AHHHH i loved hearing dodie's opinion on this because i knew that there was so many differing ones. anyway, after seeing this i kinda wanted to say what i thought and see if anyone else agreed???? so here's my analysis:

Skin
Heat
Hair in your mouth
Feet touching feet
—
i found this like the simple parts of the romance that the two lovers enjoy and maybe fall back to. this could also represent how things start simply but escalate over time.

Oh you
And I
Safe from the world
Though the world will try
—
this is where i saw dependence on a person stemming, especially since it started with the 'Oh, you' singled out. it's like the pair is facing the world hand in hand, and that the writer is reliant on that person to be there to fend off the bad.

Oh, I'm afraid of the things in my brain
But we can stay here
And laugh away the fear
—
i saw denial here, like the writer is just shrugging off that their mind is filled with fear/negativity. the 'we can stay here' ties back to my view of the beginning, like being together/being close brought the writer that comfort. i imagined the 'we can stay here' this way because it puts an image in your head.

Numb
Fine
You create a rarity of my genuine smiles
—
this may have been the writers way of trying to please the others around them by faking it, making the 'rarity of genuine smiles' a lot more meaningful because the writer no longer has to put on a mask. they're clearly comforted by the lover.

So breathe
Breathe with me
—
i saw this as the lover attempting to keep the writer calm before/during a panic attack.

Can you drink all my thoughts?
'Cause I can't stand them
—
this is where the dependency and desperate nature comes back, because the writer is relying on the person to take the pain away like they usually do.

Ooh, oh
O-oh, oh, oh
—
this was the eeriest part for me, probably representing the horror of the mental illness truly getting at the writer and paring with the climax of the song in the last section. this may of been where the writer finally felt like they were alone and couldn't be saved by the other person.

Intertwined
Free
I've pinned each and every hope on you
I hope that you don't bleed with me
—
here i put the couple in my head right back where they were in the beginning, the form of this section being phrased/sang the same way. this may have been the aftermath of the panic in the climax. it also could've been the reality of the person aiding them coming back, snapping out of the fear/anxiety they felt, but the person being there in the end still aiding/comforting them.

I'm afraid of the things in my brain
But we can stay here
And laugh away the fear
—
i thought this was a light and simple way to end because it was restating words from earlier, maybe showing the calm before the storm. it was like the writer was saying that although their mental illness will weigh down on them, they will always be able to come back to their safe place and make it out of the terror alive and okay.


I had a similar theory, just not as in depth. I thought it was about a person (you) struggling with mental health, finding someone that helps them (lover/significant other), then the other person leaving the other the person that need help alone by themselves to fight. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful song with the world Dodie, it is truly appreciated. <3


doing english gcse i often felt like we extrapolated so much meaning from where there was so little just to reach the A* bracket. your art is so subjective and has so many paths of interpretation, its lovely to listen and explore what it could mean. as much as it felt arduous picking apart poems at gcse i miss analysing art and finding hidden meaning, and i loved watching this and re-experiencing that without an the weight of an exam at the end! amazing song dodie xx


I've always seen it as a<br>"I love you, you're all I have, you are my hopes and dreams, I'm afraid of you leaving me. " sort of thing. I love you, but this is all I have, please don't leave and let me get worse.

I've always seen it as a
"I love you, you're all I have, you are my hopes and dreams, I'm afraid of you leaving me. " sort of thing. I love you, but this is all I have, please don't leave and let me get worse.


Hey @doddleoddle plz can you do a tutorial on intertwined as i love it so much and no matter how much i watch the video i cant copy your chords or find a tutorial any where which matches up with the way you play it


i took the song to mean, like you said, a sweet tale of lovers one of whom is suffering with mental issues and the other person somewhat helps but not entirely, the "intertwined" and "breathe with me" added imagery of synchronising and how the lovers have melded together somehow and there is an element of condependecy


When I first listened to the song I though it was really sweet and then I realized that It was about a toxic relationship. I thought it was that neither one of the people wanted to leave the relationship but both knew it was bad


The first time I heard this song, I was reading The Parable of the Sower, which is a COMPLETELY different take on the song. It matches up really well, but it suggests a whole separate situation. (I highly recommend the book if you haven't read it already)

Wowowowow I have completely fallen in love with this song again.


sammy must have really really listened to the lyrics and thought about his idea for a LONG time, just to execute a very simple, yet intriguing and deep concept


Intertwined is a really important song to me! I listened to it while going through a difficult time, I opened up to my partner about my mental health issues which was of course a big step, I felt like when I was with them all the problems melted away. Once I was dumped it totally changed meaning to me, looking back I wasn't supported as much as I should've been, we distracted from my problems rather than discussing them. So in a weird way the song just reminds me of that point in my life and how my perspective on it has changed.


Intertwined
I've imagined this song in a music video. A birds eye view of a double bed for verse one. The girl (writer) remains constant throughout and the partner will change between verses.

The first verse, for me, is about a hook-up, one night stand type thing. 'Skin' and 'heat' are representing the main things that the people involved are thinking of and feeling (physically) the next lines go on to describe physical things 'feet' and 'hair'.
'Safe from the world' as the pair are alone and away from judgement and all other hurt it's just a physical encounter as emphasised by the focus on physical things in the first few lines.
As the chorus first plays, the fear of the 'things in my brain' has unique background vocals to the rest of the line. This implies here that the 'things' are emotional things rather than the physical previously mentioned. But the girl sings that they 'can stay here and laugh away the fear' as this bit of fun will help to cure (more like cover) the 'things in the brain'.
The shots for this verse and chorus in the video would show the girls side tables of an empty condom packet and Lacey/sexy clothes thrown around implying this causal encounter was planned.

The second verse, to me, describes a dying and empty relationship. 'Numb' interrupts the music followed by 'fine' as if to reference how the writer would describe the relationship to herself verses those around her. But she reminds herself that her partner can 'create the rarity of her genuine smile' implying the sadness she feels (possibly referencing the 'things in her brain'). 'Breathe, breathe with me' depicts the need for support from someone to do anything and everything including the basics and implies that the partner does that for her. 'Can you drink all my thoughts, cause I can't stand them' emphases the need for support and now highlights the want of the writer to unload her emotions onto her partner.
The chorus here for me shows that the writer is afraid to face her true feelings ('numb'/'things in my brain') because she needs the emotional support. This is so tragic when discovered that it's almost humorous 'laugh away the fear'.
This verse and chorus's video would consist of photos and books on the side tables and even slipped waiting at the bedside and a neat duvet covering the couple. They would face away from each other representing the 'numb' relationship but still be together in the same bed, providing that support.

The final verse is beautifully describing making love to the one you love. The couple are 'Intertwined' because that is the only way to describe how they are linked because they are tangled up together so close. 'Free' as the true feelings are released just as the adjective suggests. The pinning of 'each and every hope' is a reference to the risk of pouring out emotions to this one partner. This is followed by a 'hope that you won't bleed with me' this describes the fear of hurting the partner through the baggage and hurt that the writers carries.
The chorus that follows once again pins the fear on the 'things in (her) brain' and so shows that there is no escaping these emotions.
The video of the final verse and chorus would show a couple in the bed face to face. They will hold each other tight and intimately. The side tables will have photo frames turned over to show the girl has moved on or possibly implying cheating and there will be causal clothes everywhere to show the passion in the preparation for the sexual encounter but also the lack of care for the classic sexy look but the actual appeal of eachother was inside eachother and not the sexy underwear they were wearing.


💛💛💛 I really appreciate that you took the time to explain your meaning behind the song. Even though my initial interpretation doesn't match up, I always love to learn about the "true" meanings/writers meanings behind song lyrics.

I personally had a very emotional reaction to this song because of the mental illness theme, but didn't see the sort of dependence theme until you first mentioned it (on twitter maybe? I can't remember... it was before this video though.)

Although I reject the romanticized idea that a person or true love can "fix" mental illness, I also believe that having someone helps. I'll be absolutely devastated if my current relationship ends, and if it does i'm sure i'll look back on saying things like this and hate that I said it. But right now, I'm in a relationship and it helps me. I have bad times and good times, but having Josh there for me--ready to talk things out if I'm feeling off, or distract me if I need a break, or simply hold me when I need to cry--it helps. Sometimes I do worry that I'm too dependent though, so that's why I can never sing along to the line "I've pinned each and every hope on you, I hope that you don't bleed with me" without a few tears. Personally, I always saw this song as pointing out the fears and the problems in a relationship where one or both parties suffer from mental illness, but focusing on the hope, happiness, and the safety of it. I still do, actually. I'm not one of those people who's going to say that your interpretation has "ruined it" for me. To me, this song is always going to be about having that person to hold on to. Having someone who helps you let go of everything else sometimes.

Intertwined. Free.

in summary, thank you dodie for a lovely song. it makes me cry a lot. the end


wow it's really interesting to see the difference between what I thought it was about and the reality of the song :)


i always interpreted 'intertwined' as a sweeter song. like a conversation between two partners, one struggling with feelings, and gushing thoughts and asking for help from the other. and recieving the help?
but now i see. i think i still feel a connection on a personal level, with how i viewed the song, but i do understand more now.
thank you for all you put into yout music dodie. ily.


