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Literally the song: I'm starving myself to be skinny and I'm a man Commenters: Interpretation!!! Like yes, you can have your own interpretation. But it literally says he's starving himself to look skinny there's a difference between interpretation and right out ignoring the lyrics.
Thanks, it's hard seeing all the comments about how it's a man so he can't or shouldn't have ana when I'm listening to this wondering if I should eat dinner tonight
@@keirakirkbride2999 a lot of people have though, I’ve seen it countless of times, and even when people aren’t saying they can’t have it they still dismiss them
valeriez I’m certain I read somewhere that the person who wrote the song said it wasn’t. I don’t know this band well enough to remember who it was but I definitely read that it wasn’t.
Me hp Anyone can have anorexia. Male, female, rich, poor, anyone. But people only really care when girls have it, because guys are meant to just suck it up. I’m a male and I myself have anorexia. So that’s why it makes me so pissed when people erase the fact that men can have it as well
@@LaurenceUnderground83 wow. I never thought the "suck it up guys" thing could carry over on something like this. That's so ridiculous, guys aren't perfect either. I hope you're doing well right now though :)
"I'm gonna looks so skinny, she'll wanna feel my bones against her skin" ??? I get what people are saying but you have to understand that (1) this can be a part of changing yourself for others and (2) anorexia makes you think that when you are skinny lITERALLY EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE WILL BE BETTER because thats how it keeps you stuck in the illness :/
i agree oh ana and this song made me relate bc i used to have anorexia but yes i do agree that their songs can mean whatever u want them to mean to you.
@@wickedburnout6876 "I go through the bone" (like when you push hard physically on something with effort and wear your flesh to the bone) and "I will eat my small children" are expressions of how intense the pushing through the hunger is and how intense the hunger is, respectively, so I think it does mean children as that's what works best in that context. It's a figure of speech about being ravenous, like "I could eat a horse".
great song. so hard to listen to though, super triggering. I hope one day I can be better enough to properly enjoy it. but it's great to hear another guy talking about disordered eating though.
I got a date on Friday. Not gonna eat anything 'til then. I'm gonna look so skinny. She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin. And I rehearse my greeting. I say hello without too much intent. She gonna think I'm dreamy, She'll wanna show me off to all her friends. Yeah you know she would! (Yeah you know she would) Yeah you know she would. I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I fake. When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth. When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth. I didn't write no book on love I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top. Yeah, yeah In my design I will be funny In my design she'll have a laugh that can't pretend. In my design I will have money. I'll grab the tab and I will tip sixty percent. I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man so I must be insane. When I go hungry, I go through the bone When I go hungry, I go hungry, I will eat my little ones I thought I wrote the book on fun Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one Yeah, yeah I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I fake. When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth. When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth. I didn't write no book on love I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
i dont understand why everyones fighting abt the interpretation lmao like. changing yourself for others and anorexia can literally go hand in hand it doesn't even have to be "up to interpretation" it can just be both
Lyrics Ah, la, la, la, la, la, ah I got a date on friday Not gonna eat anything 'till then I'm gonna' look so skinny She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin And I rehearse my pretense I say hello without too much intent She gonna' think I'm dreamy She'll wanna show me off to all her friends Yeah you know she would (Yeah you know she would) Yeah you know she would I'm manefesting love and fate I am man and I confess I'm fake When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry For the truth I didn't write no book on love I picked the dust and put it down It didn't get me off at all Yeah, ah... Yeah, ahh... In my design I will be funny In my design she will have a laugh that can't pretend In my design I will have money I'll grab the tab and I'll tip sixty percent I'm manefesting love and fate I am a man so I must be insane When I go hungry I go through the bowl When I go hungry, I go hungry I will eat my little ones I thought I wrote the book on fun Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one Yeah, ahh, ahh, ahh Yeah, ahh I'm manefesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I'm fake When I go hungry I go nail and tooth When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry For the truth I didn't write no book on love I picked a dove and put it down It didn't get me off the top
Emily Skye Well, they have a couple of songs that deal with anorexia (O Ana, Body of Years), but I think hunger is used here as an example of how people don't really understand love and dating. I'll just be fake and starve myself so I'm super skinny and she likes me. He hungers for truth, but finds only the superficial. The first stanza is a hilarious critique of our dating culture: be bony and aloof and she'll think you're the tits! He isn't actually saying this is a good plan: "I thought I wrote the book on fun until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one."
Victor Yau I'm really curious about that now and I looked up but found nothing regarding that subject but all that I found was thing talking about his drug usage so hmmmmmm
Since this song doesn’t really specify what Friday it is... like, next Friday, the month after on a Friday??? When will that Friday come? What if it’s already Friday and he’s getting himself ready for next year’s Friday???
@@carmen7387 i’m so sorry! i hope you’re doing better, or that you can get better if this is a current event. just know that there’s always going to be something better waiting for you because if this is your lowest low, there’s only up.
I see a bunch of comments complaining about people arguing this is about anorexia or outright saying men can't have anorexia, but i haven't actually seen any comments saing either of those things. Does anyone actually think guys can't have anorexia? It just seems super obvious to me, of course anyone can struggle with that.
