Andromeda

Andromeda

Weyes Blood

“Andromeda” is the second song on Weyes Blood’s fourth studio album, Titanic Rising, released as a promotional single on January 17, 2019. The song plays on themes of love, mythology, astronomy and technology in a world full of distractions and unrealistic expectations, taking prominent inspiration from Natalie Mering’s (Weyes Blood) youth, as in the rest of the album. As the singer told Notion in April 2019, “deep space and deep ocean are both very symbolic for the subconscious and, as somebody who is very introspective I am a fan of trying to navigate the unseen, the unknown and those mysteries that live within ourselves”.

In an interview for Believer Magazine the singer also stated: “True love in ‘Andromeda’ is kind of like this abstract thing to a woman who has accumulated a lot of negative experiences, and maybe not had a lot of support otherwise—which is kind of like me, navigating in a predominately male world for most of my twenties (…) There are a lot of wounds that a woman accumulates (…) That’s really hard to bring into a relationship—that is a total relationship killer. It’s a lot to ask somebody, of a man especially, to be like, can you please draw me out of my hardened shell and make me soft again? ‘Andromeda’ is a bit like that. The Greek myth is that she’s tied to a rock and she’s going to get ravaged by this sea monster and this guy has to come save her. There’s this hope to be saved, and it’s just a little too much to ask of people (…) Ultimately, at the end of the song, it’s like, you eventually just have to believe it’s real to make it real. It’s a lot to ask of the universe for something to just show up and blow your mind”.