I sort of saw it to describe and close but limiting relationship. after watching the video I assumed it was about domestic abuse and how it can mess with your brain and make you feel trapped and doll like in a relationship if that makes sense. like "but we can stay here and laugh away the feel" I thought meant "this relationship is horrible but lets just ignore it as if nothing's wrong"


I guess I really interpreted the song as in she was more afraid of loving him or the other person or just love in general. As it says "I am afraid of the things in my brain, but we can stay here and laugh away the fear" implies that her Brian is afraid of loving (her fear) but she tries to forget and tells herself we are only laying (laying=not in love yet. Also going into how you lay before you go to sleep but are not completely asleep right now.). "Numb and fine" although they are contrasting also leads that numb is the numbness of their relationship because she can't fully commit to loving him. "Can you drink all my thoughts because I can't stand them" shows us that she wishes he could here what she has to say but she cannot speak it. For the lyrics "I've pinned each and every hope on youI hope that you don't bleed with me", this tells us that she has given him the hope of love but she is still working it out and doesn't want to see him suffer.<br>I hope this isn't too rambly and hard to understand. Idk it's just what I thought it represented. I love this song no matter what it means and I love you Dodie! Congrats on 1 mil too😁

I guess I really interpreted the song as in she was more afraid of loving him or the other person or just love in general. As it says "I am afraid of the things in my brain, but we can stay here and laugh away the fear" implies that her Brian is afraid of loving (her fear) but she tries to forget and tells herself we are only laying (laying=not in love yet. Also going into how you lay before you go to sleep but are not completely asleep right now.). "Numb and fine" although they are contrasting also leads that numb is the numbness of their relationship because she can't fully commit to loving him. "Can you drink all my thoughts because I can't stand them" shows us that she wishes he could here what she has to say but she cannot speak it. For the lyrics "I've pinned each and every hope on youI hope that you don't bleed with me", this tells us that she has given him the hope of love but she is still working it out and doesn't want to see him suffer.
I hope this isn't too rambly and hard to understand. Idk it's just what I thought it represented. I love this song no matter what it means and I love you Dodie! Congrats on 1 mil too😁


There was one line that I interpreted a bit differently: "You create a rarity of my genuine smiles". To me that sounds as though the person who is "you" is also causing some of the pain the singer is feeling. As though it says "it's your fault my smiles are rare" or "you've made my smiles into a rarity."


I love you. And I love your song. If people are disturbed by it, they're supposed to be. It's a great concept. And people need to stop telling you how to be or who you are. "Oh this isn't Dodie!!! This is too scary/dark!!" Um no, it is Dodie, Dodie isn't some perfect being, she's human and she's allowed to express her emotions


This is really interesting !!! Especially because when I listen to it I hear something similar but not quite the same. I hear it as though its all happening in a split second of thoughts and the speaker is panicking and fretting paranoid that their partner doesn't love them that much because of their desperation to "pin each and every hope" on them and to unload all of their shit on them. The partner in this situation is recklessly happy but confused by the speaker as they don't quite understand their thoughts. They are being strung along and are going along with it but not really taking any of the bad stuff.  It truly is a beautiful song and is so incredible because of its deep deep meaning and the fact that everyone will interpret it in their own way and in a way that relates to them. Please keep making breathtaking music like this and I'm now going to have to listen to the whole EP again for the millionth time !!


I like this song a lot Dodie! I recentally went through (and am still kind of going through) a terrible thing. I had a very close friend and she was great to me for awhile. But a few months ago she changed. And she didn't even realize what she was doing to me (wich is not her fault bc i never told her(. She would sort of ignore the fact we were fighting a lot more and not as close. When i would try to explain this to her she would make me feel bad about it and somehow make everyone around us agree with her. She did other small things that would hurt too. I would stay up most nights for 2 months and cry ovee what was happening. It got to the point where i had (with her help) brainwashed myself to think that the only thing i was made for was her happiness (so everytime i did something and she didn't react positively i would mentaly and physically beat myself up about it later). It was a terrible cycle and i am starting to repair myself. I took up art and a few good books. I cut ties with her today (wich was way more dramatic on her end then what i wanted). And i just needed this song today. It was a nice outlet. Thank you ♡


A beautiful song that camouflages itself as a traditional love song, but when studied or considered deeper (more than most artificial pop love songs) it discusses the important and sometimes damaging part of mental health in relationships.
'Intertwined' is such a strong connection to my last relationship. I was suffering really badly from anxiety, and on some level depersonalisation, which removed me from the connection that I felt with this boy. I wanted so desperately to be a part of the love he gave to me, but my mind was running a million miles an hour and couldn't slow down to connect with him.
"Laugh away the fear" strikes such a cord in me because it perfectly describes the mask placed over the top of any doubt or worry within a relationship (for me at least) especially when mental health is involved. I so often pretended that all was fine, but I knew that it wasn't working because I was too overrun by my mental health and I couldn't bring myself to burden him with it. He knew that it was a struggle that I faced, but the artificial idea of love and connection was pushed onto us and that clogged a lot of the pathways between us.
Thank you so much, Dodie, for creating such a beautiful love song. Though it isn't the traditional love between a couple, it is realistic about the experience in relationships when mental health is involved.
Thank you for being real and sharing your struggle with us. I promise that even when you feel the most vulnerable and broken, you will move through it and you are simultaneously helping other people xxx


holy shit do writers really think about all the techniques and structure when writing? i'm shocked, i just supposed that we were always just overanalysing random unintended techniques in english lit class.. :))


well, dodie, before i just listened to your wonderful beautiful voice. but when i watched the video, it made more sence to me. Before looking in the comments of Intertwined, i knew it was mental illness. becuase i have mental illness too. i understood. now i want to go learn the song. Tha k you dodie!


i'm actually making a short film for my 2nd year of film school inspired by this song that explores the themes of intimacy and vulnerability. I saw it, literally speaking, as the idea of 'intertwining' yourself with someone else, and how intimate that can be - and how vulnerable it makes someone. the line ' you create a rarity of my genuine smile' is my favourite because i felt that it shows how comfortable you can become around someone you love, just some thoughts i had :D but i love the song so much, it really got me


Ily so much Dodie!! Does anyone know what camera Dodie uses? Also, is it good for taking pictures? 😘❤


i figured that the song was about a relationship and depending on the other partner to be there to hold you up and help with problems when you need them, but i didn't realize it was written this way.


The way I interpret songs is like a story. So in this "story" there are two people who love each each other but have a hard way of saying it. In other words they love each other but they're too scared to say what they really feel and have to fight these demons in their head that tell them they shouldn't love one another. I don't know if this makes sense but I REALLY love this song and your music dodie ✨💕 thank you😊💕


Being a really not intellectual person, I never really thought of the background of the song. I just thought it was a nice DODIE song. But after this video, I listened to it again and, hell yeah, it's quite dark, and the way you wrote is super clever. Thank you for all of you music DODIE! Also, do more videos like this please! (Lmao DODIE autocorrects to capitols.... (Dodie*))


I love that this song can mean so many different things to different people. Personally, I saw it as a love song, where the two relied on each other. The person singing had maybe experienced trauma or had mental health issues but their partner helped them to overcome them and comfort them.


Wow I mean we knew dodge knows her stuff but JEEZ does she know her stuff. And I know this was her own song so she knows it very well but I'd personally love a dodie analysis hour where she analyzes all kind of music! She definitely made her English teachers proud.


Oh my gosh Dodie now I understand it so much better; the meaning seems so much deeper with the way that mental health/relationships are Intertwined. I won't look at it in the same way again, this makes it so interesting...


i actually blippin loved most of the music video, but i feel like some scenes took the lyrics too literally, with the timing of those still scenes matching up too similarly with the start and end of those lines (i guess it's prevalent in the first part) but other than that i am FLOORED


Dodie talking music terminology to me gives me sweet sweet lyf.


it's so interesting how myself and other can think so differently about the same thing and seeing different interpretations when I first heard the song, I think I related it to how I was a that moment which was extremely anxious and forcing myself into a relationship that I thought would fix me and make everything better. I thought the contrasting words at the beginning were comparisons of reality and the idealism that was in my head. I thought "intertwined" was like the mess of my good and bad thoughts messed and knotted together, but it also represented being close to someone and having intertwined arms and legs, aka what I thought was ideal. interpretations are so cool man


I love you interpretation! However its definitely not what I felt when I listen to the song.  I sort of went along with what you said when you first uploaded it about how it was for a slightly intimate scene ( maybe you were not ready to share this part of the song?). When I hear it I think of the morning after, when the sun is just rising and the sky is a dark blue silver, with the significant other asleep as you watch them . Its like a reflection of what the relationship has been since then and how you are like one person now, you are so in tune with your significant other and you are "intertwined". for me its like a dark room that the sun is turning red and you know that you can never let go of this person, like you have found them for the first time and everything is peaceful and quiet.  Its shows how in tune you are and how maybe you are scared of that, you are scared of what other people will think of this and how close you are and try to take you apart, which would be like ripping yourself apart, but when you are around the one you love everything goes away all the anxiety and insecurities because they love you so much. Its ironic because its such a contrast to what you believe, which maybe shows what sort of person you are- I'm a very positive person on the outside (not so much inside) , so I can see the light first, but ik now whenever I listen I was always think of the other side, which I kind of don't want to??idk??? But thank you for this dodo sorry I'm rambling I just want to A N A L Y S E W O O k bye


ohh boy. Intertwined hit me too hard when it first came out.
Like some other people in the comment section, I interpreted it as a romantic partner being your escape from mental health problems. But rather than it becoming a toxic situation, it was a safe haven where you could work through some of the mental health things.
I may have interpreted it differently if events in my life had been different. About a week before the intertwined ep came out, the guy I had a MAJOR crush on told me. When the ep came out, I decided to listen to it with my eyes closed to try and fully envelop myself in the music. And I lost it. The song made me vividly remember spending time with him and telling him more about my mental health than I had told anyone else.
So thank you for explaining your reasoning behind the song. It's allowing me to fully enjoy this song again❤