I listen to these guys on Spotify, but sometimes, (because who wants to pay for premium?) I look on here to listen to their individual songs. I love this album, although The Sticks was my favorite of their albums, VGBT, I think, might take that spot, mostly because of this song. Man I love this band. I never get tired of listening to them. They're symphonic and artistic, but also catchy and rhythmic and I just...words can't describe the good feels sometimes, y'know? Great band. I'd recommend them to anyone. It was a great segue into the indie music scene, and I wouldn't change a thing.
Everyone down there arguing if this song is about anorexia, forgetting that art is up for interpretation. Even if Ryan hasn't written this song (or oh Ana) about anorexia, for someone it can be about anorexia and for some other person the 'anorectic parts' can be just metaphores for something else. Mother Mother have really wild land twisted yrics in almost every song and y'all acting like it's something new
Yeah, for example, I feel like this song has to do with trans men, that don't necessarily have anorexia, for one, the "I am a man, so I must be insane" line kind of feels like a trans guy repeatedly hearing that "ALL MEN ARE TRASH AND WE SHOULD KILL THEM" idea that a lot of wlw have, also the fact that a lot of trans men(such as myself) tend to not eat as much from a place of fear that extra fat will go to the chest and hips
@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma ooooo yeah i really like that!!! also the rehearsing greeting can be about practicing his voice to be lower, and "i'll grab the tab and i will tip 60%" a way to kinda show off his masculinity, since ""traditionally"" men are supposed to pay for the dinner and if he tips a lot, then he's a manly man who has money
Not to be late to the party but this can be about someone with an eating disorder/disordered eating patterns *and* changing yourself for someone. It’s almost like interpretation is part of the art experience-
Because nobody posted the lyrics. Also extreme ⚠️TW!!⚠️ Ah, la, la, la, la, la, ah I got a date on friday Not gonna eat anything 'till then I'm gonna' look so skinny She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin And I rehearse my pretense I say hello without too much intent She gonna' think I'm dreamy She'll wanna show me off to all her friends Yeah you know she would (Yeah you know she would) Yeah you know she would I'm manefesting love and fate I am man and I confess I'm fake When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry For the truth I didn't write no book on love I picked the dust and put it down It didn't get me off at all Yeah, ah... Yeah, ahh... In my design I will be funny In my design she will have a laugh that can't pretend In my design I will have money I'll grab the tab and I'll tip sixty percent I'm manefesting love and fate I am a man so I must be insane When I go hungry I go through the bowl When I go hungry, I go hungry I will eat my little ones I thought I wrote the book on fun Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one Yeah, ahh, ahh, ahh Yeah, ahh I'm manefesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I'm fake When I go hungry I go nail and tooth When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry For the truth I didn't write no book on love I picked a dove and put it down It didn't get me off the top
Idk if someone is gonna see this, but dear, you *deserve* to eat today, your eating disorder is valid, but you deserve to recovery too, starving is not a solution, so please ✨eat✨.
I don’t think this song is entirely about having an eating disorder, I think it’s about someone changing themselves in a person they think their crush would love
I think its interesting, the lyrics. On the surface it appears to be about anorexia. When you look at the actual lyrics its talking about making yourself look better by "acting like the ideal partner" to make someone else want to be with you even if its totall bullcrap
I’ve always loved Ana’s song by silverchair, I did not know this band or this song. This makes me realize how men and women feel exactly the same about EDs. We’re all the same.
I got a date on Friday. Not gonna eat anything 'til then. I'm gonna look so skinny. She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin. And I rehearse my greeting. I say hello without too much intent. She gonna think I'm dreamy, She'll wanna show me off to all her friends. Yeah you know she would! (Yeah you know she would) Yeah you know she would. I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I fake. When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth. When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth. I didn't write no book on love I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top. Yeah, yeah In my design I will be funny In my design she'll have a laugh that can't pretend. In my design I will have money. I'll grab the tab and I will tip sixty percent. I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man so I must be insane. When I go hungry, I go through the bone When I go hungry, I go hungry, I will eat my little ones I thought I wrote the book on fun Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one Yeah, yeah I'm manifesting love and fate I am a man and I confess I fake. When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth. When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth. I didn't write no book on love I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
when I heard this song for the first time I cried. bc like from the first line I did the exact same thing. and ik I'm not a man (not a woman either, my pronouns are they/them and I ask that if you reply to this comment you respect that). but I literally had a first date with this girl from across the hall at college and I literally didn't eat for days beforehand (because we were going out to a restaurant that night). and like we would do casual hangouts and my stomach would growl a little and she'd ask if I wanted food and I so desperately wanted to say yes but I couldn't because I needed to look skinny for her. I hate my brain, I never had any problems with eating until college (bc I always had to eat at home but I had the option not to show up to a meal at college and nobody would notice).
