This would be Jerry (Benicio Del Toro), Steven’s friend since second grade. Just before the funeral Audrey remembers someone who must be notified right away-someone with no phone, who must be told in person, and if he wishes brought to the funeral. “Well then, write that,” Audrey decides.Įven when you think everyone has been told, there’s always someone else. Good rebounder, Neal replies slowly, somewhat abashed by the triviality of the subject. “What did he think of him?” Audrey asks her brother Neal (Omar Benson Miller), who sits at Steven’s computer. There are distant family members, long-neglected friends, acquaintances and business partners to be notified arrangements to be made, flowers to be ordered, a large gathering to be prepared for and always all the minutiae of ordinary life to be attended to.Įmail and voicemail continues to trickle in from people who haven’t heard, like an old college buddy of Steven’s who writes on the day of the funeral to chat about the Sonics’ new power forward. Like a wedding, it is a thousand mundane tasks. It’s strange how that happens.ĭeath is not a single traumatic event. “We still have each other,” she remembers Brian reminding her even then (I keep starting to type David). The point of the title is that the things that were lost in the fire - which to Audrey seemed at the time so important - were just things. Brian’s death is unrelated to the titular fire the fire occurs years before the events depicted in the film. An immediate family member of one’s own stage in life - one young to die - is very different.ĭeath puts life in perspective. It’s one thing to bury a grandparent or even a parent. Maybe the Weeknd is still mad about Drake’s attempt to romance Bella Hadid during the couple’s six-month-long break.I can’t really imagine what it would have been like to watch Things We Lost in the Fire last year, or the year before. Thought the relationship between the two Toronto natives has sometimes been bumpy, it’s never been this tense before, at least publically. If the lyrics are in fact in reference to Drake, it’s unclear what provoked them. Of course, Drake claimed he actually did the opposite on last year’s “Emotionless,” on which he rapped, “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid.” And while he could never “hide one,” the Canadian rapper had no problem doing exactly that until he was called out for doing by Pusha T during one of last year’s nastiest rap beefs. On the track, the singer makes clear that he intends to take his time to find the right partner to have a child with, unlike Drake who fathered a child with a French adult film star after a one-night stand. While The Weeknd could, in theory, be singing about a fictional situation, it’s hard to see a lot of similarities between the lines and last year’s shocking revelation that Drake had a secret son. “And I just want a baby with the right one / ‘Cause I could never be the one to hide one,” he sings on the song, which was released last night. On “Lost in the Fire,” an NSFW collaboration with French DJ Gesaffelstein, the crooner seemed to aim a very pointed dig at his fellow Canadian and sometimes friend. Did The Weeknd take a shot at Drake on his new song? It certainly seems like it.
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