This video was so fascinating! Like I already got most of it but it's was super interesting! And also I totally see this happening to me in a relationship lmao soz future partner


For me, the song was kind of about unrequited love combined with mental illness (if that makes sense). That might just be because of who I am right now and the situations I have been in in the past few months. The first verse ("Skin, heat..." to "world will try") reads to me more like a fantasy; I'm dreaming of a world where I love you and you love me and we're happy. The last line indicates reality seeping in, the dreamer acknowledging to themselves that this isn't real and it won't work. The chorus is about the dreamer trying to forget reality and convince themselves that the other person returns their feelings. The "Numb, fine," lyrics show the conflict of the persons emotions around their love interest-- they feel happy because they're around, but they know that he other person will never feel the same way about them. The genuine smiles line might be saying that the person can only feel happy when the person they love is around them. The "Breathe breathe" bit portrays trying to calm your nerves around your crush, reminding yourself to breathe and slow your heartbeat. "Drink all my thoughts" shows that the person is sick of their crush consuming their mind and wants to get rid of their feelings. The fact that they have "each and every hope on you" means that they are still desperately wanting their feelings returned, but they don't want the other person to be miserable because of their feelings toward them.

Perhaps not as coherent a narrative as your version, but I think it's quite good.


I imagine it as like you get into a relationship and it's amazing and then it slowly gets worse and worse  because it's  abusive relationship and it's an ongoing cycle of abuse which the person is stuck in it and can't escape


when i first head the song i thought it was about someone who was afraid of falling in love, to like give in to a person and trust them but after i saw the video i analyzed the lyrics again and i thought maybe it was a couple who were happy and than they relationship started to fall apart, but they were to afraid to end things and be miserable


this video makes me so happy, I'm in ap lit right now and im so close to showing my whole class this


I definitely got the toxic dependency theme and how you were afraid of what that could mean but I did NOT realise all the other ways you emphasised that in the song absolute genius dodie absolute genius


For me I guess this song was about acknowledging your mental illness and basically saying you can't fucking stand it - and basically saying please oh please help me change my brain. I guess the idea of love and romance never came into it, for me anyways. But i love this idea of you making videos analysing your songs, it really makes me love the ep even more xxx


THANK YOU<br>It makes so much more sense now!

THANK YOU
It makes so much more sense now!


woah i feel kind of dark having quotes from this song on my walls now, i always interpreted it as being a metaphor for how scary things can be in the world but how you can always feel safe with your lover and how they can help bring you back to reality and make you feel safe again :p


my original interpretation of the song was that the singer (or dodie) was depending on her s/o to take all of the pain of her mental illness away from her so that they could share it and fight it together, which i guess is what dodie is saying here, but in my head it was a lot more melancholy and sad, like the couple are both desperately trying to hang on to one another and hoping that love alone will be enough to get them get through. The video has completely flipped my interpretation of the song into something a lot more toxic than I realised, which I think is clever because the melody is quite soothing, like it's lulling you into a false sense of security. that could kind of mirror the couple in the song shutting themselves away and feeling 'safe from the world' (the outside world being the thing they blame for their pain; they start denying that the cause is actually the relationship) and realising they only truly find their happiness in one another: 'you create a rarity of my genuine smile'. it creates a sense of safety within the relationship, but the lyrics start suggesting that they've fooled themselves into thinking that everything is fine and that they can share their burdens together. I also think the song starts off kind of sadly optimistic but gets darker as it goes along? as in the singer thinks that her s/o is stronger than her and that they can bear to help her carry her mental illnesses, but as the song goes on I get the feeling that she becomes hesitant and fearful as she realises that they struggle with mental illnesses too, and that they're only as strong as she is.. and she starts worrying that she's put too much of her pain on them, so she tries sharing their pain too and it just becomes a viscous cycle of dependence. I love the lyrics and the melody combined to make a beautifully sad song with really clever and subtle dark undertones - I just want to keep analysing it!


this matched up with my interpretation exactly


So here's my theory:
The perspective is of the person singing the song (dodie). She was going through a bad break up and was remembering the most significant parts of the relationship, hence the little details. The story is being sung to another person, perhaps a friend. The Oooh are separating memories and reality. So it starts with a memory:

Skin
Heat
Hair in your mouth
feet touching feet
Oh

You and I
Safe from the world
Though the world will try

(dodie feels safe with this friend and she felt comfortable as well with  her ex so she is conflicted to feel this way again)

(This is being sung to her ex)
Oooh I'm afraid
of the things in my brain
But we can stay here and laugh away the fear
Numb fine
You create a rarity of my genuine smile so
breath breath with me
Can you drink all my thoughts cos I can't stand them

(I think dodie tried to explain this to her ex and scared her significant other)

Oooooooooh ohhhhh ohoh
Oh oh oh oh o

(I feel like this is when she might be having a panic attack going thoughts switching from reality and memories)

Intertwined
Free
I've pinned each and
every hope on u I hope that you don't bleed from me.
(She repeated the part she said to her ex)
I'm afraid from the
things in my brain
But we
Can stay here
And laugh away the fear

(She feels comfortable towards her friend but is going to keep her distance so she doesn't ruin the relationship like she did last time)

This probably doesn't make sense but it's how I heard it. Lol


they way i interpreted the song was with two people, lovers or not. one understanding what the other is going through, and being a happy place for the other person to forget about whatever mental illnesses they may have (depression, anxiety etc). one is going through a rough time, but relying on seeing and being with the other person to relax and be happy around, more specifically to lay with and cuddle with to make their unhappiness go away, at least for a little bit, while they're together.

i personally would have made the music video a lot more romantic, or intimate with more happy undertones in the video. maybe a pair cuddling, laughing, smiling. and to show the mental illness side of it, have them coming to see the person or leaving them unhappy, but showing the sad person as happy while being around the other (since they make them happy and forget their fears)


I bet it's fun lecturing us the meaning when you have a stick in hand 😆🙂


this is exactly what I thought but I didn't know the techniques in making a song, example: 3:53 so interesting


Okay so to me the song meant something completely different. In my head it was about two lovers who depended on each other in hard times and helped each other. Intertwined to me felt like they were made for each other and free felt like they feel free of their problems when with each other. Fine meant that at first one of the two lies about their inner torment and I say at first because this is in the first portion of the song. Skin, heat, hair in your mouth, feet meant that they were very passionate lovers. So basically to me it felt like the song was about two lovers who could count on one another as a good support system. The video for the song confused me quite a bit as you can guess haha


Honestly Dodie, this just shows that you truly are a lyrical genius. I interpreted the song to have the same overarching dark, mysterious ( or better as you put it, Macabre) themes as well as themes of struggles going back and forth with mental health and codependency. Watching this in depth analysis just shone a light on some other aspects I hadn't noticed before, and now i have listened to the song countless more times and I am in awe. Thank you so much for writing this incredible song, happy late birthday!


i think that the video is very interesting because of the use of the dolls, it kind of creates a sense of childhood, and for me personally how when you are a child everything that you think will happen in the future is seemingly perfect. but in the video it shows issues with relationships and mental health and how it's very distorted compared to the child's view of things. i think for me it kind of represents the sadness of what you realise when you grow up and experience things such as relationships which is something that is so romantisied


i don't normally comment on videos, but i just felt that i had to share this:<br>i listened to this song religiously as soon as i got it on spotify and soon became addicted to the gorgeous harmonies and waltz-like rhythm. like most people, i didn't notice the underlying twisted theme and heard it strictly as a purely beautiful love song and envisioned two lovers dancing together in a kitchen with it playing steadily and softly in the background. incidentally, those two lovers in my head were replaced with me and my boyfriend at the time, and as i fell in love with this song, i fell in love with him. unfortunately, almost a week ago, he ended our relationship and was (and still am) distraught and heartbroken like you wouldn't believe. the very next day, i saw a music video for this song had been posted and i couldn't help but click to watch it even though i knew it would feel like salt on an open wound. however, i was shocked when the music video started taking a dark turn. it was so strange; as i kept watching it and as it got darker and darker, the lyrics seemed to unwrap themselves before me to reveal the intended meaning i'd been blind to. it's an odd sort of feeling, like the worst type of satisfaction, seeing how perfectly everything came together, as if my relationship was destined to end the way it did. i saw my relationship as well as this song as perfect and pure and untainted in the beginning, and even 'intertwined' the two together, but at the end, they were both unraveled before me and i saw the truth of them; neither of them were innocent like i thought they were. intertwined is now my favorite song, and even though it hurt like a knife in my heart to watch the music video, i can't help but be amazed at how it came to me when it did. it's a sort of sick, beautiful irony. thank you, dodie, this is really a gorgeously twisted song.

i don't normally comment on videos, but i just felt that i had to share this:
i listened to this song religiously as soon as i got it on spotify and soon became addicted to the gorgeous harmonies and waltz-like rhythm. like most people, i didn't notice the underlying twisted theme and heard it strictly as a purely beautiful love song and envisioned two lovers dancing together in a kitchen with it playing steadily and softly in the background. incidentally, those two lovers in my head were replaced with me and my boyfriend at the time, and as i fell in love with this song, i fell in love with him. unfortunately, almost a week ago, he ended our relationship and was (and still am) distraught and heartbroken like you wouldn't believe. the very next day, i saw a music video for this song had been posted and i couldn't help but click to watch it even though i knew it would feel like salt on an open wound. however, i was shocked when the music video started taking a dark turn. it was so strange; as i kept watching it and as it got darker and darker, the lyrics seemed to unwrap themselves before me to reveal the intended meaning i'd been blind to. it's an odd sort of feeling, like the worst type of satisfaction, seeing how perfectly everything came together, as if my relationship was destined to end the way it did. i saw my relationship as well as this song as perfect and pure and untainted in the beginning, and even 'intertwined' the two together, but at the end, they were both unraveled before me and i saw the truth of them; neither of them were innocent like i thought they were. intertwined is now my favorite song, and even though it hurt like a knife in my heart to watch the music video, i can't help but be amazed at how it came to me when it did. it's a sort of sick, beautiful irony. thank you, dodie, this is really a gorgeously twisted song.


