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This is an excerpt from Iris Murdoch’s “Word Child”, beautifully spoken by Williams.

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Michelle Williams starts her monologue with Latin conjugations of Love.

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He still thinks about her and where she ended up, despite the broken heart she left him with.
“I don’t see you often” hints to her keeping distance.

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He wonders if she still thinks about him…Does the memory of him make her feel anything?

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When you’re younger, your inhibitions are looser. As he got older, he thinks twice before dropping acid, but deep down inside, the desire is there.

Honestly…he’ll probably enjoy the experience more now that his thoughts and self-awareness are more formative.

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“Gold Lion” refers to the Gold lion advertising awards won by an Adidas ad in which Karen O contributed the vocals for. (http://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/47285/)

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Karen O is pleading with the person she is singing about to stay. She knows that they can’t possibly offer what she is willing to offer.

In the iconic music video for “Maps”, Karen explained that her tears were real, as Angus was supposed to be at the shoot. Her fragile state and (presumably) fragile state of the relationship came through in her absolutely immaculate performance for the video.

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Whilst the rest of the song is an ode to an unreachable beauty, the chorus focuses on the protagonist, his self-doubt and the conscience that he can’t walk away from the way he is.

He chides himself that he has no business being with this “angel.” He’s a creep, a weirdo and doesn’t deserve this precious feather of a woman. And this adds to his degenerate state.

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Cancun is a popular vacation destination in Mexico for Spring Breakers and hedonists of all sorts. Many secrets go down in Cancun that stay there:

Secrets could also a reference to the Secrets adults-only luxury resort in Cancun.

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She wanted to love him but instead she kept choosing to focus on the minutiae of life instead of him. Things like imperfections, her own priorities and she was never able to focus her energy onto him.

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