The girl in “The Archer”—she is full of secrets everybody already knows. When she sings, “I never grew up, it’s getting so old,” she thinks nobody has ever noticed this. When she admits that she has a history of turning her friends into enemies, she’s absolutely certain she is the first to mention it, as if her friends and enemies don’t laugh about it together. She cannot stop marveling at how skilled she is at hiding her feelings inside, as they dance merrily across her forehead and embarrass the fuck out of everyone else. She’s the archetypal cool Eighties friend who comes out to friends who
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