{"id":5580,"date":"2022-02-06T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2022-02-06T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:36:33","slug":"review-if-i-could-make-it-go-quiet-girl-in-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/06\/review-if-i-could-make-it-go-quiet-girl-in-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: if i could make it go quiet- Girl in Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

This would\u2019ve been the month that Girl in Red would come to the Netherlands to give a concert in TivoliVredenburg, in honor of her album if i could make it go quiet<\/em>. The concert is postponed till May, but we can still listen to the album that came out last April. It\u2019s an album that made the whole lesbian community go quiet (and a lot of people outside of that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we dive into all the songs, I would like to explain a little about Girl in Red. She is an icon widely known in the LGBTQ+ community. There is a thing (yes, I\u2019m about to expose some of the secret language used within the LGBTQ+ community) where people ask others \u201cdo you listen to girl in red?\u201d, which means \u201care you gay?\u201d, or more specifically \u201care you a lesbian?\u201d. This can only be asked by other members of the LGBTQ+ community of course, because it\u2019s also a sign that you show interest in the person you ask. Otherwise you can just ask if they\u2019re gay. I have no idea why Girl in Red is used for this question, because there are a lot of other queer musicians. But I do know that her music is very specific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This album contains 11 songs that I would describe as \u201clesbian moods\u201d. A few of the numbers are applicable to a bigger audience (and all of them are bops), but all together it\u2019s one big lesbian mood. The album opens with \u201cSerotonin\u201d, a song about feeling bad in general. Although it\u2019s highly relatable to probably the entire world, Girl in Red dives a little deeper into specific parts of feeling bad that may not be known to everyone. She sings about intrusive thoughts, something that is impetuous, but important to hear about. The song ends in Norwegian, which probably is a representation of the voice in her own mind. This part is not even really understandable in the song, so I would describe it as indistinctive brain noises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second song is \u201cDid you come?\u201d, which is not actually about sex, although it can be seen as a sneer to straight men (you can fill in why yourself). The song is about two things, cheating and jealousy. I would go for the cheating, and then jealousy because of this. It\u2019s a different kind of getting hurt when someone cheats on you of course, and that\u2019s captured by this song. It\u2019s not especially a lesbian mood, but it shows specific feelings, which are part of every song in this album. Remarkable is also the little parts of melody that are the same as in Serotonin, creating unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This song is followed by \u201cBody and Mind\u201d, which is simply about how hard it is to realize to give yourself a break, especially that this requires attention to more than just your body. It\u2019s just a song for some great advice that honestly everyone needs in life. I would expect this song to be just really chill, but that\u2019s not Girl in Reds style. The music has a certain flow that keeps you on your toes, which is something special by these lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth song is called \u201dhornylovesickness\u201d, a song about missing someone you love. First this song made me think of the stereotypical long distance relationships queer people often really seem to have, but when the song is about halfway you realize this song is about a broken relationship. The song contemplates how much it hurts to have to miss someone in whatever way, something that needs to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this comes \u201cMidnight love\u201d. I don\u2019t want to call favorites in this album, but I also kinda do, so this is my absolute favorite. This song chases after so many relatable feelings that I am sure everyone has felt them. Yet nobody talks about it, because we are told not to feel like this. It is about jealousy, not feeling good enough and yet choosing for yourself. It goes against all the \u2018jealousy is bad\u2019 and \u2018you\u2019re perfect as you are, don\u2019t compare yourself to others\u2019. While both of these things aren\u2019t entirely wrong, sometimes you just cannot help yourself. It is okay to feel this. \u201cMidnight love\u201d covers this all in a relatable situation where I think:  \u201cYes I would\u2019ve thought exactly the same as Girl in Red is singing right here.\u201d There is another reason why this song is my favorite, because the music feels like it\u2019s night. For me that means staying up late until I hear nothing anymore. I feel like it\u2019s just me in this world. No stress, no people wanting things from me, maybe one friend I have a conversation with at that time, but only if I feel like it, and the nice smell of the night air outside. The lyrics are a complete contrast to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next song is \u201cYou Stupid Bitch\u201d. A song that states how frustration feels when someone doesn\u2019t listen to you, but you love them and you want them to love you back the same way you love them but they seem blind to your love. That was a long sentence with a lot of but\u2019s, which is exactly the way this song feels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this we have \u201cRue\u201d, and this connects with so many things I have seen people go through in the LGBTQ+ community. It\u2019s sad to say that many people within the community have mental issues. Often their partners try to help them, but this is hard on them as well. It hurts all sides. In this song Girl in Red sings about how this can break relationships and how this can cause regret in how much you can be asking for someone. Also something that doesn\u2019t get talked about enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This song is followed by \u201cApartment 402\u201d. This is about fears and frankly sensory issues. The connection between neurodiversity and the LGBTQ+ community is a whole different aspect and while it\u2019s very interesting, I don\u2019t want to dive too deep into that. A little before this album came out, Girl in Red revealed she has OCD. This song touches that with what seems to be pure thoughts that connect with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ninth song is \u201c.\u201d. The song is again about an ended relationship. The partner is already in the next relationship, which again causes jealousy. The title doesn\u2019t just suggest the ending that the lyrics talk about, but also the feelings that just seem statements in this song: things that cannot be changed. The song is a short check-in, but not the easy and common \u2018how are you doing? I\u2019m fine thanks\u2019, but with an honest reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last song is called \u201cI\u2019ll call you mine\u201d, a song about things that weren\u2019t covered previously in this album. It\u2019s a happy note, about hopes for the future. The things that are happening seem to be happy for once and Girl in Red pretty much sings that she wants to keep that going. It\u2019s also filled with anxieties and insecurities, an important thing to talk about and also a relevant feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last number in this album is \u201cit would feel like this\u201d. This isn\u2019t a song, because there are no lyrics. It\u2019s just some instruments playing. Not even something I would call a melody, just a moment of rest in the album, which is an answer to the title of this album. \u201cif i could make it go quiet\u201d is the title, and with \u201cit\u201d Girl in Red means her ongoing mind and racing thoughts. Well this piece in the album is how that would feel like, while the title of the piece implicates that that never happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This album doesn\u2019t really have a story, but all of the songs are about things that people don\u2019t talk about a lot, so it does have a theme. Things that also are important to talk about, just to let people know that they\u2019re not alone in their own minds, that some people do feel similar feelings. Girl in Red took a chance to sing about feelings that people don\u2019t talk enough about  and pull these things out of the shadows. Frankly it\u2019s working very well. The songs are nice to listen to: not too heavy and yet so important. I would certainly recommend taking some time to listen to this masterpiece.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This would\u2019ve been the month that Girl in Red would come to the Netherlands to give a concert in TivoliVredenburg, in honor of her album if i could make it go quiet. The concert is postponed till May, but we can still listen to the album that came out last April. It\u2019s an album that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"slim_seo":{"title":"Review: if i could make it go quiet- Girl in Red - Studievereniging Hucbald","description":"This would\u2019ve been the month that Girl in Red would come to the Netherlands to give a concert in TivoliVredenburg, in honor of her album if i could make it go q"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-publications","category-recensies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hucbald.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}