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November 3rd, 2016 11:50am

Draw A Circle Perfectly Around Her Heart


Heavy Heart “Teenage Witch”

The music sounds a bit more “teenage vampire” to me, if we’re being honest. But teenage witches are more interesting to me than teenage vampires, in part because while the metaphor of vampires is more about adults lusting for youth, witchcraft is about wanting to claim the powers of adulthood. It’s all secret knowledge and rituals and sisterhood, and often a lot of lust and rivalry. It’s barely a metaphor for being a teen girl – it’s more just an exaggerated power fantasy, like superheroes. This is the feeling Heavy Heart are tapping into here, filling this romantic and hyper-dramatic sort of shoegaze ballad with this mix of fascination, envy, and unprocessed lust for some other woman. The lyrics on the chorus get creepily possessive – “I want it, and no one can have it / so what if it isn’t worth it” – but I think the real power of this song is someone deciding that they can feel this way, and getting off on that. After all, a lot of witchcraft is just owning your desires without shame.

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