when you just get it

Hi blog. I'm back with another crappy post because I can't seem to shut up. I should be studying math, but here I am, nonetheless. Today, I wanted to discuss that very distinct moment when you just get it.

This happened to me a few months ago with Charli XCX's BRAT.

Although I’d love to say I had a brat summer, I’d be lying. I heard mutterings about it—‘brat summer’ this, ‘Kamala IS brat’ that. I tried listening to the album once, but it didn’t really spark anything in me. I simply didn’t get it.

Fast forward to October, 

Charli released the Brat remix album, known as Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat. While watching Fantano react to the songs, something just clicked in my head. From one day to the next, I was obsessed with the remix album, the deluxe album, and with THE album.

Why did it suddenly make sense? I think it all comes down to identity. I’m not a party girl; I’ve never been to a party. To be honest, I can barely handle the parties in my village. So I didn’t really feel like I identified with the album in any way. I didn’t fit the vibe, the mood, or the world Charli had created. But the thing is, I had only seen the surface of this album. I didn’t change, my perception did. I went from seeing it as an album about a party girl having fun to something much deeper, something I could relate to—a party girl who's struggling with life but deciding to turn it into fun. It’s such a powerful idea.

Suddenly, I felt like I was exploring a different side of myself, unleashing my wildness. It's turned into my favorite album. It never gets old; it makes me feel so much. My eyes always get teary when I listen to Girl, So Confusing.

This same thing happened to me with Lana Del Rey. I found her songs quite boring before, a nice background track for a nap. However, one day I was feeling sad, so I put on her music and suddenly, I was in the world of the sad girl—the tragically beautiful. Addison Rae is another great example. Yes, her music might not have the best lyrics and maybe her 'rebrand' is all a facade, but she has created a world that is so easy to slip into.

In conclusion, that marvelous feeling of discovering a whole new world, comes down to how your identity fits into the artist's world. Sometimes you can think they're incompatible, causing that disconnect. Seeing different parts of ourselves, changing our perspective, is hard and maybe that's the power of art, that it forces us to connect with parts of ourselves we never even knew we had.

I’ll see you again when you just get it.

Drawing 'Hating pop music doesn't make you deep' done by me :)