Ok I’ve heard Stupid Song 100 times and STILL get chills.
If you watch till the end, I explain why I haven’t done album reactions in a while but I’m very excited to do more of them moving forward! What other albums would you like me to react to?
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Olivia's father is a therapist! I think that contributed to her self-awareness

I love the fact that there is a sense of melancholy in the "so in love" part of the album and there is love in the "you seem pretty sad" part.

What stands out about Olivia is that she’s not only a talented storyteller and songwriter, but also knows how to use vocal dynamics to bring her songs to life. The way she shifts between subtle, restrained moments and powerful emotional peaks really sells the story she’s telling. That’s a skill not many singers develop at such a young age.

after a whole 2 weeks im still fascinated by how she was able to portray so many shades of "love" in the first 7 songs... the infatuation of drop dead, longing on stupid song, devotion on honeybee, dependence in maggots for brains, optimism in u + me = <3, possession in my way, and finally fusion/attachment in purple

YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A THERAPIST

What I love about this album is how little Olivia focuses on the guy in question. With most other albums or songs about love or breakups, we get a lot of what the guy was like, what he looked like, how he mistreated her, but in you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, Olivia is focusing on herself and her feelings rather than the relationship or the guy himself.

also, expectations isn't about louis (her now ex boyfriend), it's about trying to date other people after a serious relationship, specially meeting people in dating apps, bars, etc, and the challenges of finding people you actually like, not that you just like because of that adrenaline high after having a break up ☠️

Really weird having a realisation at 44 that I relate to what a 22-year-old is feeling. I clearly still have a lot of work and healing to do :(

Everyone I’ve seen react to this album says “aww cute” to maggots for brains and to the line purple “we fight over who I hang out with like a real couple.” So glad to see a normal reaction these lyrics!!

I think something lots forget, specially during Begged, is that they were doing distance at the time  (she mentions it in several songs), which is such a different kind of relationship. Also coming from the other albums and hearing how basically all her exes have emotionally cheated on her, gaslighted her into thinking she's crazy for asking about a girl, dated immediately after their break up or directly flirting with her friends in front of her, it's not weird she has such issues with wanting to know she's the only one, which is an even bigger insecurity in long distance relationships, and affirm to them how faithful she is too; so The Cure truly is the heart of this album, showing how this love is good and real but she still can't fully enjoy it or make it work bc she's still dragging all of these issues with her own insecurities she hasn't got over and deluded herself into thinking would disappear once she found the right guy, and found out that's not how it works precisely bc she did find him and it still wasn't working, leading it back to her, making her self aware of her problems and how this all works.

A lot of people used the songs to project themselves and their relationships, making them be all about hating the guy and putting all the blame on him like the album is about how he mistreated her, ruining the relationship, when that's the opposite of what's actually going on and ignores this much deeper message about her own issues and insecurities and how you need to work on yourself and love yorself for a good relationship to work, bc they're and need way more than just real love. And when those issues reflect on the relationship that makes it not just about her anymore, it makes the relationship not work for any, making them unhappy on it, which is why it's so cool too that What's Wrong With Me is a duet.

Sometimes relationships just don't work, doesn't mean someone fucked the other one, you can break up in good terms even if it hurts. Olivia always remembers Louis with a lot of love and nice words in interviews, as her first true love, who taught her what actual romantic love feels like, and that's so sweet, so seeing people misunderstand the album to claim he's terrible and hate on him has been disappointing, not as a fan of him (haven't ever seen his work tbh), but in general and as an Olivia fan seeing this amazing work she did, and as a person seeing how crazy people can get with insulting celebrities online sometimes over them just making up what they wanted to understand from something.

As a fellow therapist, I love how much I learn with Olivia. I find it so precious the way she finds all these different ways of expressing her feelings, specially from the perspective of the one going through it (and not as the one “analysing” it, like us and our textbooks 😝). Sometimes it is almost as if we were in therapy and she is telling me how she’s feeling. I’m really happy we have someone writing and singing in the way she does, with her brutal honesty and self-awareness, allowing a lot of people to borrow her words for their own feelings.

Also, love your takes on the songs 🤍

It amazes me how Olivia picks happier melodies for the 'girl so in love' side, but the lyrics are not very happy. She shows us that what she's feeling is normal, even though it's not, and during the 'you seem pretty sad' side, she finally realizes that not everything will end happily, but she still has to adapt and move on. That's why I love Olivia so much!

I think this is the first time I hear an album and feel "omg, so that horrible love/obsession happened to you too?" It was EXACTLY like that for me too, this sweet, intense and full of fear.

I love how you don't just listen to one phrase and stop the music to analyse, you listen to everything and process before talking. It's so so comforting

50% of the album got me crying on my bed, 50% got me dancin' like crazy 😭

I think in honeybee, when she says “but even when im quiet, i love you baby i promise” is a direct reference to the last line “its too hard to describe this in a way thats honest” that sometimes she is unable to describe how deeply she feels for her partner in a completely honest way, leading to her and her feelings being “quiet” in that moment, but also reassuring him that she loves him.

I think what really made everything make sense especially when she says she feels sick and not well is that Olivia admitted in an interview recently that she was struggling with depression during the relationship.

There is almost meaning in each song like in 'drop dead' she said, "I hope you never finish that beer" and in 'cigarette smoke' she says "five beers in fridge."

In purple she says "your red" (love) and my blue (sadness)" which if you mix them it forms purple, sadness, melancholy, angsty-ness.

In honeybee's last chorus it says "Even when I'm quiet I promise" and cuts the "I love you, baby" part which was in the chorus' which symbolises that she's quiet but she still love him as the previous chorus says.

In 'less' she says "I wish, I wish, I wish, you loved me less" she repeats 'I wish' three times which is she used all of her three wishes, and I have never been the same.

And also 'purple' is the turning point of the album, and it lies in the middle of the album—7th track— and it ends on 'sad' and that's the turning point.

In 'stupid song' she says, "I'm thread on your shirt that's coming undone" and in 'the cure' she says, "I'm unraveled"


And moreover you reaction was mind blowing, I saw many reaction videos, they'd stop the video mid song and keep talking about the lyrics for like half and hour, they don't even read lyrcs, like they be doing other stuff while listening and it feels so off. But yours how you at the end talk about the song and how you listen to the music like putting all your attention in the lyrics was so good. I love this video, I'll watch it over and over again. 🩷

(Sorry for grammatical mistakes, English is my fifth language)

By far THE BEST reaction to this awesome album