Sanvi Week 10: We Made It.
I hadn’t originally planned to write on this topic today. But on my drive home, The 1975’s “Love It If We Made It” came on shuffle, and as soon as Matty Healy hit the line—“and I’d love it if we made it”—it clicked to me that, in the past 24 hours, we might actually have turned a corner and started to “make it.”
If you have listened to the track, you know how full of energy it is. Healy spends four minutes shouting in exhaustion about modern life, brutality, political scandals, environmental issues, and the absurdity of the internet. The song captures the overwhelming weight of watching the world go up in flames and declares that “modernity has failed us.”
Although he is British, Healy focuses on America—more specifically Trump—in his final verse. He drops Trump’s crude Access Hollywood quote (“I moved on her like a b*tch!”) followed shortly by his infamous Twitter acknowledgement of Kanye West (“Thank you Kanye, very cool!”), capturing the exact moment American politics turned into a train wreck.
By weaving real-life political scandals, internet memes, and celebrity drama into lyrics, the song captures the feeling of watching public discourse deteriorate into a reality-TV-esque spectacle.
The song was released a couple of months before the 2018 midterms during Trump’s first term. Living through American politics at that time evidently felt like being trapped inside those exact lyrics, and unfortunately still does today. The era where division reached peak toxicity, and every headline felt like an absurd joke more than a democracy.
That’s why the sweep of the midterm elections and the resulting “blue wave” hit with such a great emotional weight. For the first time in a long time, the aggravating noise has quieted down. Watching every vote push back against hate and reclaim control of Congress was both a huge political shift as well as a breath of fresh air. This midterm election introduced historic milestones across the country: Our first Muslim senator, the first Black woman ever elected governor, the first Native American senator and governor, and the first openly gay man in the U.S. Senate.
It might not have fixed every problem overnight, but it offered what Healy talks about in the track—a turning point. The song doesn't promote blind optimism, but it does encourage us to push through the chaos until we make it to brighter days. As we grow older and get ready to participate more directly in the system, we can take last night as a reminder that no matter what, we get the final say.
I hope we as a nation keep this momentum going and never look back, because I would truly love it if we made it.
(Also, if you have the time, I would highly suggest you give this song a listen! Aside from being very politically relevant, it is also just a great song!)
If you have listened to the track, you know how full of energy it is. Healy spends four minutes shouting in exhaustion about modern life, brutality, political scandals, environmental issues, and the absurdity of the internet. The song captures the overwhelming weight of watching the world go up in flames and declares that “modernity has failed us.”
Although he is British, Healy focuses on America—more specifically Trump—in his final verse. He drops Trump’s crude Access Hollywood quote (“I moved on her like a b*tch!”) followed shortly by his infamous Twitter acknowledgement of Kanye West (“Thank you Kanye, very cool!”), capturing the exact moment American politics turned into a train wreck.
By weaving real-life political scandals, internet memes, and celebrity drama into lyrics, the song captures the feeling of watching public discourse deteriorate into a reality-TV-esque spectacle.
The song was released a couple of months before the 2018 midterms during Trump’s first term. Living through American politics at that time evidently felt like being trapped inside those exact lyrics, and unfortunately still does today. The era where division reached peak toxicity, and every headline felt like an absurd joke more than a democracy.
That’s why the sweep of the midterm elections and the resulting “blue wave” hit with such a great emotional weight. For the first time in a long time, the aggravating noise has quieted down. Watching every vote push back against hate and reclaim control of Congress was both a huge political shift as well as a breath of fresh air. This midterm election introduced historic milestones across the country: Our first Muslim senator, the first Black woman ever elected governor, the first Native American senator and governor, and the first openly gay man in the U.S. Senate.
It might not have fixed every problem overnight, but it offered what Healy talks about in the track—a turning point. The song doesn't promote blind optimism, but it does encourage us to push through the chaos until we make it to brighter days. As we grow older and get ready to participate more directly in the system, we can take last night as a reminder that no matter what, we get the final say.
I hope we as a nation keep this momentum going and never look back, because I would truly love it if we made it.
(Also, if you have the time, I would highly suggest you give this song a listen! Aside from being very politically relevant, it is also just a great song!)
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