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Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “End Of Summer” is the narrator’s quiet, mature, and heartbreaking surrender to the end of his “magic” relationship. The “summer”—his “ethereal connection” and second chance—is over.…
Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “Afterthought” is the agonizing, paranoid, and humiliating realization that the “ethereal connection” has dissolved into a one-sided “situationship.” Following the “You’re lost” ultimatum in the previous…
Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “See You On Monday (You’re Lost)” is the moment the Deadbeat narrator’s “ethereal connection” crashes into reality. The song is a conversation where his partner finally…
Tame Impala’s “Ethereal Connection” is the sound of a “deadbeat’s” brain breaking in the best possible way. This song is the narrator’s stunned, disoriented reaction after his attempt at total…
Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “Obsolete” is a paranoid, anxiety-fueled song about the “deadbeat” narrator’s inability to accept the “piece of heaven” he was given in the previous track. Convinced he…
Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “Piece Of Heaven” captures the disorienting, euphoric shock of a hopeless person being granted a miracle. Following his total surrender to isolation in “Not My World,”…
Opening Summary: Tame Impala’s “Not My World” is the sound of life inside the “oblivion” the narrator chose in the previous track. It is a song of profound alienation, detachment,…
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