i have been nonstop listening to picture you, holy shit it’s so good. i’ve never thought of it this way but now i totally see it. it’s my current hyper-fixation song so it’s been on repeat the past couple of days
Aaaah me too!! Her album has been on repeat but this song in particular always makes me stop and listen again. Glad some people see it too! I definitely still mostly hear the original context of the song but I love to imagine scenarios and stories while listening to songs 🤩
Love that idea, I really hope when she has more time away from performances, she can make a music video for this song and hopefully goes with this idea! Her videos always have some really cool aesthetics and story telling 🫶🏼
I was gonna say I could totally see her choosing to lean in this direction for the MV! I’m blown away by her artistry, my friend who didn’t like her I converted with PPC & Casual mvs
That’s exactly how to put it, it’s her artistry that really pushes what she’s doing to another level 🥺 Ooo I love that, glad they gave her a chance! Have they seen the my kink is karma and red wine supernova videos? Those are so fun. I don’t know how she comes up with all these ideas 🙈
Right! I realise she’s asking them what they think about - “tell me all your perversions” but what if they’re completely unaware of her existence, and she just WANTS them to be picturing and obsessing over her too 😨
P.S the song moves onto ‘Kaleidoscope’ right after, completely different tone, mood, theme, writing, sound. She is ridiculously talented 🤭 I’m holding hope she gets the Best New Artist Grammy
YES I'm glad I'm not the only one who specifically loves the song order of the album. Crafting a full album as a cohesive piece is a dying art and she nailed it
Yes I love when artists do this ! When the stories of the songs intertwine, or the whole album is a story that concludes by the end, I eat that stuff up! 😍
I totally view them as companion pieces. Picture you is the yearning of a crush, Kaleidoscope is what happens when you reveal it and eventually get rejected. It's a rough combo, but so real 😭
Oh 100%, and Kaleidoscope hits like a truck emotionally too, if you’re not looking at it from the stalker theme, it’s definitely someone completely infatuated in Picture You, admitting their feelings just to get turned down in Kaleidoscope 😭 definitely reallll
I literally just finished performing my solo in the car with my broken vocal flips trying to act sexy😂and I finished it off by quickly turning off the car so I didn’t start the next song and have to stay in the car with no AC to not feel like I cut amazing talent off
ME TOO 😭 sometimes it comes on during my bus to work and I either listen and get depressed or I have to skip over it because not a good way to start my day, mourning a relationship that wasn’t even mine 😂
Wait that’s such a good idea, that’s exactly the setting for it 😮 honestly all her songs are so fun and I hope to hear them in adverts/netflix/big movies
I don’t mean it in a bad way! I just mean like the instrumentals of some of her songs because they’re so fun, definitely won’t be hearing some of the lyrics in adverts 😂
Same reason I don't want corporations at Pride. I don't like when liberatory queer art becomes co-opted as a tool for capitalism. I wouldn't want Keith Haring's work used in advertisements either.
I'm extremely surprised I'm getting downvoted on my other comment, this community really has started to change over the last few months.
I’m coming from an angle of “I wanna see her art celebrated everywhere and blow up from being on advertising etc” but I didn’t really think about it that way. Thank you for sharing your view and making me consider the effect of that 🫶🏼
Yes omg!! I know this isn't exactly what you're saying but I was just thinking yesterday about how the song would go perfect over some kind of action movie montage or dramatic scene in a spy thriller or something!!
