Cloudbelly: “Fascinated”

Uplifting, deep forest folk rock. It’s Cloudbelly, straight outta western Mass. Our highlighted track “Fascinated” is a sweep-you-off-your-feet statement about love and loss. You can imagine this song playing as the credits roll on one of the headier specimens of teen romance films.

Picture this: in the final scene, guy and girl meet in a courtyard. The guy’s let down the girl a thousand times, and each time they’ve played out a formulaic ritual of grief, acceptance, and some kind of forgiveness.

Except it’s not so much forgiveness as the girl not respecting herself enough to move on, and the guy being too dumb to realize what he’s got in front of him. So when he reveals one final infidelity, half-bashfully & half-brazenly, he expects the same cycle to repeat.

But instead of her face shrinking in grief, a smile forms on her lips, as she realizes that she no longer cares and has found the strength to move onwards and upwards (personal growth related to a B-plot not detailed here).

The guy is surprised, rocked out of the familiar drama, face full of confusion. But the girl is not confused at all, and, as she turns away, the camera pulls up, letting us see her walk away with confidence and joy across the courtyard, as the city skyline comes into view, and the couple’s trials & tribulations become reabsorbed in that hulking, sobbing, rejoicing mass of humanity that surrounds us all.

Cue “Fascinated.” Off the full-length i know, i know, i know.

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