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Did I abondoned my thesis to draw Louis in designer runway looks I like? Yes, yes I did. 

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Yaaaaas! Legalized it here in the Philippines 🇵🇭!

"It's fuckin amazing, man. It's fucking amazing. It's great for perspective, man, especially in my world like you need to be able to switch off in my world, man, it's good for that shit, definitely and also those social moments, man, when you're chilling together, It's cool, man, it's lovely."

-Louis on cannabis. (27 September 2022)

via Zach Sang Show

He is a vampire

Harry: i like girls

Louis:

👆🏻 Finger pointing 👆🏻 and flashbacks!!! 💜

You’re totally right!

“I like girls!”

Louis:

Zayn:

Niall:

Liam:

WHAT IN THE WATTPAD-

My mind 🤯😉😋🤤

He definitely looks good while doing the 😁

Yummy? I…? - posted 12.09

how to never forget what you've studied ⌛

how to never forget what you've studied 🐊 i never thought i would be able to write a post like this but i guess if my revision tips are helping me solidify my memory, it should help you all as well!

honestly, i don't study much before tests. if my overall revision is super good and i could write paragraphs on any given topic, I'm good to go. for example, i have this chapter that i haven't revised in a month but i would dive right into it if i was asked to give a surprise test because i remember each and every line out there.

to reach this long term memory stage, here are a few tips i follow everyday before a test so that you can get those marks too!!

- organize, organize, organize 📚 and by that, i just don't mean your study routines and plans. organize your desk, organize your books, organize your mind! you can't study on a messed up table with no space to lay open one book without having it on top of others. you can't study with a mind full of thoughts either.

solution : get a journal and write down all your thoughts. the tiny dots, the bigger bubbles of thoughts, everything. clean your desk every single time you're done studying for the day. i do that the night before so that i can wake up to a tidy desk.

- be extra with everything 🛸 got a test you wanna smash? hi, revision is the key!!

solution : revise more often than necessary. recall words in the shower. recall dates while eating alone at a table. relate current events and dates with your studying. this proves really effective coz you're keeping in touch with the information you want your brain to digest 🧠

- plan your hours 📖 got a huge load of studying to do but you feel like twenty-four hours is not enough?

solution : divide your hours. i break my hours into a daily test, anki revision, going through mind maps, writing notes if i got any that day and previewing before classes and believe me, all these take me five to six hours and I'm already halfway done for the day.

- write and rewrite 😤 reading and rereading a paragraph but can't seem to memorize it?

solution : write and rewrite and do it all over again until you know it by heart. writing tricks your brain to focus on what you're doing physically than just having to go through what you're reading.

- list of doubtful concepts 📃 nagging doubts keep bothering you when you're revising or studying for a test?

solution : keep a list when you're studying. scribble any unknown or weak concepts that you wouldn't want to go to the examination hall without studying. it's just that when you're studying and you come across a weak concept, it would take you a lot of time to get it over with. however, by writing down the weak concept, you move on with the studying and come back to that concept later on so you're not wasting a great deal of time

🔥 pro tip for distractions : the above method can also be used for distractions that bug you when you're studying. write down your distractions on a piece of paper whenever you feel like your brain has wandered off. by doing this, you're putting your distracting thoughts on hold and not just diving straight into it while pretending to study 😩✏️

there you go, guys, 5 tips to never forget what you study! follow me to stay updated on my next post :

🔜 steps to prioritizing your self-growth 🌿

Harry is so lucky

i think the way louis markets himself is SO interesting, because its so different from every other popular artist out there. in hollywood its basically a given that if you want to become a big star you will have to be sexualized out the wazoo (besides some exceptions) but for louis thats almost nonexistent. none of his songs are about sex, nothing is racy or revealing or raunchy, i think the farthest he goes is talking about kissing. in all of his photoshoots its very much almost proving a point to show no skin at all, with high collars, long pants, long sleeves, etc and lots of big powerful stances and searing eye contact. you dont even see the media sexualizing him either, there are no articles talking about how sexy he is or talking about how his latest music video was about certain sexual acts. i know thats probably due to a lot of factors but i just think its so wild to think about how anti-sexualized louis is in every aspect of his life. his songs, his fashion, even his fans dont interact with him the way we see het harries do. have you ever heard of a het louie that goes as far as harries do? no way man. i just think about this a lot.

