Don’t Get Me Wrong Steven’s Song Is Way More Personal And Intimate Than Greg’s - Blog Posts

Im shure SOMEONE noticed that the fist two lines of Greg and Steven’s love songs both start with the same lines pointing out their (biggest?) insecurities. Just wanted to point it out, because I did NOT make a fool of myself by yelling out loud in public transport after I realised.

It just feels a little ironic when you think about it. He’s spent his entire life surrounded by Gems—beings born with purpose and identity, their purpose and reason for existing decided from the moment they emerge from the ground. Steven trying to mirror the adults (as a child does), but that’s hopeless because Steven is different. As a half-human, he has to grow, learn, and figure out who he’s meant to be over time. He just doesn’t see it because no one tells him otherwise. (Like when he sings, “I’ll fight to be everything that everybody wants me to be when I’m grown,” and I believe he said something along the lines of, “I want to know what I’m for,” when he encountered Cloud Rose?? (Correct me if I’m wrong))

He’s constantly trying to be his mother from his Gem side—partly because everyone expects him to, and partly because it’s the only blueprint of purpose he’s been handed. But on the human side, he’s trying to emulate his father. Greg is the only consistent human influence he’s known, whether it’s wearing Greg’s old, unsold merchandise shirts or adopting his dad’s laid-back, carefree style, down to the flipflops and nutritional, musical habits etc.

It’s bittersweet really.. Even after their disagreement, Steven still clings to Greg as a beacon of what Steven is supposed to be as a human confessing his love (and therefore his music as a guide.) He borrows from his father’s most successful song for the opening lines of his own deeply emotional, personal song. It’s like he’s trying to bridge the gap between what he’s been told he should be and who he’s desperately trying to become?