Found you when your heart was broke
I filled your cup until it overflowed
Took it so far to keep you close (Keep you close)
I was afraid to leave you on your own
These are the opening lyrics to the song "Without Me" by Halsey. While we were discussing Medea in class the other day, the song popped up in my head and I realized Halsey's song relates directly to Medea's story. Verse 1 (shown above) reminds me of when Medea and Jason first met. She did everything in her power to help Jason get the Golden Fleece.
I said I'd catch you if you fall (Fall)
And if they laugh, then (bad word)' em all (All)
And then I got you off your knees
Put you right back on your feet
Just so you could take advantage of me
Onto the pre-chorus... This is when Medea finds out Jason completely used her to get the Golden fleece, made babies with her, then peaced out just to do the same to another woman but this time to get a better title.
Tell me, how's it feel sittin' up there?
Feelin' so high, but too far away to hold me
You know I'm the one who put you up there
Name in the sky, does it ever get lonely?
Thinking you could live without me
Thinking you could live without me
Baby, I'm the one who put you up there
I don't know why (Yeah, I don't know why)
Thinking you could live without me
Live without me
Baby, I'm the one who put you up there
I don't know why (Yeah, I don't know why)
Thinking you could live without me
Live without me
Baby, I'm the one who put you up there
I don't know why (I don't know why, yeah, yeah)
And lastly, the chorus. When I see this part I picture Jason on a levitating throne in a King's robe and crown while Medea's brewing up a plan. She's telling Jason, "Enjoy your throne because you won't have it for long." "Thinking you could live without me," in other words, "I'm planning on killing you... and our offspring."...dun...Dun...DUN...
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This is actually a very interesting post, Sara. I wonder if Halsey is familiar with the play and took inspiration from it, or if she’s just using symbols and analogies which are common to us in present day. I’ve done some research and found an album that is thought to be about Medea, or at least takes inspiration from it.
Most of Lorde’s Melodrama focuses on a lover who falls too hard and becomes obsessed with her significant other. In “The Louvre,” she betrays friends and family in order to be with him, only for him to leave her in the end. “Homemade Dynamite” depicts Lords acting irrationally in the beginning of the relationship, and although in love, she recognizes warnings signs. Her and her lover fall apart just as quickly as they fell together, seemingly similar to Medea and Jason’s beginning and end. From what we hear in “Writer in the Dark,” Lorde definitely doesn’t go as far as killing the man she loves, but she talks about how her revenge is her song writing on one of the last songs of the album. Medea’s revenge is much more dramatic, but again there are similarities.
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