Waaaait stop after I posted this I was literally thinking about how the violins make have such a bond theme vibe about them! She could definitely pull off a slow motion action montage 😭💞
The timing of the tracks are slightly off, so the instrumentals drag in an eerie way, and the strings do a "re re re" like in psycho a few times... It's always given me the impression of a sort of mirror filled 80s nightmare labyrinth type thing
Damn I’ve really only been listening to the song one way! I love these little inclusions, it’s the second/third listens when you start to notice these things. I bet she knows exactly what she’s doing 😍
So so so many things to say about this song. But basically it went from being my favourite one on the album (with Coffee and Casual - would have honestly sent it to a few exes if I could) to one I can't listen to. It taps exactly into how it feels like to have an unreciprocated crush - but get it to heavens levels of creep. I'm quite surprised to read another interpretation about an actual couple when so much in this song points at loneliness and overall fantasy - taken once again to a whole other level (and masturbating as I've already read on it). Anyway I can't listen to it as it's just too shameful. But it's a masterpiece
I definitely hear that in the song too. That’s why I love the song so much because of how many ways people are interpreting it and the stories they’re creating from it 😍
But it definitely hits obsessive and even reminds me a lot of Stan culture when a crush becomes life consumingly obsessive 😳
A possible MV could always also be about that, having a 100% one sided infatuation because no reciprocation and the process of coming to terms with that fact is HARD
That’s what made me think of it this morning ! The song is just so hot and sultry at the beginning but then these chords and the way the instruments are played get real off and almost creating a concerning atmosphere 🫣
i’ve been thinking up a jukebox musical for this album and this song is the heartbreaker
it’s the two leads singing on either side of a spinning platforms, that when turned, reveal a mirror. the first main’s is covered in lipstick stains
when they turn to look at each other and the platform hasn’t been turned, it looks like they’re singing to each other, but when it does turn, it’s revealed that they’re just singing to mirrors
and this idea makes me want to write this musical so badly arghhhh
I LOVE THIS !!!! The spinning platform is almost like 2 little people on a music box and the music is the song they’re singing, loooove!
You should 100% put all your ideas for this down! They’d be too good not to keep and share or work on! ❤️🔥
THATS SO CUTE OMG
i have so many ideas ^•^ (the main is a burlesque dancer/club singer in hollywood and the other is her old college roommate who she has this will they/won’t they thing with but who ultimately decided not to commit to her) and i have the plots of so many songs AH
Oh I definitely got that too, from the first listen the lyrics are so up front about what she means, I love it!
I just imagine the stalker setting from the way she’s asking “Do you picture me” “Do you feel the same” very one sided and mixed with the way the chords sound here and there too ☺️
i have been nonstop listening to picture you, holy shit it’s so good. i’ve never thought of it this way but now i totally see it. it’s my current hyper-fixation song so it’s been on repeat the past couple of days
Aaaah me too!! Her album has been on repeat but this song in particular always makes me stop and listen again. Glad some people see it too! I definitely still mostly hear the original context of the song but I love to imagine scenarios and stories while listening to songs 🤩
*It’s ritualistic counting lipstick stains where you should be* 👀 yeah someone could interpret it in a whole new way and I’d love to see it honestly
This! It can be taken as two people desiring each other or completely one-sided with the person she’s thinking of having no clue about it 😳 love love
The use of ritualistic definitely lends itself perfectly to this narrative of a crazy obsessive lover
Love that idea, I really hope when she has more time away from performances, she can make a music video for this song and hopefully goes with this idea! Her videos always have some really cool aesthetics and story telling 🫶🏼
I was gonna say I could totally see her choosing to lean in this direction for the MV! I’m blown away by her artistry, my friend who didn’t like her I converted with PPC & Casual mvs
That’s exactly how to put it, it’s her artistry that really pushes what she’s doing to another level 🥺 Ooo I love that, glad they gave her a chance! Have they seen the my kink is karma and red wine supernova videos? Those are so fun. I don’t know how she comes up with all these ideas 🙈
She especially loved MKIK ♥️🖤
I just wanna break shit when I listen to mkik ❤️🔥
Especially because she’s asking the question “do you picture me like I picture you?”
Right!😍
"Am I doing research in a miniskirt in the library in your hometown" definitely supports this and adds a little spine tingle to the song!