anorexia almost killed me at 84 pounds. when i began recovery i ended up with dealing with hypophosphatemia, which is the hallmark of refeeding syndrome. now almost completely recovered im doing great at 130 pounds :D
Congrats friend :) , but i'm really worried about the refeeding syndrome part, it's 2022 all sanitary members should know how to avoid this issue since it's pretty dangerous and can be avoided by good praxis, sorry you had to go through it, my best wishes
Ryan to CBC in 2014: "I've gotten into the habit recently of trying to remember what the song is about as I'm playing it. It helps somehow. We kind of forget what the sentiment is about. I think that applies well to I Go Hungry because I really relate to its story." Also 2014, from an article: “I like talking about the dark and dirty of the human condition - I Go Hungry isn’t specifically about male eating disorders, it’s more about just the foolhardy nature of people,” Guldemond says. Given that Ryan has stated since then that he has a long-standing disorder of cyclically under-eating and binge eating, I glean from all this that the song is REFERENCING an eating disorder, however it is ABOUT the broader and more common psychological context in which eating disorders can exist. It's mentioning ED behaviours as an example of the many different unhealthy ways that social anxiety, loneliness and status anxiety can manifest. Same as if your way of dealing with insecurity was alcohol abuse, then when writing an insecurity song you would likely mention the phenomenon of drinking for confidence. I think the people who argue that the food restriction lines are just metaphorical, because the song is about something else, are missing the fact that EATING DISORDERS are almost always about something else. Meaning, they are developed as a distraction from something, or from all unpleasant experiences in life, and turn compulsive over time. So any song exploring eating disorders, by someone with lived experience, should be EXPECTED to mention deeper issues than just food and body image. Instead people are seeing the mention of non-body image concerns as evidence that the ED lines are metaphorical. That suggests that you don't understand that EDs are complex, and that you can't separate a person's obsession with weight control from whatever deeper problems the obsession distracts them from.
Mother Mother has always been in my to favorite bands, every song I listen to gets better and better every time, unfortunately most of the people in my life don’t like this genre of music 🎶
My favorite thing about this comment section is people arguing about whether not this is about anorexia rather than enjoying the song and interpreting with judgement.
Hi mother mother im Sarah , im french and im only 12 so excuse me for my bad english i hope you can understand anyway . I have been listening to all the sounds for a long time and I must tell you that I really love it. I very much hope that you will one day be able to spend in concert in France!if you could, could you leave me a comment here to warn me? that would be great..I don't know you (which is a shame) before my friend recommends that I listen to you and she was right, I love it! So I thank her for making me discover your group and I thank you very much for composing your sounds that I adore without exception! i don't know which of your music is my favorite..j like ghosting a lot and many others..thank you a lot just for having read .thanks . Byye
If I'm right they are from Canada. They speak French there so I guess if you want you cloud write your comment in French if you don't feel so confident in your English. Have a nice day
hi guys,so im a 10 yr old girl and this song kind of triggers me. I obsess a lot on what i eat because im fat and that's not good :( whenever i eat i feel so disgusted with myself.is this normal? i hate this,i might aswell starve myself so im not disgusted with myself. I mean,im a child,so i must be insane.
I thought this song was about him growing up poor and not having enough food, I didn't think about connecting it to anorexia until I listened to it a few 100 times
Even as an almost fully recovered anorexic this song is still pretty triggering. For anyone feeling triggered by the lyrics please listen to some more positive songs that you know to clear your mind of the negativity. You are completely wonderful and perfect. You don’t need to change anything about you. Body’s are so diverse and beautiful as such. Please don’t feel the need to beat yourself down, you are worth so much more than you can comprehend. Love you. 💖
Thanks a lot for this. This was my favourite song during my anorexia, I used to walk and listen to it and feel alive, despite being physically in an awful condition. Now that I'm in recovery it's hard to listen to it, but as I'm getting better, I hope I can start listening to it again. I'm not letting that prick of an eating disorder take away my music
Not a male anorexic, but female here. This song was like my anthem and I actually used it to trigger myself while I was dating this stupid boy. There were many dates that were on Friday I would starve myself for but he cancelled them all the time.
Your body is designed to keep you at a minimum weight that is actually healthy for you. Which is much higher than bullshit beauty standards that got conflated with allegations of being healthier. Diets and/or skipping meals make it worse because your body think you're about to starve and will change your metabolism to prevent that. Your body deserves credit for taking good care of you. It deserves to be loved. And when you do, others will love it, too. I know it's hard to love yourself after everything you've internalized, but hang in there!
hey! i love them too and can see why it could trigger you so if you want maybe i can suggest another songs by them that don't deal with this topic in particular
People thought Oh Ana wasnt about anorexia when it’s a self destructing song that mentions cutting and suicide, now people are debating on this not being about anorexia. Going hungry is an eating disorder, and it isn’t bulimia. It mentions feeling his bones through his skin and how he intentionally isn’t eating. Like I am right now, six years anorexic and my stomach is growling. When it’s a choice it’s anorexia. One of my closest friend had a food phobia and was emaciated, that wasn’t anorexia.
"When it's a choice it's anorexia." Um excuse me? What? If you think anorexia is a fucking choice you need to get it together. If anorexia was a choice, it wouldn't fucking exist. Nobody should WANT an eating disorder. You can't choose a mental illness. We are talking about life-ruining and deadly illnesses here. The fact that you think anorexia (or any other eating disorder) is a choice is disgusting.
