Fever Ray - “Keep the Streets Empty for Me”
“We were hungry before we were born,” - this line from Fever Ray’s haunting and atmospheric song sums up the hand life dealt the DeLuna and Torres siblings. The children of each family were never given a chance to know anything other than the violent and dangerous narco life they were born into.
Marissa Nadler - “Interlocking”
“Tried to live without you…saw our small lives interlocking…I’ve been tethered to this town,” - Andres was Sofia’s first love and first love can be all encompassing and all consuming. So when Andres left town Sofia felt abandoned, left alone to make peace with a life that didn’t have Andres in it. However when she’s called back home, and Andres happens to be home too, she feels as if no time has passed and she’s forced to confront the feelings that she thought she’d buried. Andres and Sofia come to find that their lives have always, and will always, be interlocking.
CHVRCHES - “The Mother We Share”
“Never took your side, never cursed your name,”- This song, for me, speaks to Diego and Sofia’s tumultuous sibling dynamic. The two share a memory of their deceased mother, but she was a different figure to each which puts the siblings at odds. “…and when it all f***’s up you put your head in my hands” - this is like the ultimate older sibling / younger sibling line because no matter what Diego and Sofia are still siblings and when times get hard they turn to one another for strength – “In the dead of night, I’m the only one here, and I will cover you, until you go…”
Jimmy Eat World - “Kill”
“Well you’re just across the street, looks a mile to my feet. I need answers for what all the waiting I’ve done means,”- Jimmy Eat World’s “Kill” is a tender, real, expression of wanting someone who’s so close to you, but feels just out of reach. Andres and Sofia have grown up, they’ve come along way from that easy-going teenage love they shared. Now as adults the obstacles between them are bigger and harder to navigate. But that doesn’t make the feelings they share magically disappear - “I know what I should do but I just can’t turn away,”- Sofia wrestles with her feelings for Andres because he did hurt her before, but he’s back now and trying to help her. She desperately wants to forget him and their past and move on but she can’t.
Halsey - “Graveyard”
“The thing you love the most is the detriment,” - Diego De Luna and his partner Yolotli are struggling with their relationship. They’ve been together since they were young teens. All they know is one another but as they’ve grown into adults the two start to wonder if maybe they have grown apart. Yolotli wonders if Diego, and his declining mental health and poor coping mechanisms, are toxic and leading to the end of their relationship.
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