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tiredsatyrr · 9 months ago
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i think this performance should got some ao3 tags like it has to be studied i just can't yk
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misskattylashes · 1 year ago
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Remember on Jools Holland when Alex said about Body Paint 'And if my words don't come together, Listen to the melody, cos my love is in there hiding'
Maybe the same goes for Mirrorball
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paperlovesadness · 2 years ago
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Something to rely on - Miles Kane song analysis
// From Coup De Grace - 2018 //
Okay - I need to start releasing my draft-posts into the world. I've had this sitting there for a while but wasn't convinced it's ready. I think I should just stop overanalyzing though so here goes.
We're here - another silly little subjective analysis of a Miles Kane song (geared towards how it could possibly maybe be about Alex? question mark question mark ??)
I was gonna do Adios Ta-Ra Ta-Ra first, but then I was listening to this album and this one just got stuck in my head and didn't wanna leave. So here we are (will do others too of course though).
Big disclaimer is: this is just one little personal interpretation done for fun and please don't take it too seriously.
Even I personally have more than one idea in my head about a lot of these lyrics and songs and what they could mean. I just choose one - the one most convincing to myself, one that sticks out to me the most and write it down for what it is in that moment in time.
I like sharing these because I'm curious if anyone else in the world finds some of my thoughts convincing - and if not - what they think these things mean instead! Honestly the thing I want most from these is feedback and potential conversations - be it in tag, reblog, reply, or message form. I love trying to figure songs out together! So please share your thoughts!
[Verse 1]
Crescent moon, left in my drive
All too soon, you made your point
Keeping off the radar, how does that make you feel?
The moon seems like a thing in the whole Miles/Alex "lore"
-> We've got that interview, where Alex jokes around about them missing each other while on tour, looking at the moon, wondering what the other's doing.
-> There's the "He moves the moon that kid" quote from Alex when introcuding Miles during an AM gig.
-> "I'm Alex from the lash shadow puppets and I play the awhooo [interviewer Cat - so you're a wolf. Cool] // And I'm Miles from the Last Shadow Puppets and I play the midnight moon".
-> The moon is also ofc associated with Alex himself due to TBHC and the fact he 's stated that he's intereted in space overall
other things maybe worth noting?
* "Kiss me underneath the moon's sideboob" [AM - TBH+C]
* The Ultracheese. The whole song. The title being a cheesy [hehe] metaphor for the moon
* "Crawling through like midnight panthers
Growling at the moon" [ MK - First of my kind]
* Paraselene woman, I'm your man in the moon [Alex Turner, Glass in the Park]
All that to say... We've got another moon here and maybe that's done on purpose.
This one is crescent - seems like a sad metaphor. Crescent moons can symbolize either the beginning or the end of something. "Left in my drive" is giving me very much breakup vibes. Something left behind on the way out of your home/life.
There's nothing much left of the moon that they perhaps shared as "their thing".
Keeping off the radar - a thing that Alex very much does - not one for social media or a public presence at all if he can help it. Here - maybe also direct ghosting is invloved after a breakup or fight - whataver went on.
[Chorus 1]
Something to rely on
Something to get high on
Miles has had enough of the push-and-pull of the relationship. He wants something he can actually rely on. Something that'll bring him the pure joy love is supposed to bring - a high.
Miles also references a high/getting high together in other songs - like in "Wrong side of life" (the song he says is about the person who he broke up with/the one he's wrote most of the CDG album about + incidentally a song he apparently dedicated to Alex during a gig he was at) he writes about wanting to get high with you.
So i feel like we have a doube meaning - the high of love/and actually getting high.
(something - let's be honest - that is obvious Miles and Alex did once or twice during the EYCTE era)
I don't want to beg or steal, I don't want to borrow hearts
Another clue to the fact that the relationship was an on-and-off / push-and-pull / hot-and-cold thing. Maybe even an affair. Maybe just open or perhaps simply casual - but Miles doesn't want it to be just that.
He doesn't want to beg for the persons love and full attention.
Doesn't want to share them with anyone - have to steal them away from the person they officially "belong" to.
He doesn't want to have them sometimes - a heart borrowed for the day' when it's convenient. He wants to own the person's heart and in return be theirs fully too.
I just want to make it real
Something to rely on
Confirmation for the theory above. He wants it to be a real full-on relationship, not whatever it has been and has obviously not been enough for him.