Please put LOUIS THE FISH instead

jesus christ did he cut the slit on the side of those shorts himself??? you CANNOT tell me they sell them like that

Less than 24 hours and we have this analysis 🤯

Change by Louis Tomlinson 

Analysis 

My first thought when I heard Change is timeless. That’s an amazing, rare achievement. Between Change and Copy, LT2 is shaping up to be a really incredible album that I’ll listen to for the rest of my life because I love it. 

On Change, Louis does a very good job of changing up his delivery and the instrumental to keep it fresh. My only complaint about Walls (album) was that there were times where it felt a bit repetitive and stagnant to me. Change suggests that Louis has totally grown out of that. 

The song starts intimately, then grows into the kind of arena rock I love so much and Louis is so good at. He keeps you interested. Toward the end, we get the psychadelic-via-brit-pop influenced drone which is also a part of KMM’s magic. Between the lyric, delivery, and instrumental, it’s an astonishingly direct moment in the best way.

You might consider that the first part of the song is dripping in nostalgia. It might recall Louis’ romanticized days as a teenager going for cheap beer at an indie club. And it has the sound to match. Then, Louis knocks us into the present. He says ‘stop getting lost in nostalgia and regrets, you have a present to live and a future to look forward to’ and punctuates the message with a psychedelic vibe - almost as though we are being awakened with realization, gaining higher insight. 

There’s also a touch of jazz influence, or perhaps more specifically, Amy Winehouse. I think this influence is the key to the magic Louis has achieved with Copy, Change, and his Beautiful War cover.  Louis describes himself as a subdued and moody performer and the intensity of that attitude gels perfectly with the influence. It shows off his musicality. It’s sexy. It’s genius.

Now, on to the lyrcis! I’ll be using my own version of the lyrics. I will post relevant revisions and link them [here] if necessary when we have an official copy.

‘Oh, oh, ah-oh-oh

Turn on the lights

It’s easy to see

We were just getting by

We weren’t complete

Louis starts by setting up the story telling us that he’s shedding light on a problem, specifically an interpersonal problem. It isn’t yet clear to whom exactly ‘we’ refers.  It may be one other person or a group. It could allude to a romantic partner, fans, friends, etc. 

It parallels “Lights Up” which has the lyric ‘Lights up and they know who you are/do you know who you are’. In both songs the light exposes a troubled sense of identity. Harry feels unsure, Louis feels incomplete. Both songs are retrospective. I think it is fair to say that like Lights Up, Change is a reflection on growing up in the limelight. Harry felt public observation exposed a conflicted sense of self and here, Louis feels that exposure reveals an emptiness. 

It hasn’t been long

That I’ve been away

I don’t know why

Everything’s changed

Louis says it hasn’t been long that he has been away. Maybe a brief time away revealed changes he hadn’t noticed. Maybe he’s an unreliable narrator, and he has been away for a long time, but he feels like he hasn’t. 

‘Cause inside

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights 

These two lines cement this as a song about growing up. Louis has commented several times on feeling his age. This is probably in part due to pop music’s unhealthy obsession with youth, but he also has very legitimate reasons to feel his life has passed him by - first with the incredible, demanding pace of touring with One Direction that removed him from ordinary life and then with the series of personal tragedies as well as the professional setbacks that brought us to today. In Fearless Louis asks someone if they ‘remember being young and strong enough to get it wrong in front of all these people’ and in Change, Louis still does feel young. It’s the dissonance between how he feels and the passage of time that stings.

Silver streets and the neon signs

My suspicion is that “silver streets” doubles as a way of describing how pavement looks at night and as a way of communicating that this memory is romanticized - coated in silver. There is also a song called Silver Streets and a radio show called Silver Street that could, in theory, have nostalgic value for Louis. Silver Streets by BOY seems to have some thematic resonance with Change.

Neon signs may harken back to his Miss You music video in which pink triangle neon signs featured prominently. 

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

A clever inversion of “I don’t know why / Everything’s changed / ‘Cause inside”

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

This seems to be Louis telling the other part of his ‘we’ that they can still rely on him just the same as they could in the past. It’s important to him that he is still there for the people.

