The Buzz Is All Mine

Helena Deland “Spring Bug”

“Spring Bug” is obviously about the spring, but the idea in this song – being excited about a change of seasons at least partly for nostalgic reasons, and reconnecting with older versions of oneself by reenacting favorite experiences – is applicable to all the seasons. If anything, in we tend to think about this with regards to summer and autumn with music, so Helena Deland is sticking up for an underrated part of the calendar. Underrated, maybe, but definitely the most symbolically rich as a period of rejuvenation. The tension in this gentle and easygoing song seems mainly in the contradiction of feeling reborn but running into previous selves. The past doesn’t die as you keep living, but it might ask to sit down next to you for a few minutes on a park bench while you look out at budding flowers.

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