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Natasha thinks back to when she and her lover indulged in unideal youthful behavior, such as staying up late and drinking. It might’ve not been best for their health, but these shared mistakes brought them together.

They listened to Jim Morrison, the lead singer of rock band The Doors, who died young at age 27. Their mutual love of old rock music made for yet another bond.

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Lauren’s boyfriend tries to disguise his mistreatment of her so no one will notice. He covers it up like how one would drape a blanket over a bloody chair: it’s out of sight, but eventually someone will unravel it.

Lauren’s already figured him out and gets sarcastic: Obvious she has noticed, so it’s untrue that nobody noticed. If she noticed, who’s next?

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In “Aftertaste”, Ellie fixates on the lingering remnants of an ending relationship, likened to an aftertaste.

It’s a song off Ellie Goulding’s third album, Delirium, released on 6 November 2015.

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Delirium is the third album by Ellie Goulding. It was be released on 6 November 2015.

Ellie had this to say about the album:

A part of me views this album as an experiment – to make a big pop album. I made a conscious decision that I wanted it to be on another level. It can be describing a really happy, crazy state, or it can be the complete opposite. I’m constantly in a state of delirium.

She also left verified annotations all over the album. Check them out here!

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“On My Mind” is a song about the head going places where the heart isn’t leading, a reversal of standard Pop lyric conventions.

The first single released in advance of Ellie Goulding’s 2015 album Delirium became an international hit, charting in over 20 countries.

The song revolves around Ellie grappling with lingering thoughts about an ex-lover and a lack of emotion about the relationship.

In an interview with Elvis Duran, Ellie explained how this unique viewpoint was created.

One day we were at the Max Martin compound, and we were just randomly talking about having somebody on your mind that shouldn’t necessarily be on your mind. And you can’t figure it out why they’re still there. I talked to friends about it, and I realized it was quite a common thing. Just having this strange situation of not necessarily being with that person anymore, but them still being around for whatever reason, and then just kind of trying to figure out why. So I think the song was the figuring out of why.

The song is seemingly about her relationship with singer Ed Sheeran, as a response to Sheeran’s previous single ‘Don’t’.

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On September 16, 2015, frequent collaborators Disclosure and Sam Smith dropped by BBC Radio 1 and covered Drake’s “Hotline Bling” while they were in the studio.

Their cover retains the original’s tropical instrumentals, while emphasizing Sam’s R&B inflections and Disclosure’s electronic flair.

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Howard said in an interview regarding this song:

I don’t like when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

These are artists that spin lies of creating music, when in reality they are just fading and don’t want to admit that the game has changed.

Also, reference: just because he was a fool before doesn’t mean he’s one now.

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Carl is a fan of old movies. When it comes to pleasure, he prefers watching 20th century films and getting into the experience until it feels like he’s actually living inside the scenes. It helps that it gets him away from other people.

This passion is referred to in other songs, notably “New Love Grows on Trees”.

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Like how the handshake was originally invented to demonstrate that the two parties' lack any weapons up their sleeves, two lovers' hands together bring both of them together. Empty hands don’t focus on anything or anyone else, and Rachel wants to treasure that moment.

Scars are also intimate, since their origin’s sometimes come from vulnerable moments, so revealing them give the couple another medium to bond over. They’re flawed anyways, so might as well be honest about it.

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Electronic light does impair sleep, but her insomnia mainly spins from her anxiety and loneliness.

Dreams offer her an escape, but she can’t help but want to feel connected 24/7. She can only distract herself from her anxiety and the dark thoughts in her mind by using her phone to communicate and “connect” with others. These thoughts keep her up, but she just can’t seem to switch them off, and stays on her phone to distract her from these thoughts until she finally falls asleep whilst on her phone, referring to the previous line.

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