“ An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality. “A deeply heartfelt romance novel.” - Marie Claire “It makes me forget to worry, for a moment.A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’ s Bazaar, Thrillist, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Marie Claire, Parade, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Guardian, Financial Times, PopSugar, Book Riot, LitHub, Bookish, LGBTQ Reads, and more! Hunger has helped me through tough times. I let the lyrics speak to me, the rhythm, the tempo, instrumentation, everything. Every time I hear this song, I fall into it. Hunger makes me appreciate how strong and beautiful Florence’s voice is. Hunger makes me want to dance around like Florence does in the video (in the privacy of my company obviously) and cry away my problems - a kind of purge to my soul. Searching for love in validation and in strangers too. Drugs - “but the more I took, the more it took away and I could never get enough.” - on the stage, with strangers. She sings about looking for love, but searching in all the wrong places. I ask myself: "What about me and all my vibrant youth?" "How could anything bad ever happen to me?" and I tell myself "I make a fool of death with my beauty."
“ You make a fool of death with your beauty…"
“What about you and all your vibrant youth? How could anything bad ever happen to you?” The tears fall and I mouth the words along with her. “We all have a hunger,” she says over and over and over again, making me acknowledge the existence of my hunger not to feel this loneliness that I feel. Her courage to share that with the world. The strength of her voice and the weight of her confession baffles me. “At seventeen I started to starve myself,” she says. It’s a “dance and laugh at your problems while the tears stream down your face” kind of song. I love the ability of this song to bring me out of the dark so fast but allow me to acknowledge and feel my sadness at the same time.
Do I even have headphones on?įlorence Welch starts to sing and just a snippet of her voice and the beat emerging from the silence turns on the switch to the light in my mind. I’m too out of tune with reality to know if the music’s coming from my mind or my headphones. “ Hunger” by Florence+ The Machine starts to play. The pain seems to be at its peak, but the tears refuse to fall. "High as Hope" Album Art Cover from https ://Walking down the street with the streetlights and the moon as my source of light, I turn to see that I’m alone.
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