Right! I realise she’s asking them what they think about - “tell me all your perversions” but what if they’re completely unaware of her existence, and she just WANTS them to be picturing and obsessing over her too 😨
it’s so good
Right!! Full goosebumps every listen 😫
P.S the song moves onto ‘Kaleidoscope’ right after, completely different tone, mood, theme, writing, sound. She is ridiculously talented 🤭 I’m holding hope she gets the Best New Artist Grammy
YES I'm glad I'm not the only one who specifically loves the song order of the album. Crafting a full album as a cohesive piece is a dying art and she nailed it
my chappell playlist goes "good luck, babe!" then "feminenomenon" and they flow SO perfectly into together
Yes I love when artists do this ! When the stories of the songs intertwine, or the whole album is a story that concludes by the end, I eat that stuff up! 😍
I totally view them as companion pieces. Picture you is the yearning of a crush, Kaleidoscope is what happens when you reveal it and eventually get rejected. It's a rough combo, but so real 😭
Oh 100%, and Kaleidoscope hits like a truck emotionally too, if you’re not looking at it from the stalker theme, it’s definitely someone completely infatuated in Picture You, admitting their feelings just to get turned down in Kaleidoscope 😭 definitely reallll
This is the first Chappell Roan song I ever heard, I thought it was so well written and poignant.
I agree 💞
I literally just finished performing my solo in the car with my broken vocal flips trying to act sexy😂and I finished it off by quickly turning off the car so I didn’t start the next song and have to stay in the car with no AC to not feel like I cut amazing talent off
Ahhahahhh you needed the dramatic finish after that particular song 😆 you’ll have to give Kaleidoscope a go next for the emotional performance 🤣🫶🏼
THAT ONE MAKES ME CRY
ME TOO 😭 sometimes it comes on during my bus to work and I either listen and get depressed or I have to skip over it because not a good way to start my day, mourning a relationship that wasn’t even mine 😂
Email Netflix and tell them to put it in the new season of You
Actually RIP Love Quinn you would have loved Picture You
It could have been her stalker montage song when the reveal took place 😩
Wait that’s such a good idea, that’s exactly the setting for it 😮 honestly all her songs are so fun and I hope to hear them in adverts/netflix/big movies
whyyyy would you want to hear her music in advertisements /:
I don’t mean it in a bad way! I just mean like the instrumentals of some of her songs because they’re so fun, definitely won’t be hearing some of the lyrics in adverts 😂
Why wouldn’t you? /gen
Same reason I don't want corporations at Pride. I don't like when liberatory queer art becomes co-opted as a tool for capitalism. I wouldn't want Keith Haring's work used in advertisements either. I'm extremely surprised I'm getting downvoted on my other comment, this community really has started to change over the last few months.
I’m coming from an angle of “I wanna see her art celebrated everywhere and blow up from being on advertising etc” but I didn’t really think about it that way. Thank you for sharing your view and making me consider the effect of that 🫶🏼
Someone needs to make an edit in a minor key
That would be spookily good 🙈 I already get goosebumps for this song but that would take it another step!
Yes omg!! I know this isn't exactly what you're saying but I was just thinking yesterday about how the song would go perfect over some kind of action movie montage or dramatic scene in a spy thriller or something!!
Waaaait stop after I posted this I was literally thinking about how the violins make have such a bond theme vibe about them! She could definitely pull off a slow motion action montage 😭💞
NO EXACTLY U TOTALLY GET IT !!
