Discussion about bladees reoccurring motifs
So I’ve liked bladee and drain gang for a few years now but one thing that always bothered me was how the community doesn’t really discuss his weird esoteric motifs as much as they should.
Basically what I mean is, when bladee refers to strange concepts like the world being a trash island, loss and gain (the drain concept in general), eating the night, and 3 stars. They are very vague and yea you can kinda infer the meaning behind some of those, and don’t get me wrong bladee should never explicitly say what any of those things mean in a song, but I just wished there was more discussion from the drainers around what these concepts mean and how they tie into bladees music as a whole.
This is kinda goofy but I’m going to leave some concepts in bladees music that I think are weird and cool and unexplained, and I would like to hear some drainer interpretations on what you guys think it’s means and why it’s there:
Red light: I think this is a metaphor for stagnation, it’s a reference to both red traffic lights telling you to stop, and to the redshifting of starlight as time goes on. As the universe grows older and older, the stars are pulled further apart until the only light that’s left is so old and far away it’s just red in the void of space. This is reflected in the album cover and when bladee is super depressed on this album he says he’s “in the red light” as if he’s at the end of his time. There’s definitely more to it than that so and it ties into some other motifs that I’m about to bring up
Eating the night: I have no clue what this means, I think it has to do with bladee embracing his own darkness and becoming better for it. Like the yin and Yang mixing or some weird alchemy metaphor. I’ve also heard it’s a reference to the Iliad. Please drainers I’m at a loss for this one. (Or gain I guess lol)
3 stars: bladee is referring to the members of drain gang but maybe also Orion’s Belt? I don’t think it’s soley referring to the 3 members of drain gang but I think that is part of it because on crest he says a line: “5 star crest” which seems to be referring to all 5 members of the dg. I think there is more to it though.
Trash island: this is seemingly bladees gnostic perspective on the world being nothing but an island of trash floating in open ocean (outer space).
Anyways I know this post reeks of “I’m 14 and this is deep” energy as bladee doesn’t really expand on these topics or when he does it’s kinda subtle and again secretive/esoteric in nature. So it’s easy to gloss (lol) over these things. But if anyone has anything they wanna add or ask about any of those topics I would love to hear it, as I think there needs to be more discussion among the drainers about the weird shit.