Wifiskeleton

  

 I am going to publish my other blog about paper airplanes soon, but I wanted to upload this blog on the music artist Wifiskeleton, due to his recent death last week. Wifiskeleton is also known for his old YouTube channel, Cyprus. Wifiskeleton was 21 years old when he died of a suicidal overdose. Wifiskeleton suffered from depression and some other mental illnesses for a while before his passing. 

    His first song Nope your too late i already died, is his most popular song and the title can perfectly describe what is happening with his music now. Wifiskeleton was not the most popular music artist (he did have a staggering seven hundred thousand listeners until about a couple of days after his passing. He now has about two million seven hundred thousand listeners. A part of the reason for his listeners' spiking recently is due to the covers of his songs, like the Peter Griffin "If you see me out in Quohog, say hi" one. So the title is fitting for the situation happening now.

    The song starts with, "I'm not tryin' to ruin your fun." Here the narrator feels like he drags the mood down when he is around, and the next line, "you're just a little bit late I guess you're already done," these lyrics seem to be the responses that the narrator receives when he is around. People say that he is too late, so they end what they were doing to exclude him. Then he says, "There's this feeling I can't shake 'cause I'm too dumb, I'm never doing the right thing, so I'm so stuck." The narrator degrades himself, saying that he is dumb and will never do the right thing. He feels mentally stuck, like nothing in his life will ever change. "If you see me in America, I might say hi, but if you meet me out in Europe, I'm a talkative guy. Maybe we'll talk over scones around lunch some time." These lyrics seem to be what it would be like if he met a fan. His next line reinforces my interpretation: "And I've never met a fan so it might be nice." The next lines, however he says how he hates the paparazzi and how they are always trying to find ways to hurt him, "But I can't take this paparazzi, geez, it's like the camera's always out and always starin' at me, and if I say the wrong thing, they'll cut my tongue 'til it bleeds, always whippin' out their pitchforks when you try to speak." However in the next line he says "But that couldn't be me," even though the paparazzi might be annoying, he could never be popular enough to have paparazzi. He begins the next verse with, "Next day I'm walkin' the road, kickin' rocks, it's my fault, My life's the worst story told, I'll be this way 'til I'm old," his life is terrible and it will never get better. "I rip a page out the book, I'm just so misunderstood, I always think about her and when my life felt good," here he is saying that previously he had a girlfriend, which made him feel good, and kept these negative thoughts away. "I smoked a cig on the porch It doesn't help me at all, I wonder what's it all for?" He is smoking to try and take his mind elsewhere, but it doesn't work. In the line "what's it all for?" I think that this might be him saying what life is for. "Is this the girl I adored" is life meant for giving the girl he adores his time? "and I know I can't afford, Watchin her walk out the door," He won't be able to live on if she leaves him. "So I keep it to myself and keep my feet on the floor." So, he keeps his thoughts inside and doesn't put himself out to people.

    These next two songs are from his most recent album, "Pony."

These next two songs are from his most recent album, "Pony." Bipolar is a song about someone who is emotionally numb, mentally unwell and trying to cope through temporary or fragile means. The song starts with "I talk at night," he feels as if he is restless and alone at night, and uses talking as a way to cope with his emotions and thoughts. "Each butterfly's a moth that can't stand light," A metaphor for lost hope. Butterflies are symbols of beauty and transformation, while moths are often drawn to light destructively. This suggests once beautiful things are now afraid. one of these "things" can be the narrator's relationship. "SSRIs they're what I need, it's a Band-Aid for my mind," SSRIs are an antidepressant, and our narrator needs them to help heal his mind. "But it's alright That's what she'll tell you when she leaves your life," This line describes abandonment masked by fake comfort. "And you’ll just die” isn’t pointing out literal death but an emotional collapse. “But in the end, it’s time

I'm happy, I'm sad
You're so dramatic
So damn mad
I'm enigmatic
When we kiss
I feel the static
Between us
And chemical reaction

This verse contrasts an intense relationship and following emotions. “When we kiss I feel the static Between us And chemical reaction” could symbolize how the relationship feels unstable and maybe toxic, driven by emotional highs and lows.

Birthday

"his anxiety/paranoia was overtaking his life so he imagines it as a noose around his neck and he jumpsI'm scared of what was coming next, I kept my fear around my neck, I jumped," his anxiety/paranoia was overtaking his life so he imagines it as a noose around his neck and he jumps. "but sadly I had slept, once I awoke I was in my bed," A metaphor for suicide, the ‘fear around my neck’ is a noose. He jumps, but wakes up disappointed to still be alive.

"I knew I couldn't do this
Feel like my heart is all stabbed up
I'm way too fucking human
My best just wasn't good enough
I knew I couldn't do this
Feel like my heart is all stabbed up
I'm way too fucking human
My best just wasn't good enough." This part of the song is pretty self-explanatory however, it sounds a lot like one of Wifiskelton's friends, Jayde's song "Cry." This is most likely a nod to that song.