@@riley22105 having anarexia id much more of a choice than literally being physically ill when eating certsin foods. While both disorders might align together they are different. I have anorexia and I am choosing to starve today, tomorrow, and likely the next.
Not really related to the song but why's this album not available on Spotify? It has a couple of good songs but for some reason they didn't include it :(
Literally the song: I'm starving myself to be skinny and I'm a man
Commenters: Interpretation!!!
Like yes, you can have your own interpretation. But it literally says he's starving himself to look skinny there's a difference between interpretation and right out ignoring the lyrics.
Exactly, thank you.
me but the date on friday is my doctor who wants to weigh me ...
Good luck for your recovery! You can do it❤
I hope your doing better, I wish you the best and hope you recover 🤍
Lmao same💅💅💅
Hey guys. Dudes are allowed to have anorexia as well. And if you’re struggling, I’m sorry, hopefully things are gonna get better for you.
Thanks, it's hard seeing all the comments about how it's a man so he can't or shouldn't have ana when I'm listening to this wondering if I should eat dinner tonight
Literally no one is saying that they cant
wtf which people are saying they arent allowed to have it?? i dont see any but i wanna throw a bag of rocks at them
@@keirakirkbride2999 it’s a very common bias that only girls suffer from ED’s and men with them are commonly dismissed
@@keirakirkbride2999 a lot of people have though, I’ve seen it countless of times, and even when people aren’t saying they can’t have it they still dismiss them
this song is basically "if you were suspicious about oh ana being about anorexia, well give this a listen"
Oh Ana isn’t about anorexia though, I read somewhere that it was just crazy lyrics idk
@@DeathbyProxy i'm pretty sure it is about anorexia not only is the title related the lyrics talk about the struggle and addiction
valeriez I’m certain I read somewhere that the person who wrote the song said it wasn’t. I don’t know this band well enough to remember who it was but I definitely read that it wasn’t.
"I go hungry for the truth"... so there's also that interpretation ;-)
[which is a sign of good art]
valeriez I’m pretty sure they said it wasn’t
Please stop saying this song isn’t about anorexia. Guys deserve to have songs to relate to as well, it’s not just women
thank u !!
Just Vibin peridot
I've never really thought about guys having anorexia, it's kinda interesting to hear about anorexia from a new perspective
Me hp
Anyone can have anorexia. Male, female, rich, poor, anyone. But people only really care when girls have it, because guys are meant to just suck it up. I’m a male and I myself have anorexia. So that’s why it makes me so pissed when people erase the fact that men can have it as well
@@LaurenceUnderground83 wow. I never thought the "suck it up guys" thing could carry over on something like this. That's so ridiculous, guys aren't perfect either. I hope you're doing well right now though :)
ya'll: its up for interpretation!! its not actually about anorexia!!
the song: "i've got a date on friday
not gonna eat anything till then"
like???
"I'm gonna looks so skinny, she'll wanna feel my bones against her skin" ???
I get what people are saying but you have to understand that (1) this can be a part of changing yourself for others and (2) anorexia makes you think that when you are skinny lITERALLY EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE WILL BE BETTER because thats how it keeps you stuck in the illness :/
I think people say that so people stop arguing even though, I feel like this song is just so obvious with it's meaning or topic.
i agree oh ana and this song made me relate bc i used to have anorexia but yes i do agree that their songs can mean whatever u want them to mean to you.
Fr tho like, chile wtf did you think it was about? Did you listen to the lyrics?
@@yoyoyoyo-lq4jb i mean it is different for everyone, it's not always the same.
ha ha ha
I do thaaut
i mean same but noo
Love the vine reference
I think that's why most of us are listening to this song lol
so true
Me: Damn this song like actually makes me go into a really bad mind set-
Also me: (Listens to the song on repeat)
I feel called out
It really slaps but can be triggering.
*when I go hungry i will eat my little ones"
*MMMMM CHILDREN*
Can't you like be unable to have kids when you have an ed, maybe that's why it says that
i'm pretty sure that means small or light meals since he's not eating until friday, but children is way funnier lol
@@koilov7285 hmmm children, tastes good
@@koilov7285 That's if it gets really severe, so it is true, but I'm pretty sure it's just the extra bit of Mother Mother y'know?
@@wickedburnout6876 "I go through the bone" (like when you push hard physically on something with effort and wear your flesh to the bone) and "I will eat my small children" are expressions of how intense the pushing through the hunger is and how intense the hunger is, respectively, so I think it does mean children as that's what works best in that context. It's a figure of speech about being ravenous, like "I could eat a horse".
great song. so hard to listen to though, super triggering. I hope one day I can be better enough to properly enjoy it. but it's great to hear another guy talking about disordered eating though.
I respect that dude, keep up the good work I'm proud bro
RowanLikesRadiohead pretty sure its a full blown eating disorder rather than just disordered eating but yeah isn’t it just!!
RowanLikesRadiohead you living each day is amazing, keep being you because that is more beautiful than any rose
@@Penguinstudios123 i think they put eating disorder and changing my self bc of crush in on one song
Daisy Oswald what?
I got a date on Friday.
Not gonna eat anything 'til then.
I'm gonna look so skinny.
She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin.
And I rehearse my greeting.
I say hello without too much intent.
