#years and years Memo
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andy-wm · 21 days ago
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"Who wouldn't want it when he looks like that?"
Yes, Olly Alexander knew exactly how JK felt
I've been absent, I know. Life. But look, one chirp ;) from the lovebirds and I'm back hehehe
With no preamble I'm going to sweep straight past the cute and charming interactions between Jimin & JK on Weverse - always together - and only glance at JK's song recommendations because right now I'm more interested in what came before.
This post by the fabulous @slaaverin, about JK and the song he posted 10 years ago - Memo by Years & Years - hit me so hard in the feels, I had to sit down. Even though I've mostly paid attention to their song recommendations (yes, I know I can do better) this one passed me by completely.
How could I not know that JK posted a song by Years & Years??!
And especially in 2015, when he was really going through it. He had feelings bigger than a house and nowhere to put them.
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This for me is a key moment. Watch Gayo 4 and tell me JK wasn't dying of love.
He was - and still is - a boy with big feelings that he doesn't always have words for. His face and body language have told us that he's filled up to the brim but he seems to keep it inside unless he's made up his mind to say something.
Which of course makes the song recommendations in 2015 so significant. We know it wasn't only about the songs - it never is - it's all about how he's feeling at he time. And he picks out the lines so carefully, so precisely, so that they can speak for him.
And if you read the lyrics of all those songs from 2015 and focus on the lines he picked out, there's a clear message.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking at Eels cover of Elvis's Can't Help Falling In Love for musical inspiration. And picking out I'll give you my everything - a cheesy love song from the '70s - so he could say I have something to tell you? Neatly in between the 2015 Osaka fan-meet and the notorious RBT concert in Hong Kong?
Smooth...
Very smooth, JK
He was in love. He was in lust. He was probably confused and afraid of the consequences, but he couldn't let it go. I know this has been thoroughly dissected so I won't go down that path.
What I am stuck on here, is Years & Years.
Where some of the lines he posted could be the result of searching for songs with particular words in the lyrics, like I have something to tell you, Memo doesn't hit the same way.
I want more (x4) isn't romantic or emotive like some song lines he chose and also it doesn't convey a specific message like others. Without hearing the rest of the song it feels a little brash but in the context of the rest of the lyrics, and with the gentle melody, it's honestly very soft.
He must have listened to a lot of Years & Years because Memo is a beautiful song but it isn't one of their hits. It vanished into obscurity pretty quickly.
Memo wasn't just an LGBT+ song. Years and Years was a very brazenly LGBT+ group.
Olly is a huge icon.
Gay, out, and unapologetic, Olly was singing pop songs about genuine personal feelings and experiences. The songs explored all the nuanced feelings of lust, yearning, hurt, and uncertainty that come with falling in love. They have authenticity. They're the same type of songs Troye was singing in 2016 but a little more... adult. A little further along the track towards resolution. Olly was living the life of a young gay man and his songs reflect that. The content is pretty direct.
Years & Years weren't huge like The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, or The Communards, but they were successful and popular especially amongst the lgbt+ community. They did get radio play in the UK too. Outside of that I think the group was relatively niche.
And yet, JK found them.
That he found them, says to me the he was searching for something. Searching for ways to make sense of his feelings in an environment that would be stifling for a young queer boy who was in love with his best friend.
The songs might not have been #1 on Billboard, but what they WERE was authentic and unambiguous.
Maybe I'm making too much of it but it makes me wonder where he would have been without a group like Years and Years.
If he hadn't heard those words in those songs, and felt the connection with the feelings expressed, would he have had certainty that what he felt was honest and real?
If he hadn't listened to someone else articulate emotions he could relate to, would he have had the words to describe his feelings when he finally confessed?
If Years & Years, and particularly Olly Alexander, hadn't been as successful as they were in 2015, would he have had the determination to face up to the company?
Who knows... maybe none of it really mattered and it was just a line from a song that he liked. But knowing - as ARMY - how much music can change your perception and your life, I don't think that's true. I think it meant something.
I'm so glad he found them.
💗💜💗
In case you've never seen him in action, here's Olly with the other members of Y&Y in concert at YES24 Hall in October 2022. He's wearing a yellow body stocking and thigh boots. Absolutely stunning performers.
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cherry-mash · 14 days ago
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something my coworker's 3 year old did the other day, glorious ( ' ')b
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saradiation · 10 months ago
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HAPPY CRAB KARKAT DAY!! 🦀
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bacchuschucklefuck · 9 months ago
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sometimes I think abt how the months coming up to and the prom night in freshman year must feel to class swap sklonda. your perfect kid who has literally never gotten a single reprimand for anything does what can only be described as a quad crit crime combo and becomes a nerd punisher by the end of the night
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cherub014 · 3 months ago
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memo pad layton!! 🎩🧩
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moviememokeeper · 16 days ago
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Reca’s the type of man to look at you longingly while you’re doing the most mundane stuff
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captn3 · 6 months ago
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fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw
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og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more
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sticker-pop · 8 months ago
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Suzy's Zoo sticky note pad, year unknown
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scalproie · 9 months ago
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shaved him
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sciderman · 7 months ago
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Does that mean lefty is gonna be sleeping forever, or that he just needs a few more minutes then he’ll be good to go?
he needs one of these
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WAKE UP BITCH!
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formulaaone · 8 months ago
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Williams Racing: Logan got the summer break memo 😎
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maythedreadwolftakeyou · 1 month ago
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every now and then i see people reference that they played DAI when they were like. 15 years old or even earlier and I have to go out back and dig another shovelful of dirt out of my grave
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artbribery · 2 years ago
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Danny calling John Constantine a “discount, hyped-up voldemort wannabe” and complaining that “at least voldemort didn’t make that much paperwork for the ministry”
A list of why the insult is legit, maybe written by a spite fueled Danny, the soul tax collector, helped by Clockwork who wrote the file he’s getting his info from probably:
British
Magic
Manipulate, Mansplain, Manwhore
Bad habits
Soul splitting (!!!)
Involved in some weird shit
His house could kill you
Tax evasion
Mother dies and father resents him for reasons (in some version, or an orphan at some early point, either way)
Magical, special lineage connected to cunning
Dark arts knowledge
Met a lot of Ghosts but most don’t like him 
Dies?
But not really
Many contacts and connections everywhere
Killed people
People die around him (Different things)
Problems with the Government (mood but also >:( )
Grave robbing (implied? it has to have happened, i can’t believe otherwise)
...
You know what, a lot of crime in general, what the heck?
Asshole (should’ve been higher on the list honestly)
Gets a blood transfusion from an enemy and becomes stronger
Protected from mind control (Lucky)
Probably called you-know-who by someone at least once
Smart (???)
Changed his name and joined a band (So to speak)
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altschmerzes · 3 months ago
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a year ago to the day i kissed my wife for the first time. turns out you can do whatever you want forever and it Rules.
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skibasyndrome · 7 months ago
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SO TURNS OUT I COULD DO IT AFTER ALL
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WITH 11 MINUTES TO SPARE. LIKE A MADMAN
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BUT I DID IT
BA THESIS SENT OUT AND DONE AND OVER WITH !!!!!
thank you guys who reached out ily so much 😭😭😭💜💜💜
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wall-eye · 2 months ago
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HOURLY COMIC DAY IS TOMORROW. FOR THOSE OF US WHO DONT KNOW WHEN THIS GOES DOWN.
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