@michellealice1455

3 years ago

Just a theory, because I like discussing art: I feel like the angel in white represents what is seen as ‘pure’ and ‘harmless’; that’s why we can’t see her black wings clearly at first until she zooms out. She looks proud, like she had nothing to be afraid of - she is perceived innocence. The angel with the black wings is actually the one that is hurt, the one that has the right to cry; but the colour ‘black’ presents her to be ‘harmful’, the one that hurts others with her power. She wants to become the powerful woman that she is, the power that she knows she carries inside of her, but Joanna (the angel in white) is holding her down. I feel like this song is a dialogue between these two women; the broken woman who wants her lover’s attention but then realizes this cry for attention comes from a negative place in herself; the angel in black being the powerful archetype who wants to experience freedom and peace through her strength, but Joanna dragging her down. The angel in white represents the energy of the child that cries when she doesn’t get her way just to get attention, the woman that doesn’t leave her husband just so she can stay in a familiar negative state - these actions are perceived as ‘harmless’ but are actually very harmful. The black angel wants to break free from this, but is scared she might hurt the angel in white; ‘Joanna, please stop loving me, I’m too sensitive’; asking the angel in white to let her be released from this energy that was first perceived as something that was pure, soft and sincere; the angel in black now realises is harmful, and she wants release - to really be the powerful woman that she is. The song represents the painful process of having to face; ‘shame invaded truth’; and heal the energy that Joanna represents in the psyche.

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