She gonna think I'm dreamy,
She'll wanna show me off to all her friends.
Yeah you know she would!
(Yeah you know she would)
Yeah you know she would.
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I fake.
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth.
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth.
I didn't write no book on love
I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
Yeah, yeah
In my design I will be funny
In my design she'll have a laugh that can't pretend.
In my design I will have money.
I'll grab the tab and I will tip sixty percent.
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man so I must be insane.
When I go hungry, I go through the bone
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I will eat my little ones
I thought I wrote the book on fun
Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one
Yeah, yeah
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I fake.
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth.
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth.
I didn't write no book on love
I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
Now there's 321
Thank you so much for the lyrics ❤
The closer it is to Friday when you listen to this, the sooner he can eat
It's Monday. Poor Ryan is gonna be hungry
@@effie1349 Ryan is gonna be a full boy tomorrow tho B)
Bruh this is wholesome 😍😫
Jesus christ its monday
i feel bad for listening to this on a sunday
this really is the anthem for boys with anorexia huh?
i dont understand why everyones fighting abt the interpretation lmao like. changing yourself for others and anorexia can literally go hand in hand it doesn't even have to be "up to interpretation" it can just be both
like why are yall so scared of relating to ppl with mental illness
This song slaps, but why don't you take a break from this song? Listen to some positive songs for a while.
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but great profile picture, fellow unus
Thank you! And momento mori :)
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Shout out to my trans homies
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Lyrics
Ah, la, la, la, la, la, ah
I got a date on friday
Not gonna eat anything 'till then
I'm gonna' look so skinny
She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin
And I rehearse my pretense
I say hello without too much intent
She gonna' think I'm dreamy
She'll wanna show me off to all her friends
Yeah you know she would
(Yeah you know she would)
Yeah you know she would
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am man and I confess I'm fake
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry
For the truth
I didn't write no book on love
I picked the dust and put it down
It didn't get me off at all
Yeah, ah...
Yeah, ahh...
In my design I will be funny
In my design she will have a laugh that can't pretend
In my design I will have money
I'll grab the tab and I'll tip sixty percent
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am a man so I must be insane
When I go hungry I go through the bowl
When I go hungry, I go hungry
I will eat my little ones
I thought I wrote the book on fun
Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one
Yeah, ahh, ahh, ahh
Yeah, ahh
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I'm fake
When I go hungry I go nail and tooth
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry
For the truth
I didn't write no book on love
I picked a dove and put it down
It didn't get me off the top
Thank
This sounds like a song about a man with anorexia.
Emily Skye Well, they have a couple of songs that deal with anorexia (O Ana, Body of Years), but I think hunger is used here as an example of how people don't really understand love and dating. I'll just be fake and starve myself so I'm super skinny and she likes me. He hungers for truth, but finds only the superficial. The first stanza is a hilarious critique of our dating culture: be bony and aloof and she'll think you're the tits! He isn't actually saying this is a good plan: "I thought I wrote the book on fun until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one."
BlondeBetsey This is a great explanation. Thank you. Is easily my favorite song right now.
See the song love and truth they produced earlier. This band revisits the concept of that song here.
I can't find the article but I remember reading Ryan had at one point struggled with anorexia and this song was a bit about it.
Victor Yau I'm really curious about that now and I looked up but found nothing regarding that subject but all that I found was thing talking about his drug usage so hmmmmmm
Since this song doesn’t really specify what Friday it is... like, next Friday, the month after on a Friday??? When will that Friday come? What if it’s already Friday and he’s getting himself ready for next year’s Friday???
What if it’s Friday the 13th?
That's an interesting take, I didn't think about that
I didn't think about it like that- but that could totally be true!
I feel bad for the people who said that this was triggering-
Last year my friend showed me this and said “I have a song that will make you cry”........
I'm sweating and shaking by earing this song. Anorexia ruined my life and my perception of so much things 💔
@@carmen7387 i’m so sorry! i hope you’re doing better, or that you can get better if this is a current event. just know that there’s always going to be something better waiting for you because if this is your lowest low, there’s only up.
I see a bunch of comments complaining about people arguing this is about anorexia or outright saying men can't have anorexia, but i haven't actually seen any comments saing either of those things. Does anyone actually think guys can't have anorexia? It just seems super obvious to me, of course anyone can struggle with that.
I remember listening to this to trigger myself
me rn-
I listen to these guys on Spotify, but sometimes, (because who wants to pay for premium?) I look on here to listen to their individual songs.
I love this album, although The Sticks was my favorite of their albums, VGBT, I think, might take that spot, mostly because of this song.
Man I love this band. I never get tired of listening to them. They're symphonic and artistic, but also catchy and rhythmic and I just...words can't describe the good feels sometimes, y'know?
Great band. I'd recommend them to anyone. It was a great segue into the indie music scene, and I wouldn't change a thing.
i think there first two albums were their best. But there other working is also great!
