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So Portishead's albums have a progression where each one is more explicit than the last that it's music about depression, right?

4/9/2015, 10:43:39 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

And their way of dealing is: "Don't fight it". "It" being the world. It's not about feeling better. Just living even though u feel this way

4/9/2015, 10:43:59 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

In other words the advice I'm getting from a woman twenty years my senior— who lasted that long—

4/9/2015, 10:44:28 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

is that depression is going to make everything feel awful, make me want to dig in my heels, shut down, reject the world. But I can't.

4/9/2015, 10:44:38 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

I have to accept the world as it is, she tells me.

4/9/2015, 10:44:52 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

...That sounds awful

4/9/2015, 10:45:03 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

And it's TERRIFYING
Because
The other way it's different? It's not a song about having depression. It's about DEALING with depression.

4/9/2015, 10:43:53 PM 🔗

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@mcclure111

Deep Water is the one song where they just don't disguise it at all, don't make it a metaphor or mood, they just talk about it

4/9/2015, 10:43:47 PM 🔗

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