sounds like a cooking a brunch together. Another song that is definitely going to be a "oh I like this song!" when it comes into the rotation, while not having it's own spot in to overplayed mood playlists.
Little Freak: If this isn't a Lighter Song I don't know what is. It's so soft and spacey? and also very Smoll. Which is very fitting. Will either go in my Late Night Drive or my Low playlists...
Love of my Life: I looooooove this song. It's a great End-of-the-Night slow dance, even though they don't do those anymore, it's like looking at a dance floor once the lights came back on. It's very bittersweet and I just love it.
Matilda: UGH. fuck. It feels like a song you listen to on a stuffy couch with a blanket over you. Not something I would be listening on repeat unless I'm in this kind of "stuck" mood depersonalized or depression, when you stare into nothing and you just need that one song to function But also the LYRICS fuck. yes yes yes. And it WORKS. Great song. This is the found family song and it does strike that chord, which makes it go into rotation.
Music for Sushi Restaurant: PaaaPa PaaaaPa PaaaaPa Paaaa I like it. It's a very fun song, just like it's title. Not summery enough to go in my In the Summertime playlist, but it might go well in my Sunday Mornings, even though it's slightly more active than most of the songs there. Great song to cook pancakes to.
Satelite: This one is definitely going to go on my Late Night Drive playlist, where all the music that goes around you when you're in that weird state of "being tired but awake and focusing on the road but are you?" go. I really love the lyrics as well, they fit with the mood of the music and it's very vivid of a description. Really ties up with the other songs on the same theme.
Want to come back to it after I listen to the album