Wᴀʏғᴀʀᴇʀ this album isn’t on Spotify?? Or at least it isn’t in the UK
can't find this album on spotify...i'm so sad
Yeah I'm here because this album isn't on spotify
Wow that hit me like a train
DUCK-3076 sKKSK is that a fucking pun for your pfp
Everyone down there arguing if this song is about anorexia, forgetting that art is up for interpretation. Even if Ryan hasn't written this song (or oh Ana) about anorexia, for someone it can be about anorexia and for some other person the 'anorectic parts' can be just metaphores for something else. Mother Mother have really wild land twisted yrics in almost every song and y'all acting like it's something new
Art is up to interpretation but authorial intent is still a thing. That's what this song was written about :)
thank you like why can't everyone just have their own interpretations, there's no need to argue
Yeah, for example, I feel like this song has to do with trans men, that don't necessarily have anorexia, for one, the "I am a man, so I must be insane" line kind of feels like a trans guy repeatedly hearing that "ALL MEN ARE TRASH AND WE SHOULD KILL THEM" idea that a lot of wlw have, also the fact that a lot of trans men(such as myself) tend to not eat as much from a place of fear that extra fat will go to the chest and hips
@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma ooooo yeah i really like that!!! also the rehearsing greeting can be about practicing his voice to be lower, and "i'll grab the tab and i will tip 60%" a way to kinda show off his masculinity, since ""traditionally"" men are supposed to pay for the dinner and if he tips a lot, then he's a manly man who has money
Ryan literally said this song is about eating disorders
Not to be late to the party but this can be about someone with an eating disorder/disordered eating patterns *and* changing yourself for someone. It’s almost like interpretation is part of the art experience-
this song has a teen film vibe from the 90s, where the protagonist is returning from school on foot with a headset and dancing on the way
Because nobody posted the lyrics. Also extreme ⚠️TW!!⚠️
Ah, la, la, la, la, la, ah
I got a date on friday
Not gonna eat anything 'till then
I'm gonna' look so skinny
She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin
And I rehearse my pretense
I say hello without too much intent
She gonna' think I'm dreamy
She'll wanna show me off to all her friends
Yeah you know she would
(Yeah you know she would)
Yeah you know she would
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am man and I confess I'm fake
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry
For the truth
I didn't write no book on love
I picked the dust and put it down
It didn't get me off at all
Yeah, ah...
Yeah, ahh...
In my design I will be funny
In my design she will have a laugh that can't pretend
In my design I will have money
I'll grab the tab and I'll tip sixty percent
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am a man so I must be insane
When I go hungry I go through the bowl
When I go hungry, I go hungry
I will eat my little ones
I thought I wrote the book on fun
Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one
Yeah, ahh, ahh, ahh
Yeah, ahh
I'm manefesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I'm fake
When I go hungry I go nail and tooth
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry
For the truth
I didn't write no book on love
I picked a dove and put it down
It didn't get me off the top
THANK U
so many of these lyrics r wrong
Thank
Don't know how did I get here, but I'm glad I did.
As a girl with an eating disorder whose consumed most of any ED media that exists im so happy to see male representation, we need more!!
he just like me
hahaha i do that
Idk if someone is gonna see this, but dear, you *deserve* to eat today, your eating disorder is valid, but you deserve to recovery too, starving is not a solution, so please ✨eat✨.
no
wow you absolutely cured my eating disorder now, thank u
Im sorry i cant i just cant i don't know why i just cant ive had alot i swear..maybe
no
Hey, thanks for trying to spread positivity :)
I don’t think this song is entirely about having an eating disorder, I think it’s about someone changing themselves in a person they think their crush would love
the second and third lines are literally "Not gonna eat anything 'til then, I'm gonna look so skinny". I think they call that anorexia bud
Sapphire.Skeletons and by changing themself, they also mean becoming skinny
"In my design...I will..." He's changing for her
@@crisph73 fan of life is strange? me too buddy
Why not both?
I think its interesting, the lyrics. On the surface it appears to be about anorexia. When you look at the actual lyrics its talking about making yourself look better by "acting like the ideal partner" to make someone else want to be with you even if its totall bullcrap
if yall take this meaning away from me i swear to god. Its about anorexia. If you dont like it go somewhere else and listen to another song
This is one of my favourite songs by mother mother
W00T W00T FOR 60% TIPS
HEYO
It's Friday he can eat
I got a goddamn McDonald’s commercial before the song🧍♂️
I know I'm a bit late but that's fucking hilarious
"hungry, you say?"
I’ve always loved Ana’s song by silverchair, I did not know this band or this song. This makes me realize how men and women feel exactly the same about EDs. We’re all the same.
Mother Mother I love you so much please don’t secretly be a wife beater or some shit like that😭
proanas: oMG Oh aNa iS pRo AnoRexiA, HAHA iCE foOD
i'm not hungry: so um... do we tell them i exist?
what does this even mea.
mean*
What
uhm,,
lofi death bit disrespectful but okay
This song makes me feel understood. I hope you're doing alright, Ryan
I got a date on Friday.
Not gonna eat anything 'til then.
I'm gonna look so skinny.
She'll wanna feel my bones against her skin.
And I rehearse my greeting.
I say hello without too much intent.
She gonna think I'm dreamy,
She'll wanna show me off to all her friends.
Yeah you know she would!
(Yeah you know she would)
Yeah you know she would.
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I fake.
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth.
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth.
