for me it’s both his worst and his best rollout. The second Instagram account, troye hq, that messy Apple Music interview, gorgeous music videos. now thought he messed with the tracklist and my Apple Music still hasn’t recovered for some reason and I can’t add the album to my library. what do you guys think

I love the song cause it really captures the longing and has this sad, almost ugly (as in ugly feeling, idk not sure how to phrase this) undertone to it. Im trying to figure out what the video and the song mean, cause right now ive come across two interpretations and they both kind of clash.

1. Its about a new love slowly drifting away - this is more apparent in the scenes toward the end where the guy just leaves troye on the beach and troyes running, and in the last few scenes where hes watching the house without the guy, and the staircase where only troyes there and the guy isnt. This is consistent with the lyrics too cause the lyrics point to a real person who's different from troye and their interactions

2. Its about longing for and imagining a boyfriend, and hoping that his future boyfriend's gonna be forever, and the whole sad undertone is just to capture how intense that longing is. This is from the billboard interview where he said the song's about a boyfriend he hasnt met yet. But if this is it i dont see how the music video communicates that the guy isnt real, cause we do see scenes of troye being upset with him. The scenes that do allude to the fact that the boyfriend might not exist are the ones where troye's alone in the water in the beach, or the beginning where hes alone. But then again i feel like the scenes at the end contradict this narrative.

Can someone tell me their interpretation of the video and the song? I really wanna figure it out. Im just obsessed with this song cause it resonates with me deeply, ive watched the video 50 times already probably. I just want to understand the song properly, if it makes sense.

Open to other opinions and perspectives too.