The kids are alright

That used to be me

Always losing our minds

Out on the street

The Kids Are Alright is a phrase which originated with the The Who song and it is also the title of the band’s rockumentary which might remind Louis of his 1D days. (Also, the film The Kids Are Alright was the first mainstream comedy to depict lesbians raising children together.)

The phrase means that the current generation, for all of their problems and the hand-wringing of their parents, is capable and determined and will be able to grow into responsible adults. “That used to be me” adds the dark implication that, now no longer a kid, he’s may be not alright.  

“Always losing our minds/ Out on the street” evokes the Wellington incident where the boys were literally drunk and running through the streets. Make note of the word “Out” which may be a double entendre meaning both Out as in outside and Out in the queer sense.

A trip down memory lane 

Houses all look the same

There’s different names on the gates

And all the people have changed

Oh it’s such a shame, 

nothing stays the same

This line could be very literal because it’s what you experience when you grow up and people move and the place you lived changes. It may also be a  metaphor for people changing. They look like themselves, but they get married and change their names, and who they are inside changes as they grow up. 

Fame is said to put people into a state of arrested development at the age they got famous. For Louis, he may be feeling 18 inside while he sees his friends maturing through the ordinary rites of passage that sudden fame denied him. And now he can’t revisit the things he left behind when he left home.

‘Cause inside

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights 

Silver streets and the neon signs

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

When you gonna realize

You don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright,

you’ve still got the rest of your life

I am completely obsessed with the brutality of this lyric. I love it. It resonates with my own experience of growing into an adult. I actually had a conversation with a professor that was very important to me which could be poetically depicted this way - I was really distraught over how certain things in my life had played out. He made the point that life is as beautiful and exciting as it is because we only experience them once. (And lemme tell you that man knew a thing or two about an exciting life)

Louis separates “you” from “I” here. You is another person he’s talking to. Maybe “you” is another version of himself or (more likely) “you” is a specific person this is directed at. He’s waiting for this person to realize they are lost in lamenting the past. He asks what the point is of analyzing the past  and wondering what could’ve been when you have a life ahead of you to live.

If the “you” here is Harry, then the obvious parallel is Fine Line with the repeating line “We’ll be alright” but the parallels go deeper. The first two verses of Fine Line might detail the conflict at the heart of this back-and-forth but the last two are more thematically relevant. “There’s things that we’ll never know” implies that he has been thinking about what could’ve been in another life and is coming to terms with the fact that they were not meant to be. “My hand’s at risk, I fold” followed by “Crisp trepidation / I’ll try to shake this soon ”  might relate to the idea of overanalysing, prioritizing ‘what if’ over the future he wants to live. I also think the idea of not getting another life is relevant to Harry because to me it seems apparent that Harry has a very real fear of dying (and his loved ones dying) which comes through on Fine Line and he explicitly stated while on Ellen’s Burning questions at 1:48.

Although I believe firmly in Larry and tonight only reinforced that belief, Larry or not, it’s important to remember that Harry and Louis were close friends in the same band for 5 years and experienced a lot of the same things. Harry’s the younger of the two so it makes some sense that he’s in a position that Louis has already worked through and made peace with. Their respective songs about this concept of making peace with the past reflect their individual struggles to move forward and create a sense of self beyond the band. 

Now it’s time to realise you don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright

“Now” points to time as the factor that moves this person from one of the kids who are alright to the adult who has to make peace with the things that happened in their past and the fact there are no do-overs.

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights

Silver streets and the neon signs

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

“I know it’ll be alright” into “We’re still the kids on the Friday nights”  softens the message up quite a bit. The revelation of ‘you don’t get another life’ reveals the answer to ‘why’. It says we are the same people who did those things, even though they are now in the past. 

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

And even though time has passed, you can still rely on Louis

When you gonna realise

You don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright,

You’ve still got the rest of your life

Now infused with the spirit of taking on the future together, there’s something very hopeful about concluding the song on this lyric.

Moving the story along in the verses and bending the meaning of the chorus is probably my favorite approach to songwriting and holy shit does Change deliver. 

Louis, you beautiful genius, I can’t wait to hear this in all it’s HQ glory, in it’s studio form, and to hear all of its companion songs. And I really can’t wait to sing these lines back to you through my tears. 

man, what a song

Harry's whiny looouuu and louis telling harry he can't kiss him now in the brazil bread van

They’re the absolute worst. Can you imagine having to put up with them on tour? 😅😅😅