Circle The Drain Poem Analysis

Katy Perry’s “Circle the Drain” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqarXvTf_jU) is a song about the narrator’s former relationship in which her significant other had a substance abuse disorder and how her former significant other’s addiction led the narrator to eventually leave the relationship. She sings that “this is the last time you say/After the last line you break/It's not even a holiday, nothing to celebrate/You give a hundred reasons why/You say you're really gonna try/If I had a nickle for every time, I'd own the bank” The narrator describes how her boyfriend continues abuse cocaine while also telling her that it is the last time he will abuse drugs. Although she knows that he is creating excuses, lying, and that this is not the last

Furthermore, the researchers’ assessment of cohabitating relationships was included in the overall research of assessing romantic relationships, substance use in early adults, including the relationship types, the partner’s substance use, and the quality of the relationship. Moreover, in relation to my song choice and proposed test the findings and conclusions the researchers came to was that “across different relationship statuses, partner use is important and moderates the associations between relationship quality and both heavy drinking and marijuana use. More supportive, enjoyable, and satisfying relationships were related to less use only in situations in which the intimate partner was not substantially involved in substance use (Fleming, White, & Catalano, 2010).” The relevance of this is that in the song the narrator discusses how the more her partner uses substances the less satisfying the relationship is, while the research shows that when one of the partners were not heavily using substances the it was more