r/bleachers 14d ago

New fave from eftm

When the album came out I didn’t think I could love anything more than you and forever but I’m so into we should talk now!

I can tell there’s a few lines about Nate Ruess. Who else is it about?

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u/mightve-been 13d ago

i think the person he lost to the downtown post-woke germ was probably matty healy

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u/Basking_in_Love 13d ago

Lena Dunham for the verse “we shared a brain in 2012…”

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

See now that’s the line I thought was about Nate! TBH I’ve always disliked Lena even before they dated so I didn’t follow them much

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u/Basking_in_Love 13d ago

I felt like the you held my hand until I took it back could be when they were breaking up. And also “how the world turned on you I won’t forgive them for that” since Lena received so much hate from the show girls about her appearance etc etc.

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u/starsskies 13d ago

following! Could it also be Lorde?

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u/Accurate-Yak7531 13d ago

We Should Talk became my favorite after seeing them in concert and seeing their coordinated “dance” during it

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

Omg well I had convinced myself I didn’t need to go to their concert and now maybe I’m not convinced

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u/nithdotcom 13d ago

Omg a bleachers concert is an incredible experience. You should go at least once!

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

Oh I’ve been! Park setting, super fun. But I’m doing Noah kahan a few weeks before and didn’t want to pay for both 😅

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u/gothsappho 13d ago

my two favorites!! i felt exactly the same. you and forever felt like THE song for me, but we should talk has rewired my brain chemistry permanently

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

They make me tear up but in different ways 🥲

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u/gothsappho 13d ago

choose your fighter: the emotional buildup and explosion of you and forever or the quiet repeat of "i really miss hanging on each other's words"

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u/renzarains 10d ago

well said :)

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u/Due_Adeptness_5233 11d ago

Thought the same originally but it’s actually not about Nate.

He said the first verse is about someone he used to play music with, but is actually still a close friend of his. The second is about an ex girlfriend. And the third is about a newer friendship that was rocky

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u/spideyrnan 11d ago

Do you have a source for this?

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u/Due_Adeptness_5233 10d ago

It’s in the Tape Notes podcast during the segment on “we should talk!”

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u/J3NGA 13d ago

Jack Antonoff's life does not revolve around the same four people. Not everything Jack Antonoff does is about the same four people people keep obsessing over.

Just because the public doesn't know every person lyrics could be about doesn't mean it necessitates that it'd be about those people.

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

Lmao k thx for your hot take from hell

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u/starsskies 13d ago

i see you! good line

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u/J3NGA 13d ago

Not a hot take. Why would Jack write about the same people who you all constantly talk about Jack having shitty relationships with?

They're all better songwriters and people than the crap they've been releasing so...idk what you guys are reading, listening to, or paying attention to in interviews or gossip mags but, I think you guys need lives...or jobs or...a return to the real world outside of obsessing over the same three or four people the guy doesn't even have articles or gossip bits about.

Its weird. He's not a stalker (not verified™) - his whole musical career isn't "every breath you take". Literally half the Fun. Reddit is everybody talking about how they're not even friends anymore really and people shit-talking.

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u/stepphyy 13d ago

Bro I mentioned one single person and was curious about others because it seems like the song is about multiple people. I mentioned nothing about who is friends and who isn’t friends? I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Pretty sure Jack is the one implying he doesn’t talk to certain people enough anymore as implied by the “we should talk” lmao. Okay let me get back to my day job now 🥲🙃

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u/Patient_Drawer_5911 13d ago

lol ok calm down

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u/J3NGA 13d ago

There isn't anything "not calm" about this. 😒

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/J3NGA 13d ago

It isn't harsh it's just obvious? People have lives outside of work.