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  • 6 weeks ago
pupsies dropped by Genius to break down her song “misery.” The young hyperpop star brought all her whimsy as she got into the meaning behind the song, the symbolism and imagery throughout her music, her writing process, and more!

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00:00I know you care about me like I know you love me like I know you love me bro
00:05sometimes it just gets so intense and then that's what creates the misery
00:15misery is about this really important like connection I have in my life I was like going
00:21through it I was like oh my gosh like we can't talk anymore and that's kind of painful that's
00:28basically what it's about just about those feelings and going through that really
00:32I miss that kind of misery the kind where you were nice to me but only in the evening so
00:38I ask am I
00:39just streaming you know obviously it's like oh why would you miss misery but you have to remember
00:43they're nice to me only in the evening though and in the evening when I said the evening I thought
00:47hey that's kind of symbolic like the evening like maybe at night maybe when other people aren't
00:51around maybe when I'm only feeling bad you know and I'm only depressed and then you feel like you
00:55have to be nice to me it creates the juxtaposition very quickly in the first like chorus and that's
01:00just like the that's the conflict you know I love you so much that it's dripping dripping from my arms
01:07and such I'm sorry I know I'm too much to love to trust I'm nothing but I'm that kind of
01:12imagery with
01:12the dripping from my arms and such I thought it rhymed first of all I need something to rhyme
01:16and also I was like I don't want to be too blunt and just outright say it like I kind
01:21of want it to
01:21be implied and be something you can visualize more and then also like maybe it's subtle enough that
01:26people won't directly clock it unless they're they're that kind of person it was meaningful to
01:31me and I thought this is an okay way to put it which obviously later I contradicting myself because
01:36I say it pretty bluntly I've been trying to do less saying and more showing in my writing
01:44you were what I could believe in since I have nobody else I keep screaming I keep breathing
01:49it's the living I can't help the person who this song is about it's pretty much the only person
01:54in my life I feel like I can truly trust when you're living like that and you're living in a
01:59constant like seeking for the next breath that you can inhale just to like like I imagined it like
02:04someone just gasping for air and trying to breathe because that's how it feels it's just like this
02:08sense of helplessness some people might say it's uh self-imposed but I think some people just uh
02:14get a little unluckier when it comes to social life than others it's the misery because you can
02:19tell me how much that you care and I know it's true but yeah you need to get me out
02:24your hair
02:25I know you care about me like I know you love me like I know you love me bro but
02:31you still trying
02:32to act like you don't love me and I know you love me I don't know you know what I
02:35mean but like we
02:36can't really be talking because I mean we can't be talking but sometimes it just gets so intense
02:41you know so it's kind of like it's kind of like that and then that's what creates the misery because
02:44it's like again the conflict of interest is what we have special what's that mean why can't you choose
02:50me is it greed this isn't lust no fairy dust it's fun it's what you see I know that some
02:54people say
02:55like when you have those intense feelings oh you can't have intense feelings for someone like that
02:58and it not be something based in lust or like you're just being delusional but like no like I'm serious
03:03it's like everything I see and everything I've done and everything in the way I care and everything
03:06how I feel that's genuinely 100% how I feel that's not me putting on an act that's not me
03:11being
03:11delusional no no no no no I'm not being delusional like it's for real how I feel and I thought
03:16that also
03:17did like a good visual because when I thought about that about that I thought of like Tinkerbell
03:20in the movies and now she kind of sprays her little fairy dust and she can get a little jealous
03:24and that was like I thought that was cute in my head misery and knowing I love you and had
03:29to leave
03:29the misery that I can't shake the misery I bleed so when I said the misery I bleed actually when
03:36I
03:36recorded it the first line that I had written was the misery I breathe but then I was like hold
03:42up
03:42I should have said bleed instead because that goes back to what I said in the verse and references it
03:46and then you pull together the visualization
03:49first to feel the kind of misery the kind where you are nice to me but only in the evening
03:55so I
03:55ask am I just dreaming how to heal the kind of misery the kind where you are nice to me
04:01but only in
04:02the evening so I ask am I just dreaming when I write my songs I don't think of them in
04:07terms of chorus
04:08verse or anything I just kind of sing whatever I'm gonna sing and usually I have a hook and then
04:13I
04:14write the rest of how I feel around the hook when I wrote that I think I was thinking like
04:17I want to
04:18show that like I'm also wanting to heal it you know like I don't want to feel that way
04:24because I know that you care because I swear it ain't fair I'll slim my wrist and show you I'll
04:33dare
04:34to do anything I love you I love you with everything yeah that part of the song was definitely like
04:41a
04:41break point and I and I like I think I said I freestyled that part of the song because I
04:46was
04:46like yo I can't just repeat this bridge again I gotta put something else in here so while I was
04:50singing I just started singing what I felt and then I was like hey that ended up rhyming that
04:53sounded good and I like got to like a really high point with the vocals and like really strong
04:57it is very blunt which kind of you know it's like oh no more visualization we know exactly what
05:03I'm talking about now and I think it kind of is like desperate like the I love you I love
05:07you
05:08like it's like a it's just a desperation and that's just how I how I felt because I feel like
05:12the rest of the song is kind of like a like oh I'm just talking I'm just telling you but
05:17then it's
05:17like there it's like it's bubbling up and that's how I feel and I'm also a big fan of like
05:21when songs
05:21have like a really big build up and then I I know it talks a lot about things that are
05:27very like
05:28sensitive subjects those are all things that I've been through myself at least having some place where
05:33you feel like someone understands me can sometimes make it a little bit easier to not always indulge
05:40in the misery

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