During the summer following my high school graduation, I listened to "Resistor" by Brave Saint Saturn a lot. At the time, I had super low self-esteem and was suffering from depression (unbeknownst to me). So I thought the song was about comforting someone who thought she was worthless. But I listened to the song again last night for the first time in who knows how long--and this time, I thought the song was about a stubborn person with the sub-text that this person was struggling and refusing to ask for help. I think I have become much more rigid and stubborn in what I believe, especially in relation to the church, so this time, the song's character's stubbornness stuck out to me.
The interesting thing is that both motifs are indeed present in the song. I completely missed the stubbornness motif when I was 18, but that was the first thing I picked up on last night. It's odd to see that the context of my life has framed which lines of the song stuck out to me.
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