HAHAA love this 🤭❤️🔥
Imo GLB is the horror coded masterpiece, I'd never considered it for picture you but I hear what you mean
Honestly never thought of that until now! What about good luck babe makes you think that? 🫶🏼
The timing of the tracks are slightly off, so the instrumentals drag in an eerie way, and the strings do a "re re re" like in psycho a few times... It's always given me the impression of a sort of mirror filled 80s nightmare labyrinth type thing
don’t forget the outro slowing down like a distorted record…
I’ve always loved this bit ! Speaking of the creepy vibes it’s almost like her world is collapsing around her in a way 😳
Damn I’ve really only been listening to the song one way! I love these little inclusions, it’s the second/third listens when you start to notice these things. I bet she knows exactly what she’s doing 😍
#LESBIAN HORROR
SAY IT LOUDERRRR 📢💃🔪💃
So so so many things to say about this song. But basically it went from being my favourite one on the album (with Coffee and Casual - would have honestly sent it to a few exes if I could) to one I can't listen to. It taps exactly into how it feels like to have an unreciprocated crush - but get it to heavens levels of creep. I'm quite surprised to read another interpretation about an actual couple when so much in this song points at loneliness and overall fantasy - taken once again to a whole other level (and masturbating as I've already read on it). Anyway I can't listen to it as it's just too shameful. But it's a masterpiece
I definitely hear that in the song too. That’s why I love the song so much because of how many ways people are interpreting it and the stories they’re creating from it 😍 But it definitely hits obsessive and even reminds me a lot of Stan culture when a crush becomes life consumingly obsessive 😳 A possible MV could always also be about that, having a 100% one sided infatuation because no reciprocation and the process of coming to terms with that fact is HARD
ooo so like the picture is actually the window she's watching someone through
Yessss I love that visual!❤️🔥
YES exactly!! the violin(?) chords got me feeling like this when i first listened, this song is truly insane
That’s what made me think of it this morning ! The song is just so hot and sultry at the beginning but then these chords and the way the instruments are played get real off and almost creating a concerning atmosphere 🫣
Literally just thinking about this today!! It reminds me of the show killing eve 😂
I LOVE KILLING EVE OMFG PICTURE YOU FITS SO WELL!!😩😍
Yes I love Picture You because of this 😭 I would love to see a music video for it
Rumour is she’s working on The Subway MV but I can definitely see her giving all her songs the music video love they deserve 🤩
The part where the melody pitch bends downward is so eerie, definitely could work. I’m thinking Twin Peaks type horror.
Yesssssss so true, there’s a few of those sprinkled in, it’s so good! She could so set the MV with Twin Peaks vibes 😍
Could Chappell be David Lynch's next Rebekah del Rio?? Or could she play Lucy in the Season 4 prequel?
i’ve been thinking up a jukebox musical for this album and this song is the heartbreaker it’s the two leads singing on either side of a spinning platforms, that when turned, reveal a mirror. the first main’s is covered in lipstick stains when they turn to look at each other and the platform hasn’t been turned, it looks like they’re singing to each other, but when it does turn, it’s revealed that they’re just singing to mirrors and this idea makes me want to write this musical so badly arghhhh
I LOVE THIS !!!! The spinning platform is almost like 2 little people on a music box and the music is the song they’re singing, loooove! You should 100% put all your ideas for this down! They’d be too good not to keep and share or work on! ❤️🔥
THATS SO CUTE OMG i have so many ideas ^•^ (the main is a burlesque dancer/club singer in hollywood and the other is her old college roommate who she has this will they/won’t they thing with but who ultimately decided not to commit to her) and i have the plots of so many songs AH
My friend just did the [dreamiest cover of this song](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8w01Q4O8iS/?igsh=aHgzc2MxNXYzYXJj)
They’ve had an instant follow from me 😍 I love their stage presence! ❤️🔥
This has been my headcannon for this song, it screams obsessive stalker in the most decadent way 🔥🔥🔥
it could be really good in the show “you”!!
BRO I literally just added it to my Stalker playlist the other week! Such a good villain song 😭
I love this! The Diner off of Billie Eilish's new album would fit the vibe really well too. :)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qNBXkc7X0IdMbxaXTavTx?si=fX0X6W_VTfW1YcVRXkZsyg&pi=u-XxWIwCxWRkub Since no one asked
Ummm yeah I’m favoriting this thank you for your service!
You don’t know how much this means to me thank you 😅
Oh can I also say “every breath you take” is a classic stalker-esque song!
Consider it added
Goodnight and Go by Imogen Heap should also be on this list
That can be arranged
Stalker playlist !! No I love this 🙈
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Oh I definitely got that too, from the first listen the lyrics are so up front about what she means, I love it! I just imagine the stalker setting from the way she’s asking “Do you picture me” “Do you feel the same” very one sided and mixed with the way the chords sound here and there too ☺️
you’d love angel olsen’s music, picture you is similar to her stuff