BEST DAY EVER 😭
it's different from every other h's songs. i'm not good with genres, but i would explain h's other songs as heavy band-music type. like u can hear the guitar and the drums. but with aperture, it's full beats, and synthe, and like pop-indie beats, i don't know how to explain it—but it's really good. welcome back harry 😭
at first glance, with how upbeat the song is, it's a happy song. but i think it's not. aperture means an opening hole or a gap, and in a part, h says "its best you know what you dont. aperture lets the light in" its like he's afraid on letting someone in because the baggages he carries alone, but now that person knows, he's kind of glad because he finally feels like some sense of hope or light shines down on him.
and he said in the chorus "it finally appears it's only love" i like to think he said it out of relief, like oh the wait's finally over and apparently, it's love! it's not what he's been afraid for this whole time, and he's so so grateful for that.
my favorite part is the bridge where he repeats "i wont stray from it, i dont know these spaces. time wont wait on me, i wanna know what's safe is." this is like the part where he realizes that he needs to step forward. let the baggages go or faces his fears, so he can step forward.
theres also a comment saying that aperture's mv doesnt make any sense, but for me it makes perfect sense!
the lobby in first take is dark, no receptionist and a stranger is following him. i think its some sort of a ghost, like taylor's ghost in anti-hero's mv. its his anxiety following him, and he keeps glancing behind, leaving the anxiety behind, until it appears in front of him so harry wont escape.
so first natural instinct is to run, so he runs away from his anxiety, but he cant (he falls down the spiraling staircase). i think thats symbolic too because when hes fighting with the anxiety, hes "spiraling". like in a daze, between death and alive.
but after he drinks some sort of an energy drink, he fights the anxiety in a harry styles unique way—instead of fighting it, i like to think he befriends them. he makes peace with it, he works his way and his world around his anxiety. hes not fighting back, hes trying to fix it. and when it does, he becomes calmer (u can see it in his face when he walks back to the receptionist). the world is lighter again and so is he.
i love it.
