has anyone figured out the influences for ‘afraid of the dark (demo)’ ?

the melody is so familiar but i still can’t put my finger on what it reminds me of 🥲

bonus clip of ‘hounds of love’ for the possible easter eggs — “hold me down”, “darling”, and the notion of taking off your shoes and tossing them away (“left my shoes in the street so you’d carry me”)

‘running up that hill’

I can only share one video per post, so up first is the snippet of ‘I never loved you’