#I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am

[musicandotherstuff]

I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am (with the orchestra for the first time live) - The SSE Arena Belfast

16/10/2023

🎥: recksswaltzTN (on Twitter)

[alexstorm]

Do you think I ain’t quite… is a sexual song? I don’t remember it was here or on IG (I guess IG) that I saw someone said “both islands” is a woman’s boobs and the rest is about having sex. I thought this song was about not fitting in and Alex said that it’s about being a fish out of water

Well, generally Alex is the last person to admit if a song is sexual (see My Propeller).

I don't think the entire song is sexual but some lines could surely be interpreted as sexual. The song is about a jet set life which he clearly leads half the time and that life includes easily available sex.

[lyssified]

EVERYONE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER <3

[sh3sthnderstorms]

-sculptures of anything goes-

[thatonecoltkidyouknow]

I feel like There’d Better Be a Mirrorball transitions perfectly into I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am. Like, at the end of Mirrorball the bongos show up a little in the background, then I Aint Quite is just immediately bongo city.

[disturbing-thoughts]

I feel like Walter White just chewed me up and spit me back out… but like… in a nice way :,)

[iconicredjumpa]

Like fine wine...

ARCTIC MONKEYS I AIN’T QUITE WHERE I THINK I AM

[arctic-cookie-moonkey]

Booty.

[musicandotherstuff]

Arctic Monkeys - Budweiser Stage Toronto, ON

30/08/2023

🎥: mahaonthegram

[lalaballa]

Formation displays of affection fly over -> maybe allude to fakeness in showbiz relationships

personal lyric theories series (3/?): i ain’t quite where i think i am - arctic monkeys

[rotisseries]

the anger and hatred i feel for the "robin wouldn't date nancy cause of steve" rhetoric is literally unmatched by any other force on planet earth

[alatus-k]

Y’know sometimes I’m happy my family is gone/not a part of my life, lol- I feel like I absolutely dodged how guilty they’d make me feel for leaving things messy or undone sometimes.

[houseofwolvess]

For the hyperfixation ask game: 📌💔🏳️‍🌈

ohoho here we go

📌 - how did you find your hyperfixation?

i basically went down a rabbit hole and eventually ended up here lol. back in mid september, i was feeling nostalgic at like 2am and decided to look up some tmnt stuff because i used to be SUPER into the 2012 series when i was in elementary school, and i saw some folks talking about rottmnt. some of it was about the great animation, and others were 30+ year olds whining about how different it was, and that was enough to hook me in lol. i found the premiere/pilot episode that nickelodeon uploaded to their facebook page, then i saw the trailer for the rottmnt movie, and i watched both seasons over the course of the following week.

💔 - tell us about one of your LEAST favorite characters and why you dislike them.

i don't like either of the sando brothers, unfortunately </3 i just think they're both kind of annoying, and not in an enjoyable way. i know they're more or less just one-off characters used to add more villains and such, so they're obviously not gonna be as well developed as the rest of the villains, but i just. don't like them very much :')

🏳️‍🌈 - do you have any headcanons that are important to you?

YES YES YES. okay so, like,,, im usually not super concrete about my headcanons and such bc i like playing around with this stuff, but i DO have some that stay pretty consistent:

leo - gay trans man w/ adhd <3 he/they, bc why not. plays guitar but sucks at it bc he barely practices (projecting onto him lmaoo). sneaks out of the lair to go to shitty concerts sometimes, both in the hidden city and on the surface. medic of the team, but tends to pass off the more severe stuff to donnie.

donnie - bi, queer, and masc aligned nonbinary (or agender maybe. kinda like both headcanons so i can't pick between them). they/he, but he doesn't really care about terms (masc/neutral are usually used by others, but they don't mind fem ones either). autistic, but idk if that counts as a headcanon since it was confirmed as canon recently? but yeah. loves plants and botany in general, even though tech is still his wheelhouse. second most capable when it comes to cooking (behind mikey, of course), he just doesn't do it very often. also sneaks out like leo does, but he usually just does stupid and/or mildly to moderately unsafe shit bc dude likes the adrenaline.

raph - unlabeled queer. he just doesn't feel the need to pick a label, y'know? he's just raph, and that works for him. folks usually use he/him bc it's familar, but he has no real preference most of the time, so any work. autistic + possibly some other flavor of neurodivergent. picked up knitting at some point and he sometimes makes gifts for his family. the only brother with a decently strict sleep schedule.

mikey - pan + either genderflux or demiboy. any pronouns, but his preference changes pretty often. adhd, dyslexic, and probably autistic. lots of vocal stims bc i like projecting <3 him + raph used to be closer, but they drifted apart a bit as they got older (they're still close, of course, but it's different compared to when they were kids). his favorite season is either spring or fall. despite how seemingly adept he is at handling other people's negative emotions, he SUCKS at handling his own. buddy tries to bottle that shit up and it does Not work out.

aaand those are my current favorite ones i think. ive got some, uh,,, slightly more embarrassing ones ig? nothing objectively bad obviously but. just might talk abt them in the tags bc i can <3

[lalaballa]

Interesting take! He likes "double" references this guy 🤔

I cannot exactly explain the following thoughts, but in my mind (and of course if any milex context may be applied) IAQWITIA suits with La Cigale 2018 Miles' live show: images of a live gig, awkwardness (at the after party?) feeling out of place (😞), two islands (two lovers?), Sinatra and spine tingles (milex ref, but Alex also touched Miles' back in SNTM), Riviera (as France/a french lover).

(and LA 54 (309) gives me La Cigale vibes too)

Idk, it is a very cryptic song, could also be about his life at the moment...

I Aint’ Quite Where I Think I am

This song gets quite overlooked I feel, lyric wise when there are so many other cryptic and fascinating ones on The Car. But I think that we have overlooked that this is the one and only song to address ‘The Beard’

I think it is pretty obvious that the main crux of the song is about the futility of fame, but there are other parts that have largely gone unnoticed.

‘Formation displays of affection fly over (eyes roll back) and I can see both islands now’

this screams fake romance and their various staged photos over the years (including recently). Fly over means that she is joining him for one of their staged encounters and his eyes are rolling back in disdain (not in sexual ecstasy!) Both Islands represent his straight life and his real life.

‘The spare set of tingles will race up your spine if I get it my way’

He is hoping for some sort of encounter with Miles at some point if he can get away from Louise (either temporarily or permanently) – much like Sculptures and Jet Skis.

‘Looks like the Riviera is coming into land

Early Predictions would seem to suggest I ain’t quite where I think I am’

I think the Riviera is actually Louise herself, she is coming into land and he will be expected to do something that will make him feel uncomfortable and not where he should be.

I can’t take all the credit for this, Irekiskis on IG was the first one to mention it may well be about bisexuality. I don’t think it is so much about bisexuality, more like Mr Schwartz, it is addressing his straight persona and what is expected of him, and his desire for a ‘real life’

Would love to hear people’s thoughts…..