I was about to audition this song for a school coffee house, I was just about to audition but the lady auditioning me left. Then I left the school crying.

Julia Payne awh I hope you're okay! you'll have other opportunities, I promise ♡


10/10 would attend Professor Dodie's english lit class again.

I was confused and a little jarred by the video when I first saw it, like other people it didn't fit with my expectation. Later on though, I thought about it and what YOU the writer were trying to convey, and it made more sense reading over the lyrics. It's a fantastic song and now I am convinced that the video goes perfectly with it :)


My view: At first, I didn't like the video. I understood that was about a relationship between someone with mental issues (perhaps anxiety, like me, wich is why I could relate so much and enjoy so much and be mindblown by you like so many times) and a person that this someone depends on. But I kinda notice more the cute perspective of the other person helping the someone with anxiety, I didn't stop to think that this could be a bad relationship with the "dependency" (sorry for my english) and I didn't see that on the video at first. But now I understand more. Thanks for the analysis dodie


I knew that the song wasn't a cute happy song because some of the things that dodie touched on in this video. I thought it was mainly about co-dependency.


welp i just got out of a relationship like that now that i lnow this... i feel alot more calm


kids: ughhh why do we do this at school we're never gonna use this in life

dodes: lol ok


and i was just rewatching the meaning of sick of losing soulmates yesterday


Its odd because my take of the song was both the mental illness idea but also the romantic, more 'lovey' idea. I loved the video though, what a cool but creepy thing. Also i understood the 'can you drink all my thoughts' as an alcohol reference? Alcohol has been such a main subject on youtube recently so i felt like the use of it to avoid the real problems really fit in with whats happening in todays culture. It also references dependency because often those who're mentally ill grasp at everything and anything that will alleviate their suffering for just a little bit, whether it be other people, alcohol/drugs or something else.


ah I really want to do an impression of you. would you mind?! u rock


Are you a huffle puff or a ravenclaw? I'm picking up strong vibes for both


I definitely thought of this song as a cute song about two people who make each other happy despite one of them's mental illness, but now i see the harmfulness in the relationship and it makes a whole lot more sense bc of the juxtaposition of the positive and negative words as you pointed out very eloquently. I also think I was just in another mindset the first time i heard the song, and now I completely understand bc of certain events that have happened, I've changed, my way of thinking has changed in such a short amount of time. I guess it just goes to show that stuff that happens to you, really makes a difference. (I loved the music video btw it helped me rethink my past connection to the song and this video cemented the new one)


I had to re-watch this a couple times before I understood. #notthebrightest 😂


I personally saw it as less of a dark song and a toxic relationship but more like... your partner is able to help you cope and find your way out of your mental health issues, and provide support. the writer is in pain and the partner can help alleviate that pain. "drink my thoughts" I saw more as being comfortable enough to share everything with your partner and pour your soul to them, "I hope you don't bleed with me" as I hope you don't have to feel my (the writer's) pain and go through the same mental health stuff? maybe I just saw it all with a more positive connotation because the music was generally pleasant-sounding  and intimate


I actually never really liked Intertwined. For some reason the lyrics just didn't fit for me (possibly a side effect of being only 15). I wanted to like the song, but I just didn't understand it how the cute romance went with the dark themes.<br>However, I absolutely adore the music video and it provided me a way that I understood it. Now this song means so much to me, and I think it's very beautiful. Thank you Dodie for this video and thank you Sammy for the VEVO video.

I actually never really liked Intertwined. For some reason the lyrics just didn't fit for me (possibly a side effect of being only 15). I wanted to like the song, but I just didn't understand it how the cute romance went with the dark themes.
However, I absolutely adore the music video and it provided me a way that I understood it. Now this song means so much to me, and I think it's very beautiful. Thank you Dodie for this video and thank you Sammy for the VEVO video.


I kinda feel like it gives mental health a bad outlook to those who have never experienced it/dont know much about it. I have depression, anxiety, and depersonilization and my mom (although I have been diagnosed) thinks that I am not "mentally ill" because she has a bad view of what that means. I feel like the video pressed the idea further which upset me. It is a terrible thing to experience, I understand that completely, but I dont want people who dont know a lot about mental disorders to be scared of those whose who are. That is why the video upset me.


in all honesty, I didn't quite like the music video. it scared me quite a lot but I actually sort of love it after watching this. I think if I had the chance to make the music video, I would have had two different parts of the story, but only two in all. I would have the girl and her lover wrapped up into bed and laughing and cuddling and having a wonderful time. but I would have also had just the girl, alone, screaming, and pulling her hair, or crying, something that I do quite often because of my sadness. the last scene would be her in a ball crying, maybe with something broken around her and she would look up and her lover would be there, smiling, and she would laugh


I got annoyed at people trying to say that this is simply a sweet song and then complaining about the video... I always related to it because it was a little disjointed and twisted.


bro one day if music slows you could be the coolest fuckin english lit teacher


Dodie would make a fabby English teacher!


when I first listened to this song i didn't hear it as ' cause i can't stand them ' so I didn't get the 'dark vibe'


Feel like I just had an English lesson... but I enjoyed it and the teacher is cute


Yay English Lit!!!! This video warms my English major heart <3


love love love you fucking beautiful genius


Ok my view  Firstly the title suggests it is sex themed but it lyrics speak differently. Firstly the lyrics show the 2 are madly in love hence intertwined into eachothers lives but it is to tangled causing some friction but the melody is happy to happy suggesting that they hide the problem/s. Near the end when your voices overlay and reach the pinnacle in stress the bond causing the tangle is cut and you 2 are back to being madly in love but more mature


Can Dodie write my English assignments thank you.


The way I interpreted it was that person A (singer or the perspective we see) is with person B. Person A is mentally ill, and person B takes care of them even though person A is having an extremely rough time. Person A has an illness that makes them afraid and maybe insecure, person B is concerned but isn't suffering because the relationship is taking a toll on them.  However, person A is afraid that it is, this song is them saying they feel guilty for putting so much on person B. The relationship between the two is somewhat leaving person A dependent on person B, but not to the point that it's unhealthy. Person A isn't pretending to laugh while they're afraid, person B genuinely makes them feel safe. I don't know, I guess that's how I saw it, but I absolutely love your interpretation. You're like one of my favorite people in the world and you're so unbelievably talented, love you, Dodie! (You probably wont see this, because there's a ton of comments, but just in case.)


I see someone who wants to trust and love someone else but their own thoughts worry them. "She" wants love and all the things that come with it - hence the first part- but she gets so wrapped up in the way she feels that she does not feel. "Laugh" spoken in vain becuase she wants her own faory tale and she thinks the relationship is better than how she already felt. She is trying to make herself a false safehouse but the bunker metaphorically has no roof. In a way she is trapping herself in a relationship because she thinks she has to be there and she wants to be there but cannot help herself in that way. "Numb" referencing the way she feels as she tries to satisfy her partner because she thinks she has to and "fine" being how she shows herself outwardly. "You create a rarity of my genuine smile" you does not mean her partner but her inner thoughts and the manifestation of the relationship itself. She <b>wants</b> her partner to take away her grief and that's the only reason she is kept there in a loop of denial. "I've" refers to her now realising I have done this and she cannot stand to cause someone the grief that she has and she forces herself out of the loop realising she can't do this anymore. This all shows her partner was not the problem and didn't cause the pain, only she did because she forced herself to believe and the final verse is a sort of sardonic laugh, laughing at how stupid she thinks herself, laughing at how she could think it was going to work.

I see someone who wants to trust and love someone else but their own thoughts worry them. "She" wants love and all the things that come with it - hence the first part- but she gets so wrapped up in the way she feels that she does not feel. "Laugh" spoken in vain becuase she wants her own faory tale and she thinks the relationship is better than how she already felt. She is trying to make herself a false safehouse but the bunker metaphorically has no roof. In a way she is trapping herself in a relationship because she thinks she has to be there and she wants to be there but cannot help herself in that way. "Numb" referencing the way she feels as she tries to satisfy her partner because she thinks she has to and "fine" being how she shows herself outwardly. "You create a rarity of my genuine smile" you does not mean her partner but her inner thoughts and the manifestation of the relationship itself. She *wants* her partner to take away her grief and that's the only reason she is kept there in a loop of denial. "I've" refers to her now realising I have done this and she cannot stand to cause someone the grief that she has and she forces herself out of the loop realising she can't do this anymore. This all shows her partner was not the problem and didn't cause the pain, only she did because she forced herself to believe and the final verse is a sort of sardonic laugh, laughing at how stupid she thinks herself, laughing at how she could think it was going to work.


