Push Pull | Purity Ring

There’s something so lovely and upbeat but bittersweet about this track.

The bittersweet element is clear. But it’s the lovely and upbeat part that I don’t get. I don’t get how having someone not let go of you, no matter how much you struggle could be lovely. I don’t understand how pushing or pulling against someone getting in only to have them triumph, would make someone feel upbeat.

For the person getting in, yeah. I could see them dance in celebration. But the one they inhabit, doesn’t want to dance.

But maybe they should. Maybe they just need to accept that no matter how much they fight against it, they are going to meet people who are going to get under their skin…and  maybe stay there. Maybe they need to accept that they will encounter people who will eventually become lodged into who they are. That a complete stranger could one day become so imbedded in who you are that you can’t even remember what you felt like without them.

It’s weird as fuck. But it happens. And it can be lovely and upbeat.

So much so that it might make you want to dance.