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I recently heard the song “Age of Consent” by New Order for the first time, and it has been growing on me to the point where I am addicted to it. I have to listen to it at least 5 times every day. That bass guitar, which starts the song, immediately gives me goosebumps, and then the drums kick in. Eventually Summers starts with the line “Won’t you please let me go?”, and just that line has so much emotion in it, from pain to regret to confusion. And then transitions into the chorus, which at the first time it’s sung it is almost as if he is just saying it, just casually putting it out into the world. As the song goes on, the tone of that same chorus becomes more and more emotional, ending in almost like an exclamation of realisation, as at the same time we also get more and more information through the very scarce yet much telling verses. And throughout the entire song it is just that constant bass guitar riff. It does not change, not for the verses, chorus, or bridge. It just keeps on going forward and forward, with Summers only coming in every once in a while, as if he is jumping on a moving train, says his short lines, and then departs again, and the guitar just keeps on going. And then there is the meaning of the song. I haven’t quite figured it out yet, but I get the feeling that, just like the title of the song, the lyrics are purposefully meant ambiguous and vague. We are not supposed to know exactly what the story is, but we are given just enough information that we can feel the emotion of the song, yet we can only guess what happened.