When melting plastic the toxic fumes come out. The plastic heads were melting like they were letting everything out little by little and whilst this was happening the fumes were killing anyone in the room... ???? I don't know that thought just crossed my mind. Probably doesn't even make sense


I got most of the meaning then by the looks of it


This just proves that the best songs are written in obscurity and ambiguity. Examples being, Intertwined and A Team.


SO THAT'S WHY RUSTY MADE A COVER AHHGGGGG


I did not think of any of that when listening to the song. I kinda want to keep my brains version.


OMG THIS IS SO INTERESTING I LOVE ANALYZING LITERATURE AFDTDFDFSDDF


You are way better than my English teacher


and now I have reached the end of the video and I am SHOOK BY ANALYSIS <3 I think the main surprise from the music video for me was it being portrayed by dolls. 'Skin. Heat.' is so NOT portrayed by these rigid dolls so it was quite jarring, but then it got freaky and I was like HOW ELSE COULD ALL THIS BE PORTRAYED?! So yeah it was cool to see those internal conflicts and fantasies of mental dependencies and struggles shown through two unfeeling 'things'. LOVE THIS TOO MUCH OKAY BYE.

NO NO NO but I wrote that comment before I watched all of the analysis because I got too excited about the analysis but IT'S ACTUALLY EVEN COOLER LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN AN ARTIST EXPLAIN ART PIECE BY PIECE it's so exciting can we have an art club yet omg YOU MADE THIS FROM YOUR BRAIN HOW COOL IS THAT


hmm I thought the lyrics were suggesting a more freeing relationship, though I do understand the use of binary juxtapositions. Maybe suggesting the first is within the persons mind, and the second is true?


dodie why, I dont want to think about english lit right now, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?


could you just not see until you put your glasses on? 😂


This is unrelated, but are you using a Harry Potter wand as your stick thing?


To me it was about two people who are really cosy, and while the world around them is tearing down and trying to take them down with them they resist- "safe from the world though the world will try". I also thought it dealt with mental health and that they get through it together. "Oh I'm afraid of the things in my brain, but we" with but being the turning point towards something better. It's a beautiful song and can be so widely interpreted.

So I completely misinterpreted it and that's why I probably shouldn't have picked advanced higher English for this year😂😂


This was so confusing I felt like I was in English I'm dumbb


I never thought about the lyrics in that way :O woah


honestly im so proud of dodes, i've been with her since she released la vie en rose, and she's come such a long way in many aspects, and i couldn't be prouder of her she's such a precious angel


I love this interpretation much more than just seeing it as a sweet love song


Oh my goodness you're amazing and I loved the song already but now I love it a billion times more. Really, really nice job.


This video was a combination of two of my favourite things- Dodie and English Literature/poetry/analysis of text<br>Do you think you could make more of these for the other songs on the ep I find them really interesting?

This video was a combination of two of my favourite things- Dodie and English Literature/poetry/analysis of text
Do you think you could make more of these for the other songs on the ep I find them really interesting?


Please do this for all your music, I LOVE THIS!


I love this. The song has grown on me since I first heard it, as each time I heard the lyrics I started to piece together a meaning very similar to what you explained. At first I thought of it as a lovey dovey, standard, romantic song, however as I paid more attention to the lyrics I realised it was more about a relationship where the people involved depend on each other possibly in a difficult time or just for their mental well-being in general. I love how much thought you put into Intertwined. It's probably one of my favourite songs, because even though I'm young and have never experienced this, I still feel like I can relate for some reason and it hits me right in the feels!


I think intertwined is an amazing song, which became even better after having listened to your analysis of your song :) I really liked the way you analyzed the song aswell


when I heard this song for the first time, I did actually interpret it as a sickly sweet kind of love song, and I think I know why. I'm bad at like 'music talk' or whatever but the chords and the way you sing and the melodies all came together to really make me feel that warm and fuzzy feeling. But it's kind of strange because I usually don't see songs that way, even if they are meant to be sickly sweet. I'm always looking for a deeper meaning. But with this song I wasn't. I was completely content with a beautiful love song, which I saw (or heard) a girl who was maybe a bit broken, falling in love, and with the help of that person slowly mending herself back together. A really cool thing about art is a lot of the time we see what we need to see, and I think that's what happened. In the moment of listening to this, I needed something sickly sweet and beautiful and lovely and aH I love this song so much.


Loved this breakdown! I'm so happy that I had similar thoughts about what the song means as Dodie does!


YES YES YES YESSSSSS👏 When I listened to Intertwined I was like "Aw, that was a sweet love song about two broken people, probably after a intimate moment, finding comfort in each other" but then when I listened to it again and payed closer attention to the lyrics I felt slightly unsettled. Especially "I hope that you don't bleed with me" and the simple idea of being so thoroughly Intertwined with another person that you've "pinned each and every hope" on them and I realized oh shit, this song is about a sort of unhealthy relationship.<br>I really appreciate the way the tune sounds sweet and peaceful, but is hiding a darker theme. Similar to the way people suffering with mental illness will say "I'm fine" and appear as much on the surface, but are hiding a darker reality. Really really cool parallel and an amazing song.

YES YES YES YESSSSSS👏 When I listened to Intertwined I was like "Aw, that was a sweet love song about two broken people, probably after a intimate moment, finding comfort in each other" but then when I listened to it again and payed closer attention to the lyrics I felt slightly unsettled. Especially "I hope that you don't bleed with me" and the simple idea of being so thoroughly Intertwined with another person that you've "pinned each and every hope" on them and I realized oh shit, this song is about a sort of unhealthy relationship.
I really appreciate the way the tune sounds sweet and peaceful, but is hiding a darker theme. Similar to the way people suffering with mental illness will say "I'm fine" and appear as much on the surface, but are hiding a darker reality. Really really cool parallel and an amazing song.


I loved this song sooooo much ❤ I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it on replay 😫


I love this so much! This is so cool dodie, and your mental health and work process deserves an ENORMOUS amount of respect


i really love the song and i think the  video was put together well with the actual meaning


Dodie you should do this with more of your songs!! It's really interesting to see things from the artist's point of view


Thank you for making this! I think sometimes when we hear music, we see it only as it exists at that moment, through our own biases. We see it without its history. We don't see any of the messy bits or the effort and thought that went into it. This video felt like lifting up the curtains and gave me a whole new appreciation for this song!


I love this. I always love analyzing songs and their lyrics and it's so interesting to hear your meaning. I also loved how you explained the chord and tonal changes it made my music theory heart flutter ❤


Dodie, this is awesome! I love learning and understanding language and to hear it in the context of a song (joining the words with the chords) is really cool for someone who doesn't totally get music. I.e. This vid is sweet boi


the way you analysed this is pretty much exactly how i thought of it, only i still don't see it as a 'toxic' relationship. I've always seen it as two broken people working together to fix themselves, and yes it will be difficult and yes each of them will be worried about the other, both that their burden will weigh them down, or just generally that they aren't okay. i feel like the imagery suggests that they cannot fix each other and there's the worry of them breaking each other (which I've experienced many a time). to me, the music video felt just too gory for how i personally view the song, as to me, like with many of your songs, it means so much. i freakin loved this video though, as a total english nerd i was squeeing a little, especially as I hadn't noticed the 'intertwined' juxtaposed with 'free before'! I'd freakin love to see sammy explain the vision behind the music video and how he sees it link to the song, or both of you explaining the story of the music video (personally- obviously)!


this was such a thoughtful and interesting video and I loved it as much as I love the song, also I loved the music video so much I've been thinking about it 24/7 since I watched this and your explanation of it is so wonderful and heartfelt


when I first heard this song it really sounded like someone with mental health issues being in love and having a feeling of safety or like a reprieve from the thoughts in their head. It sounded like asking for help from someone they love and can trust to me and I just really love that but I really like why you wrote it too


<b>claps</b> Dodie you did a phenomenal job at dissecting this!!! Love you!!! <3

*claps* Dodie you did a phenomenal job at dissecting this!!! Love you!!! <3


THIS IS A REALLY COOL VIDEO! I know from writing a heck ton of songs myself that this is /genuinely/ the sort of process that writers go through to construct lyrics! Thank you for sharing this with us and showing the complexities of writing songs, showing that there's no such thing as thinking 'too deep' about it :D


I always thought the song was just a happy song about love, then the music video was such a stark contrast to this which got me to think a little deeper and listen more closely. This is such an interesting video, I love this sort of discussion. ❤❤❤


I'm in love with everything about this video, this is hilarious! How do you make something so serious so funny? (I love the part when you plug your own EP) The glasses and the stick really make your look complete.
I thought the song was about how the person singing the song was depending on their partner, and how their partner was there to support them. I saw the partner more as a shoulder to cry on. I wouldn't have suspected that the partner would be affected by the things the singer was telling them.
This just goes to show how you never know what is going on in someone else's life or relationship.
Dodie, I'm impressed. Thank you for this amazing piece of art! <3


Dodie! Oh my gosh I love this video. Please consider doing this with some of your other songs too please❤


Watching the video i was definitively given a mental health problem vibe, so good on you and Sammy for making a masterpiece!


wow this is so interesting! i saw it more cutesy and romantic, like someone who helps you through the pain and all those dark phrases seemed more intimate than dark to me, like sharing these deep things that you wouldnt share with anyone else. i thought of the listener as hope essentially. but, i love this interpretation as well! i think both appeal to different situations. as someone who has both been in a relationship where my partner dragged me in a state of constant paranoia and left me with lasting depression because of her mental health issues AND a relationship where we were both in dark places but we dragged each other out with listening, understanding, and care; i fucking love this song. thanks for the awesome video dodie!!