I didn't write no book on love
I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
Yeah, yeah
In my design I will be funny
In my design she'll have a laugh that can't pretend.
In my design I will have money.
I'll grab the tab and I will tip sixty percent.
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man so I must be insane.
When I go hungry, I go through the bone
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I will eat my little ones
I thought I wrote the book on fun
Until I put it out to find I couldn't sell a single one
Yeah, yeah
I'm manifesting love and fate
I am a man and I confess I fake.
When I go hungry, I go nail and tooth.
When I go hungry, I go hungry, I go hungry for the truth.
I didn't write no book on love
I picked it up then put it down, it didn't get me off the top.
it’s friday, he can eat!
tea is basically soup so it counts as a meal
when I heard this song for the first time I cried. bc like from the first line I did the exact same thing. and ik I'm not a man (not a woman either, my pronouns are they/them and I ask that if you reply to this comment you respect that). but I literally had a first date with this girl from across the hall at college and I literally didn't eat for days beforehand (because we were going out to a restaurant that night). and like we would do casual hangouts and my stomach would growl a little and she'd ask if I wanted food and I so desperately wanted to say yes but I couldn't because I needed to look skinny for her. I hate my brain, I never had any problems with eating until college (bc I always had to eat at home but I had the option not to show up to a meal at college and nobody would notice).
anorexia almost killed me at 84 pounds. when i began recovery i ended up with dealing with hypophosphatemia, which is the hallmark of refeeding syndrome. now almost completely recovered im doing great at 130 pounds :D
congrats!!!
Congrats friend :) , but i'm really worried about the refeeding syndrome part, it's 2022 all sanitary members should know how to avoid this issue since it's pretty dangerous and can be avoided by good praxis, sorry you had to go through it, my best wishes
Ryan to CBC in 2014: "I've gotten into the habit recently of trying to remember what the song is about as I'm playing it. It helps somehow. We kind of forget what the sentiment is about. I think that applies well to I Go Hungry because I really relate to its story."
Also 2014, from an article: “I like talking about the dark and dirty of the human condition - I Go Hungry isn’t specifically about male eating disorders, it’s more about just the foolhardy nature of people,” Guldemond says.
Given that Ryan has stated since then that he has a long-standing disorder of cyclically under-eating and binge eating, I glean from all this that the song is REFERENCING an eating disorder, however it is ABOUT the broader and more common psychological context in which eating disorders can exist. It's mentioning ED behaviours as an example of the many different unhealthy ways that social anxiety, loneliness and status anxiety can manifest. Same as if your way of dealing with insecurity was alcohol abuse, then when writing an insecurity song you would likely mention the phenomenon of drinking for confidence.
I think the people who argue that the food restriction lines are just metaphorical, because the song is about something else, are missing the fact that EATING DISORDERS are almost always about something else. Meaning, they are developed as a distraction from something, or from all unpleasant experiences in life, and turn compulsive over time. So any song exploring eating disorders, by someone with lived experience, should be EXPECTED to mention deeper issues than just food and body image. Instead people are seeing the mention of non-body image concerns as evidence that the ED lines are metaphorical. That suggests that you don't understand that EDs are complex, and that you can't separate a person's obsession with weight control from whatever deeper problems the obsession distracts them from.
Mother Mother has always been in my to favorite bands, every song I listen to gets better and better every time, unfortunately most of the people in my life don’t like this genre of music 🎶
Saaame
ok hipster
Old Andrew ok monky
get off the internet ungly
My parents constantly have to put up with me screaming to Mother Mother in the shower-
My favorite thing about this comment section is people arguing about whether not this is about anorexia rather than enjoying the song and interpreting with judgement.
"In my design I will have money"
I stopped relating at this point.
Not even in fantasies have I escaped poverty
Hi mother mother im Sarah , im french and im only 12 so excuse me for my bad english i hope you can understand anyway . I have been listening to all the sounds for a long time and I must tell you that I really love it.
I very much hope that you will one day be able to spend in concert in France!if you could, could you leave me a comment here to warn me? that would be great..I don't know you (which is a shame) before my friend recommends that I listen to you and she was right, I love it! So I thank her for making me discover your group and I thank you very much for composing your sounds that I adore without exception! i don't know which of your music is my favorite..j like ghosting a lot and many others..thank you a lot just for having read .thanks . Byye
If I'm right they are from Canada. They speak French there so I guess if you want you cloud write your comment in French if you don't feel so confident in your English. Have a nice day
can't believe this was my mindset at one point, happy i'm out of that
Uggggh, some of their songs are blocked in my country!!
get a vpn my dude!
This is my top favorite song right now!
I love Mother Mother so much!!!
Imagine if a cannibal was singing this attempting to be good for their love who finally succumbed to their invite for dinner
This is my all time favorite song, it plays in my head 24/7
hi guys,so im a 10 yr old girl and this song kind of triggers me. I obsess a lot on what i eat because im fat and that's not good :( whenever i eat i feel so disgusted with myself.is this normal? i hate this,i might aswell starve myself so im not disgusted with myself. I mean,im a child,so i must be insane.
Hey... See a therapist if you're concerned, there's a good chance people online would just hurt you more.