The making of a mystery, wishing on a falling star
I don't want to let this sadness rule my heart
He knows he can't take it anymore - his heart is at stake and it's hurting. Whatever the relationship is offering isn't satisfying him and the sadness that brings is taking over his life. He has to put an end to it for his own good - but he still loves the person. He'd like to be able to rely on them. He wants to wish on a falling star for this to work out. (more space related things?)
[Verse 2]
Keeping it clean, through all the things you wanted me to be
Out of touch, with all the rumors I keep hearing of you
Keeping off the radar, how does that make you feel?
Keeping it clean is a confusing metaphor - It brings to mind images of staying clean - so drugs/alcohol. But that doesn't personally makes sense to me in this context.
I'd go towards keeping their image clean. This relationship - whatever it was - was a secret. That seems like something mostly the other person wanted - not ready to fully commit. They wanted Miles to be a secret / a friend with benefits maybe / something without a label perhaps, when Miles was all in and ready for the real deal with them.
He needs to seperate himself (be out of touch) from the rumours about this person who broke his heart // perhaps the rumours inevitably make their way towards him, because this person is a well-known public figure, often gossiped about. And associated with Miles closely - so he keeps hearing about them even though he'd like not to know what goes on in his life post their fall out. <- that's assuming the lyrics are from the "now" perspective; post-heartbreak.
But it can also mean that they had an actual relationship - but it was kept secret - something initiated by the other person, not Miles.
Miles kept the rules - kept their image clean, kept it all a secret. But that meant having to deal with rumours about the other person being with other people.
In this context "Keeping off the radar, how does that make you feel?" can also refer to the relationship. He's asking the person - keeping us secret - how does that make you feel?
[chorus 2 / ending]
The making of a mystery, wishing on a falling star
I don't want to let this sadness rule my heart
Your actions from the start
In spite of me insightfully inviting me to fall apart
This person was doing more-than-friend things with Miles and suggesting a possible something-more from the very start - when they first met. Their actions clearly invited him to fall for them and then in turn fall apart from the heartache that it caused in the end.
Miles may have known it's a bad idea (in spite of me) but coudn't keep himself from falling anyway. The person was super close to him, understood him well (insightfully inviting me) - which made falling all the more easy.
[Bridge]
All aboard the guilt train
Last call before we leave
First off - makes me recall the "All aboard the Kane train" thing Alex once said during a TLSP gig. May be a coincidence - may not be.
Secondly - Miles seems to feel guilty for the way things went - but he believes both sides should take the blame.
Last call before we learn to love
The last before we leave
(And here we collectively fall apart)
"Last call before we learn to love" seems to me to imply that it's the time to take accountability for their mistakes in this relationship so that they can move on and form other ones ina healthy way? [maybe] BUT-
if so, I still believe this is Miles being freshly hurt by the hearbreak. There are contradictory statements about this love he's lost on the album (and I believe some more on the next one). It doesn't really seem like he's given up on them and their bond.
Even here
You're all that I wanted
All that I need
You're all that I wanted
You're all that I need
at the end of the song we get "wanted" in past tense but "need" in the present.
So doesn't truly seem like giving up on the person and their true shared feelings.
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misskattylashes · 1 year ago
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Alex's face......the joy....
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They look so happy (and in love) 😍
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alexturner2005 · 3 months ago
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The Last Shadow Puppets at Shangri-La Studios By Zackery Michael, 2015
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cluedoenthusiast · 5 months ago
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The little alien in Al's body fighting to escape + I spilt me beer on the radio (it looks like a little island) [X]
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totallyfuckd · 1 year ago
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Alex Turner & Miles Kane c. 2015
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misskattylashes · 1 year ago
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Does anyone else get disgusting thoughts when he lowers himself down? Not me picturing him lowering himself down onto.....anyway.....
Killing me softly with (Dracula Teeth) Why do they do this?! (Also no gifs of this? This is a crime)
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tedioepica · 30 days ago
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This picture has been stuck in my mind for a while, and I don't see it very often and I think it deserves to be seen by more people
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blair-s-world · 7 months ago
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Alex turner, the cutie.
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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 5 months ago
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the body language. the fucking body language ?????
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riverabsence · 7 months ago
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THE COMMENTS ON TLSP MUSIC VIDEOS ARE LITERALLY EVERYTHING HELP ME
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should-know-better · 1 month ago
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Look at them side stage at Glastonbury. Happy times 😍
Found on Pinterest, so no source I’m afraid.
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themeetingplaces · 9 months ago
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QRO magazine 2016 <3
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lily8419 · 5 months ago
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i am mesmerised
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alexturner2005 · 3 months ago
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The Last Shadow Puppets at Shangri-La Studios By Zackery Michael, 2015
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