This is so interesting, because I had such a simple view on the song, as a sweet and almost pure song about someone who was a bit broken and found someone who they could be themselves around. I love reading everyone's different takes on it and what Dodie originally meant it to mean to her


this low-key blew my mind; love the song even more now.


when I first heard the song I was like oh it's a sweet love sing and when I saw the music video I was like wow this is different from what I thought and I loved the fact that I was wrong so I could experience the true meaning of the song and now that I know the true meaning/analysis of the song I feel I can relate to it I have anxiety and depression and I find that my relationships begin to become poisonous and toxic because I lay all of my problems on my partner. I have had few relationships because I'm pretty young but all the relationships I have had have started out amazing and I feel as if a weight has been lifted from my shoulders but it quickly turns sour and horrible because I lay all my thoughts on the other person. anyway I absolutely loved that you explained this dodie and I'm so happy you did because I feel I understand the song in a better way thanks dodie and continue to be an amazing person. xx


Wow Dodie, I knew your songs are amazing, because you put a lot of thought and effort into it and you're immensely talented. But it's also really interesting to see the thought process behind it all. Thanks for sharing! <3


And just when you thought that she couldn't be more amazing, THIS DROPS. So THAT'S WHY the song is so good! The amount of thought that went behind it is (in the best of ways) almost overwhelming! I would love to watch more videos that peek behind the scenes of the creative process like this one. Thank you :)


dodie !! i loved the video so much because it made all this stand out more in the song- when i listened to it at first without the video it just seemed like that sickly sweet you described, but i feel like i get it now. i love u and everyhing u do .it's now one of my fav songs of urs :,)


when I first heard this song (the original video), I found it as a song that explains a relationship between two people that both have mental health issues and the way they cope is being together, and spending time with each other, but as they continue to do that, they depend on each other, & soon enough it turns into a mess of a relationship


I love how whenever it gets dark you try to lighten it up by messing with colour correction and turn the clip purple. oh dodie. <3


This matches how I understood the song and it makes me even more heartbroken about. I've been in love with a person with mental health issues and it broke me. Yet I somehow feel attracted to people who are broken a bit and I had to learn to distance myself in order to not get hurt. Knowing a person you love does therapy definitly helps carry the weight. Oh what a bittersweet song.


Please do more lyric breakdowns! This was so fascinating xxx


shiiiiiiiit, Dodie! I loveeeee this more than you can imagine, I was confused at first watching the video, but a part of me did get it, and now I totally get it and your explanation is perfect! Wow x


i personally loved the music video and the story behind it . it's amazing how we relate songs to our own experiences and everyone can take something different away from the artist's lyrics . for myself it reminded me of my own mental health problems ,  and putting all of your hopes of happiness into the other person of your relationship . after knowing just how as you put it 'toxic' that can be the song has always given me that bittersweet vibe . when i listen to music i always sort of picture a 'video' of how i would visually represent the song , for intertwined i thought of a couple who were happy in the sunlight of the morning lying in bed and dancing around the kitchen , but by night they would argue and the girl was upset desperate to stay together . sorry this is so long i just really related to these lyrics and think they are just beautiful . wishing you all the happiness dodie & congratulations on 1 million , so proud of you ! 💛


this video has joyfully filled my english literature heart, dodie you impress and inspire me more and more every day


Im completely in love with the music video it's so artistic, in a way you rarely see in media today as it's to risky but I'm enthralled you took that risk.
I certainly interpreted the barbie aspect of the music video in several ways (so warning this may take a while to read). First of all the idea that you 'numb' your feelings to appear 'fine' and almost perfect much like a barbie does, but as the brain is the first 'odd' thing to happen in the music video the rest of it is her pouring out her thoughts to the point of destruction (the fire and the red liquid) due to her numbing her feelings for so long making her final acknowledgement of the 'things in her brain' to start to destroy her. This fits with the idea of her being 'afraid' of the things in her brain because she has suppressed them for so long she's scared of what she and the people around her will do when she finally confronts them and the fact that she isn't the perfect barbie image that she shows.
I thought also the idea of numbness is also represented in the fact that they are dolls, they don't don't feel anything maybe as a result of suppressing emotions.
And finally a really stupid one but the fact that they are toys, maybe they are toying with one another's emotions?
Sorry about the length but oh well


I'm going to go ahead and call this English revision! Love it so much.  Ah screw it I'm hitting replay, I just love being able to like Dodie said feed on the discussion of art.  Ah love love love ❤


I pretty much got it right! When i first listened to the song I imagined a couple, a very loving and happy couple, but one of them was suffering from some sort of mental issue that they eventuyally share with their partner. The partner however starts to see the World from the others perspective and ends up with a fair share of their own mental issues, and this results in a relationship that is so twisted and unhealthy, but at the same time, these people connect to each other, and they can relate to each other in a way that they can't with anybody else. To me, the song was about a very unstable couple that found stability in each other. Lmao that's kinda complicated but ayyy


"You create a rarity if my genuine smiles." I really like this line.

Ps your hair is cute 🙊🙊


YES DODIEEEE this was soooo satisfying. I secretly do this with all of your songs- I listen to it the first time to drink in the beauty and then a second or third time to pause it whenever i have thoughts on the verse or the way the sound molds or contrasts with it. (Signs of a future English Major lol) To be honest, I fell for the cutesy love song feel at first while I purposefully ignored the "hiding something beneath the surface" and "dependency" vibes you explained in your meaning. I really enjoyed the sound of it and I wanted it to remain a simple, calming song in my mind. I can respect that of myself, some things you don't have to analyze to appreciate, but after the music video came out, I realized that I appreciate the representation (of how mental health effects relationships) and the vividness of the representation (to the outside eye-no matter the obvious evidence of the story line) more than letting intertwined be this simple, warm love song. The fact that I let it be that for so long furthers the theme of there being something under the surface-so obvious and yet unreachable to the close-minded. sorry if this was utter nonsense lol. ahhhhh it's just so good. thank you thank you thank you Dodie, as well as Sammy. I love these kinds of videos btw-if you don't mind, i'd like to see more of these?? If you want to of course<3


This is pretty unrelated to the video (amazing as usual btw) but I just wanted to say how extremely happy I am that they're finally letting you see some professionals for your depersonalization. It's so shit to be waiting and I've experienced that first hand, and I just hope it's everything you want it to be and more. Xx I just wanted to say that ❤❤


I saw it as romantic until the video. I got to understand the pain of not being able to fix somebody who is broken. I found it bittersweet and truthful


I always associated this very beautiful song with the relationship that I have with my best friend. I, like others, imagined two best friends cuddled up and supporting each other even though they are both struggling themselves. This is how me and my best friend are, some view it as destructive because its true that we do heavily depend on each other, "I've pinned each and every hope on you" but for now we're helping each other through our madness and that is very good "intertwined, free" yes we are both tangled and a bit fucked up but we are there for each other. There are sometimes downsides yes but I wouldn't have anyone else by my side helping me and that's part of why I love this song so much. I relate it so much to my struggles with relationships and my mental health, especially when I've been with someone and I've had a panic attack "breathe, breathe with me" this is often the phrase that helps me to slow down and I love how that is sung so slowly and reassuringly. Basically thanks Dodie, your awesome and I love your music soz for the long personal comment xxxxxx


Not gonna lie, I would L O V E to see a continuation of the story from Intertwined. I think it was perfect, and wouldn't change anything about it if I had the chance.


this video is awesome!!! i feel like this is one of the songs you can interpret in so many different ways, and I guess everybody can agree looking at these comments. and that is one of the things that fascinates me A LOT about humans. the way we see things very, very differently, and that's so cool. i firstly heard this song and though that maybe, possibly, it was about mental issues, but having a relationship that can take your mind off it. it seemed angsty, but romantic. sometimes I felt slight horror-feelings, and thought that perhaps there was an undertone of uncomfortableness in the relationship, something toxic. then, I saw the music video, and my mind kinda blew up. of course, I though, this may be the undertones my brain had been hinting to me about. the song itself seemed romantic, but some romances doesn't go the way you'd like, and I think maybe that's it. you know, a pretty house, two Barbie dolls, who has in a long time meant 'perfect' in many heads. so maybe, the two lovers wanted a romantic, awesome relationship, but couldn't get it, but they were still reaching, and that made them both go kind of insane. reaching for something that most definitely weren't there. and then, the music video made me think of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, which made me think of all the theories about that. can you imagine as many theories about this music video/piece of music, as there are theories about dhmis. that really made me smile. cause this really is a piece of ART! and it deserves theories, speculation, criticism, everything that has to do with opinions. it's THAT brilliant. well done, everybody who worked on this music video- and also dodie, for writing amazingness.


