Jean: So…

Ali: There shall always be something new to say about the intro!

Jean: *rolls eyes* So! You can interpret Pearl’s pose in two different ways. One interpretation is that it’s just kind of a scenic way of showing that she is in the song, that it’s like, she is holding hands like that because she is singing to an imaginary microphone.

There is also another interpretation that’s not my idea at all. It’s the idea of people who act or take care of artists. Something like in that Your Face Sounds Familiar Tv program. Experts from that program say that a person who is holding hands like that while singing is holding all her misery secured in her hands. I mean, that’s one explanation for a gesture like that, it’s basically that if you do that gesture, you are holding something important to you in your hands, like your heart, your feelings or your misery that you want to be rid of or that you want to hold close to you so it won’t escape you and affect somebody else.

Ali: *processes that for a moment* … So, you think Pearl is holding her misery in her hands while singing this song?

Jean: Well, yea, some kind of a misery from the past, but it’s more of a bittersweet kind of misery.

[My god, how does he do this? – Orosoni]