“Hard and spades“ or „heart(s) and spades“ or also „hard in spades“ are two different symbols, in the double sense:
Hearts and spades are known from the French card game and, despite some similarities, represent two opposites:
Hearts stands for red, gentleness, love, connection and positively connoted emotions, for openness, trust, joy and beauty.
Spades stand for blackness, thorns, pain, demarcation and rejection and emotions with negative connotations.
Its aesthetic is more complex than that of the heart, „noncircular“ due to the triangle at the upper edge of the heart and nevertheless symmetrical and therefore intuitively appealing.
If „heart/hard and spades“ were a rose, the first word would represent the rosebud/blossom while the second word „spades“ represents the thorns. This is also the appeal of writing „heart“ as „hard“, but phonetically associating the word more with „heart“. Do heart and spade fight each other? Are they orbiting each other? Do they even need each other?
The twilight zone between these two opposites is musically attained and fathoms out their dimensions.
Softly moaned, sexualized vocals meet hard, pounding, danceable beats, while hard, dark lyrics are followed by spherical soundscapes.
Ideally always danceable and terribly good-looking, because how else could any person better live life? The unity of song and beat depicts the extremes between the tangible banalities of one’s own existence.