@@SCP-ny7tl my parents think im fine mentally,and I don't really think I'm ready for that whole thing.
@@chillcat1454 I understand, just know you're not alone. At least try to eat enough
I was in your age like that too
and now more extrem, but I dont care anymore, I dont want anyone to know, a creature told me thats better 🤩
@@chillcat1454
you should maybe try to do something
if not you could be like me later and you wouldn't want this gurl 💖
I thought this song was about him growing up poor and not having enough food, I didn't think about connecting it to anorexia until I listened to it a few 100 times
Even as an almost fully recovered anorexic this song is still pretty triggering. For anyone feeling triggered by the lyrics please listen to some more positive songs that you know to clear your mind of the negativity.
You are completely wonderful and perfect. You don’t need to change anything about you. Body’s are so diverse and beautiful as such. Please don’t feel the need to beat yourself down, you are worth so much more than you can comprehend. Love you. 💖
this comment really cheered me up,, thank you pal
I’m glad it helped. No problem. 💖
Thanks a lot for this. This was my favourite song during my anorexia, I used to walk and listen to it and feel alive, despite being physically in an awful condition. Now that I'm in recovery it's hard to listen to it, but as I'm getting better, I hope I can start listening to it again. I'm not letting that prick of an eating disorder take away my music
It is an amazing and relatable song but don't listen to it too much if it triggers you.
anyone from mpa listening?
This piece of art is underrated
Not a male anorexic, but female here. This song was like my anthem and I actually used it to trigger myself while I was dating this stupid boy. There were many dates that were on Friday I would starve myself for but he cancelled them all the time.
When I listen to this I like to also say hello, but maybe I’m putting a little too much intent into it when I do
a ha we all know why we are here =D
I can relate so much to this song wtf
fuck it , relapsing
Please be safe bro
i cracked listening to this at 75x speed help me please i can´t stop laughing they sound like these nightcore songs
Why can't I find it on Spotify?? It's my favorite of the album!
Oh...
Oh
That's depressing...
Its a real shame that this isn't on spotify
might be mandela effect here but i swear there was an older version of this song???
Ana :p
cant even vibe without ppl assuming arms tonite and songs like this is about a girl or bout sleeping in bed with another person LOL
I have anorexia this song is so relatable it makes me feel less alone
This has been one of my go-to songs when I’m hungry for the couple years
Your body is designed to keep you at a minimum weight that is actually healthy for you. Which is much higher than bullshit beauty standards that got conflated with allegations of being healthier. Diets and/or skipping meals make it worse because your body think you're about to starve and will change your metabolism to prevent that.
Your body deserves credit for taking good care of you. It deserves to be loved. And when you do, others will love it, too.
I know it's hard to love yourself after everything you've internalized, but hang in there!
idc lol
This is weirdly comforting :(:
i love them but this song gives me serious triggers I don't know what to dooooooo
hey! i love them too and can see why it could trigger you so if you want maybe i can suggest another songs by them that don't deal with this topic in particular
why
Because this song talks about anorexia, and that can be triggering for some people.
People thought Oh Ana wasnt about anorexia when it’s a self destructing song that mentions cutting and suicide, now people are debating on this not being about anorexia. Going hungry is an eating disorder, and it isn’t bulimia. It mentions feeling his bones through his skin and how he intentionally isn’t eating. Like I am right now, six years anorexic and my stomach is growling. When it’s a choice it’s anorexia. One of my closest friend had a food phobia and was emaciated, that wasn’t anorexia.
"When it's a choice it's anorexia." Um excuse me? What? If you think anorexia is a fucking choice you need to get it together. If anorexia was a choice, it wouldn't fucking exist. Nobody should WANT an eating disorder. You can't choose a mental illness. We are talking about life-ruining and deadly illnesses here. The fact that you think anorexia (or any other eating disorder) is a choice is disgusting.
@@riley22105 my man... they just admitted to having anorexia for six years a sentence before. did you pay attention to the comment???
@@riley22105 having anarexia id much more of a choice than literally being physically ill when eating certsin foods. While both disorders might align together they are different. I have anorexia and I am choosing to starve today, tomorrow, and likely the next.
It's Friday and I had a mad binge and I feel very guilty now I'm on fuckin pills
this song is really cathartic but it makes me want to cry a little ahah
I can’t find this on spotify! Does anyone know how I can download this on spotify ?
The beginning gives off tongue tied by grouplove vibes
why have i never heard this one?
This song hits too close to home
HAHASH HUMOR ABOUT MY TRAUMA
Not really related to the song but why's this album not available on Spotify? It has a couple of good songs but for some reason they didn't include it :(
i think they may have taken it down, i remember listening to it on there and it just disappeared one day
you might know this already but to anyone who doesn't: IT'S ON SPOTIFY NOW FOLKS
333
i really do got a date on friday xD
Okay, i love your music
i am so dumb. this song fucking ROCKS!!!
"art is up for interpretation" just say you don't think men can have anorexia
the two genders are this song and hey ana
HEY ANA 😭
@@alictyneLMAO
im gonna die i love this one so much!!
I'm listening to this song on Monday, so he's going to starve for four days.
Just same
Why isn't this on spotify :c