I love how I always got the lyrics / dodie's meaning of the song and I wasn't surprised by the creepy/gory  theme of the video , I think it's because I have mental health issues too ( anxiety /depression and such) and I depend a lot on other people, I love how this song captures the way it feels to be in a relationship having a mental illness so well.<br>I love you Dodie and all of the "dodie shades" that you've shown us and I loved how the video was made as well,  hope you had a fantastic birthday! much love  🌼 - Nai xx

I love how I always got the lyrics / dodie's meaning of the song and I wasn't surprised by the creepy/gory  theme of the video , I think it's because I have mental health issues too ( anxiety /depression and such) and I depend a lot on other people, I love how this song captures the way it feels to be in a relationship having a mental illness so well.
I love you Dodie and all of the "dodie shades" that you've shown us and I loved how the video was made as well,  hope you had a fantastic birthday! much love  🌼 - Nai xx


i always thought the song was about dependence and codependency and i think the video matches my interpretation and dodies (which are quiet similar) and i honestly love the song and video 😊


dodie, i just realized how brilliant that line about "drink my thoughts" is. i've heard the analogy of "pouring out your heart" to someone, but I've never heard anyone take the analogy further than that, involving another person and having them drink the thoughts. honestly, so brilliant


woah, this analysis of the song was really interesting with respect to how it was made lyrically. as for the connection to the video clip, i had really enjoyed Sammys portrayal (though it did surprise me at how eye opening it was when it began) and it did seem to match a few theories that i had previously had.
1) similar to dodies interpretation (on her own song lol) lyrically i believed it to be about an unhealthy relationship- however i was more so thinking towards a more evident abusive relationship rather than mental health. i thought of this from the strangely agressive/ gory vocab used intertwined  (#spon #available out now) with the light and fluffy lyrics perceived about love and romance. to me it symbolised how when one someone can easily deceive when hiding their true intentions amongst a flowery shield of lovely words. the video clip  also supported this theory of mine when the first third consisted of doll poses of the "perfect couple", y'know its Barbie and Ken. but as the story continues and they drastically alter their appearence, it seemed like they were revealing themselves - the violent truths. by the end of the video where the house is burning with the destroyed dolls inside, to me it kind of represented how all the troubles and abuse- their secrets of it as most cases of domestic abuse arent known- is burnt away and the evidence is no longer there.
then again, this is only my theory :)
dodie did write the song and explained it in a lovely manner 💛


I find your song dodie beautiful and amazing!


to me this song has always been kind of about what you talked about but a bit less dark. This song to me is Even and Isak from skam, dealing with mental health and social pressures and breaking down and depending on each other for happiness and dealing with their problems together.


When I first heard this song I assumed it was intended to be romantic so I listened to it that way but it was very unsettling and I couldn't pinpoint why. Seeing the music video have a darker twist helped me understand some of the intention behind it and I feel listening to it as if it was telling a darker story than just two people in love made a lot more sense.


This was everything it was so interesting seeing the writer analyse there own work out of interest when you analyzed it did you see/hear/feel things in the lyrics that you'd subconsciously put in a didn't realize how it effected the overarching meaning of the song


Low-key wishing I had dodie as my English teacher lol <br>I always thought the song to be a nice, love song but now that you've explained it I definitely understand the video and I think I love the song even more now which I didn't think possible. Good job !

Low-key wishing I had dodie as my English teacher lol
I always thought the song to be a nice, love song but now that you've explained it I definitely understand the video and I think I love the song even more now which I didn't think possible. Good job !


this song has taken on such a different meaning to me now and hits a lot harder and I don't know if I should say thank you or not


I love this song such an incredible amount, I think I interpreted the song quite similar to how you intended it and I've always loved the intimacy intertwined (out now) with the macabre and damaged, toxic atmosphere of it all. I think Intertwined is such a strong song, fascinating lyrics accompanied by a beautiful, heartbreaking melody. We won't even talk about the climax and the "oh's". I love it so much❤


I loved it so much Dodes! I think that the way you put it was very brilliant, and I do feel like many people over analyze many things, which isn't always bad.. but can lead to the wrong impression of what the writer truly means. although reading other peoples ideas of what the songs real meaning is, is really really interesting and good to read, because it's from a different prescriptive. I loved it loads xx


I liked reading the lyrics as you explained your 'interpretation' of the song! It was fun :) I read/hear it, yes as a love song, but a love song about being in love and mentally ill. The dark tones and express and direct darkness in the lyrics do an incredible job of pointing out how hard it is to be happy and in love but also still depressed and ill. Dark thoughts and sadness doesn't go away because you're in a relationship or you're happy like we're so often told. They're reoccurring and always hanging over you - intertwined (out now) in your life, even the happy times.


to be completely honest I think intertwined is my favorite of dodie's. most definitely.


very cool! This more or less matched up with what I thought. Perhaps I didn't realize the relationship in the song was so "poisonous" and I kind of thought "Oh how nice, the person in this song found someone to make them feel not so crazy."


this video just reassured my love for this song. Even when my perspective was completely different from what it is now that I've seen the VEVO video and this one, Intertwined has been my favorite song from the EP (and possibly out of all of dodie's songs). My love for it has definitely grown and it now means so much more to me than it used to. Dodie, you're a genius. This song is so well crafted and it blows my mind how even the tone of the harmonies carry a single meaning with them. I honestly admire you so so much for your music, and will make sure to pay close attention to your music from now on. Love you :)

Also I've always noticed the contrast between "numb, fine" and "intertwined, free". I've thought for the longest time that it had been, as you said, kind of an internal conversation/fight between a rational part of consciousness and the other part that's "blinded by love". Kind of how the person sees the partner as the "savior" or the "doctor", since it says "i'm afraid of the things in my brain, but we can stay here and laugh away the fear", implying that the other person is a distraction from the mental issues and therefore the person thinks it is helping them. My perspective has always been kind of similar to what dodie actually intends it to be, but it has always been a lot less dark and, ironically, "blinded" by how romantic it sounds. I think now it is a lot darker, and a lot more real, which (as said before) just makes me love it even more.


I always thought of Intertwined as being a take on a twisted relationship, the combination of what we usually would see as being romantic, and what we most fear will come out of our relationships. I listened to the song and during the first words i was pushed into the loving memory of my relationship with my first girlfriend, but then as the song and the plot evolved, my mind was being held hostage in the memory of the last 2 months of that same relationship, i was taken back to the feeling of being depressed and feeling like i was nothing, i was so spaced out, and i wanted her to 'drink' my thoughts and feelings so she could get a taste of the pain that i was feeling because she just did not treat me right.

This song means so much to me, because i literally have never felt the power of a song cut in to my heart, whilst gluing the pieces that have been crushed back together.
Thank you.


when I first heard the lyrics 'can you drink all my thoughts' it came across as a relationship where the woman is dealing with mental health issues and the man suffers with alcoholism. with the blood in the video it kinda paired with this with the theme of like liquids taking over, the numb the man feels when he drinks from having to suffer along with his partner also. the genuine smile part plays along too as it shows parts of the relationship that are still funny and new but there's always the dark undertones of the problems both parties are facing. I love this song very much and I especially love how brilliantly it can be interpreted. another way is how me and my mum use the song to symbolise our relationships (ridding of the intimacy obviously) and how she copes with my mental issues. a beautiful piece, I love it


i thought the video was perfect for the song and also kinda understood the meaning of the song. I think it's easier to understand for those who live with mental illness (like me lol) LOVED the video, it was perfect for this song ♡


This is my favourite song of yours ughh it's all so clever, but the beginning just...ugh this is my favourite song of yours
The thousand times I listened to it, I thought "skin" with a few empty bars after it was a bit jarring to start with but I passed it off because I thought it was unintentional.
BUT NOW I KNOW YOU WROTE IT ON PURPOSE IM SO BLOWN AWAY AND ATTACHED TO THIS SONG AAA<33


I have to say I loved the music video. Sammy, as always, managed to show something that made me think in a completely different way then I noramlly do (dude is mad genius tbh). It gave me images and memories of how a couple can be so sfae and secure with each other in bed, hiding away from the world, perfectly at peace.. but underneath that the problems of a person who is somehow broken inside can just eat away at the person they are closest to. It's almost like the times when you are not lost in each other you are just lost.


When I heard to song it felt to me about a person who struggles with their mental health and life in general, but for a moment tries to embrace the bittersweet comfort of being intertwined with someone else. It's that simple, sad tinged feeling of just being in someone's arms and being too drained to try and deal with it all in your own. Just maybe a moment in time where two people lay down, not saying anything, and choosing to try and forget the problems for a moment of peace.


I actually pictured "Can you drink all my thoughts?" as sitting in a bar, alone, drinking to forget your problems. Considering your recent "problem" with alcohol, I thought of it as fitting (in a drowning your sorrows kind of way)


i think itd be interesting to hear a song from the other point of view as well, a song about what its like to be in a relationship where someone puts all their issues on you and you feel responsible for them and stuff idk


Hello so my interpretation
The first verse always feels calming like your so in love it's the start of a relationship which has been hard for the writer as they just came out of a difficult relationship which I thought was implied with "though the world will try" this verse to me represents love that could also mean "sex"
You are in love and rely on each other.
With the second verse you start to remember what it's like to be in a relationship where your not happy and your scared it might happen to this relationship that you "rely on". So as it starts to get louder and having more of an impact it symbolises the fear coming up in your brain but you don't say anything as you don't want to ruin this relationship. So you keep on laughing and falling deeper in love but the fear is still there so you laugh it away and pretend it's okay.
The third verse.
You are trying to numbed your self of fear and emotion and say your fine. But with this mental problem happening it minimises it's self by your love and makes you happy and you are happy and nothing seems to matters in thoughts moments because your in love. This is when you tell your partner about your thoughts and you become one in that moment as they know your brain he is absorbing your thoughts "can you drink all my thoughts". You have talked and you feel free you are able to scream and move on because that fear is gone "the ohhhhs".
Once you are less scared you are back to being intertwined in love free of fear. Than a thought of him being scared of your thoughts and him being dragged into your negativity appears "I hope that you don't bleed with me ". But you think back to having those fears and scary thought and remember what it felt like and Your happy again that your not like that and you are still in love. You can laugh the fear away because the thought of those thoughts are funny because you could never think like that anymore.
That is my interpretation.


