not only is this my favorite love song (and one of my favorite songs to ever exist), but i feel like it depicts how love tends to find me/how i find it, see it, feel it, etc. the song is about literally meeting your soulmate in the parking lot of a grocery store. it envisions the future of the couple, and then returns to their initial meeting. firstly, i’m sort of a sucker for coincidental meetings - partially because i’ve met some of my very best friends this way. also, i am so quick to romanticize a person after meeting them for the first time (much like fjm imagining buying a mansion and having 7 daughters with this woman). in the song, this love seems all consuming, and i can relate to that as well (“if this isn’t true love, someone oughta put me in a home“). i’m a very sentimental and mushy person, and i tend to hold the people that i met completely by chance even closer. i don’t love people in rational amounts; life is too short for that. anyways, i just really love this song, and i think it is probably one of the most pure love songs of the 21st century.
Oct 4, 2024
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maybe the most perfect corny love song ever written. if you tell me that guitar solo doesn’t do something to you when you hear it you’re lying. straight from the heart and so saccharine it could kill you. be careful, excessive listening to Red Rose Speedway may cause the following side effects: pining, grooving, daydreaming, and toe-tapping.
Sep 24, 2024
I love this song so much, the lyrics go so many different places and cover old songs for like 10 seconds each before moving to another. Fun stuff.
Oct 4, 2024
this has quickly become my favourite love song ever. so simple, tender and beautiful. i wouldn’t know what to do if someone wrote this about me
Nov 1, 2024
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this world is too cold and life is too short to not make sure that the people around you know you love them, that they matter to you. stop this mindset of needing to be nonchalant!!!! if someone leaves you after you tell them you love them, well, they weren’t mean to stick around anyways. tell your friends, your family, your lovers that they are what makes life worth living! that they are sunshine personified to your heart and soul!! the real ones will stay, and they’ll tell you the same. too many people don’t realize how loved they are. 2025 is the year of telling people you love them. flat out.
Feb 2, 2025
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i’m definitely not the first person here to make a rec about this, but my tired brain is truly rejoicing. i have a very hard time completely leaving it since i communicate and share creative work through the app, but i think i’ve decided i will only be on it once a week or when i need/want to post. that’s all. as an already anxious person, seeing the same anxiety-inducing general information (as in something i could easily find on google or a news app) be reposted by 20+ people on their stories has become HELL, especially these last few weeks. not only that, but the constant push of personal opinions about such matters (even if i agree with them) just seems to warp your perception of people. maybe i’m just a wimp, but i don’t think humans were meant to see each other in such a way; we’re not so flashy and impulsive face to face. add the endless scrolling onto that, and it’s downright exhausting and kills productivity. there is so much more dimension and depth to humans and life than what is said or done or seen through this screen. can we please go back to flip phones?
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