Your interpretation of your own song is how I understood it, not in as much detail as you have gone in to but I basically understood it as themes of mental health and a relationship


That awkward moment when you underestimate the gravity of the mental health (I noticed it but didn't realise how dark it was), so you put it on a mixtape for your anniversary, then split up two months later for many reasons that kind of relate to dependency but definitely to mental health and anxiety.......


Just based on my personal experience with mental health, I definitely interpreted it as a more hopeful song than it was. I absolutely saw the dependency, but I didn't really catch the bits about how the relationship was damaging to the other partner until you explained it. I saw it as more steadying and how the other person provided hope minus how it could hurt both parties involved. Maybe it was just my brain trying to find what I wanted to see out of the song and apply it to my situation.
Either way, it's a genius song! When you explained it I definitely saw what you were going for!
Personally, when I saw the video I was so uncomfortable, not because I can't handle gore, but because this hopeful song had turned into that and it was a little shocking. However, I definitely see the appeal and even though the experience probably won't be the same anymore, it's expertly made and a terrific song and concept! I also thoroughly enjoyed the EP


This is going to be pretty short but my interpretation was more on the side of close/best friends. The lyrics painted an image of two friends sat on a sofa with blankets and tea talking about there problems. I love the song and I think the music video is amazing!!!


I'm one of the people that interpreted it as a (loosely) happy love song. You said that you based it on how you think you would be in love, and I think that's where the biggest difference in interpretations is. I am currently in love, living with my boyfriend of 2 years. I struggle with many of the same things as you, and being with my boyfriend has changed so much of my outlook on life. Every relationship before him had felt toxic - I felt as though I was "too crazy" for the people I tried to be with, that I wasn't good for them. <br>So I took this song as an ode to someone that finally, you know, got it. That you were admitting that you were not well, admitting that your smiles often stemmed from them, that you needed them a lot more than you were comfortable with. I picked up on the codependency and mental health issues, but I saw them directed at someone that understood.

I'm one of the people that interpreted it as a (loosely) happy love song. You said that you based it on how you think you would be in love, and I think that's where the biggest difference in interpretations is. I am currently in love, living with my boyfriend of 2 years. I struggle with many of the same things as you, and being with my boyfriend has changed so much of my outlook on life. Every relationship before him had felt toxic - I felt as though I was "too crazy" for the people I tried to be with, that I wasn't good for them.
So I took this song as an ode to someone that finally, you know, got it. That you were admitting that you were not well, admitting that your smiles often stemmed from them, that you needed them a lot more than you were comfortable with. I picked up on the codependency and mental health issues, but I saw them directed at someone that understood.


The music video was prefect and so creative. I love the idea . I thought it was very cinematic and told a true story of love. I personally got a lot of Romeo and Juliet vibes as when i first heard the song,  to me it was about how the world was trying to tear them apart, however they stayed because it was common to them, they felt safe and secure. The use of oxymoron suggest that they didn't have a set plan and that they both wanted different things but we're both on the same path suggesting the title "intertwined". I loved in the video the director picked up the word such as heat, skin and mind and applied it to the video scenes of fire and open brain. The video is one of the best pieces of work I've ever seen. Well done to everyone who was apart of making this happen.


Damnit Dodie, I wanted to write an essay about this at some point but now you've done all the work for me! (Just kidding, I still might analyse the video. And this was SUPER interesting and SUPER impressive wow GOOD JOB!)


Jodie, it called an oxymoron when two contrasting things are put next to each other, for instance sickly sweet  and laugh away the fear. Also Feather of lead and cold fire, both Shakespeare! Have good day. xx


Oh wow. Wow.
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Every creator should tell what's the meaning behind their work _ It's so useful and heartshaking and exciting!

Oh wow. Wow.
*hug*
Every creator should tell what's the meaning behind their work *_* It's so useful and heartshaking and exciting!


I actually feel like im in a literary analysis class in the best way. This makes me want to break down all my own songs like this now. I think it is natural to always wonder what the writer meant and was thinking when they were writing. And I think this shows just how much goes into writing. You are doing so much more than just finding two words that rhyme. Inspiring. Love Love Love. MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE <3


I was really glad to hear your explanation of the song, because it perfectly matched my feelings towards it. I am married now and my husband is incredible, but I know I depend upon him to "drink" my thoughts and wrap me up in a duvet when I can't deal with life. It is such a beautiful thing to be "intertwined", however, it can also leave you feeling unable to stand upon your own two feet.... but hey, that is the joy of anxiety. You did an incredible job of portraying how anxiety doesn't only strike when something bad happens, it can creep up on you even when you "should" be happy, like when you are wrapped up in bed with the one you love <3


I need more of this smart professor side of dodie


Dodie,
I really enjoyed hearing the breakdown from your POV. So many artists hide away from pinning down a specific meaning because of the reasons you mention; art has different meanings to different people. That does make it wonderful, but I wish more artists joined in the discussion in this way. Not saying "this is what it means and that is all. End of" but just saying what it means /to them/ and welcoming varying interpretations.

Personally I got a very similar meaning from it because I have also suffered from mental health issues and one of my biggest fears surrounding my mental health is how it might affect a romantic relationship in the future.
I've only recently found friends that understand and accept that I will push them away sometimes but will always pull them back in. How am I ever going to find a romantic partner that will be that patient? Not to mention one that doesn't care that I'm asexual 😅

Anyway, thank you dodie ❤


When I first heard the song, pictured it quite romantic(and it is, to me, still very romantic) BUT, the theme of the music video suggested a different point of view. It wasn't until I saw the video, that I actually read more into the lyrics and realized that the video was, indeed, about mental illness and how it can have and effect on relationships. Love the song a lot and I look forwards to hearing more songs by you, in the future.

Love You, Dodie! (and I know already said this on a different video's comments, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLY!!!) ❤❤❤


if u can be my english lit teacher then that'd be swell! but really thank u for sharing your interpretation of the song with us!

i always saw the song as a sad, romantic or platonic story, sung by two people! some parts are sung by the person with the mental illness (person a), and some parts by the person who's trying to help them (person b). the first set of lines, "skin. heat. hair, in your mouth. feet, touching feet." it could go either way for whomever is singing it. i'd like to think its person a, and it's a sign of comfort. how they find an amount of peace with person b. so, these lyrics are just innocent, loving. the next set of lines, "oh you, and i. safe, from the world. though the world will try-" i'd think person b is singing those lines. they're trying to reassure person a that everything is fine, that they'll keep them close and help them no matter what. the last line, where they're cut off, that's when person a sings, "im afraid, of the things in my brain. but we can stay here, and laugh away the fear." the first part of that, about the brain, i think is sung by again, person a. they suffer from their mental illness and are scared to approach it, scared to try and get help. the next lines after that are sung by person a TO person b, trying to convince person b that they're fine and there's nothing to worry about. but person b knows this isn't true. the next set of lines, "numb. fine. you create a rarity of my genuine smiles." it's person a singing, saying that the times when they're "numb" (disassociated) are hellish to them, but they'd still say they're fine. "you create a rarity of my genuine smiles." this is my favorite line. it's person a saying to person b that they're the only one who can make person a genuinely happy. a form of happy, one that isn't suffocated by their disassociation. the next set of lines, "so breathe, breathe with me." this is sung by person b, trying to calm person a, who breaks and screams, "can you drink, all my thoughts? cause i can't stand them." this is person a finally admitting that they need help. they're telling person b about their mental illness and how much they "can't stand them" (their thoughts) anymore. the next line, "intertwined," is sung by person b, saying that even though it feels like they're miles away from person a bc of their disassociation/mental illness, they still feel like they're close, together. the next line, "free," is sung by person a, saying that every thought they bottled up is out now, and they can truly get help. they can really confront their illness and have a form of hope. but that's what person a wants to believe. following after, though, is "i've pinned each and every hope on you. i hope that you don't bleed with me." this is person a singing to person b, realizing that they feel awful for pouring out on them about everything, and hoping that they don't hurt person b, just like they way they're hurting. the next few lines, "oh, im afraid of the things in my brain. but we can stay here, and laugh away the fear," is person a singing to person b, emphasizing that they're still afraid, but for a slightly different reason; person a doesn't tell person b that. the following lines suggest that person a now afraid of hurting person b, thus going back and telling person b that they (both) will "laugh away" person a's fear of their mental illness, just like how they said the first time they sung it. because now, person a's new fear, is hurting person b.

but hey, this is just my two cents. i've read a couple different interpretations and it seems like mine turns out to be much sadder than the others, lol. but again, thank u for sharing this with us! it's super interesting to hear about how you compose and write songs. keep making beautiful works of art like this one bab. <333 :)


oh my god im going into AP English next year is this what they're going to expect me to do????? oh god im going to die in that class.

this was such a beautiful analysis and i am amazed. love you lots dodie!!!!!


This is beautiful, staggeringly real and beautiful


From what I saw it seemed to be a relationship that started well and sweet, then going to dependability further down the line, just to the style sang rather then the lyrics. As well as the contrasting imagery from the happy beginning  to the sad end/