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  • In the song "Without Love" Penny sings "Seaweed, you're my black white-knight, I've found my blue-eyed soul". What is she talking about? Black white-knight is fairly obvious, but what blue-eyed soul has she found?
    • "Blue-eyed soul" is a term used for white people who sing in traditionally "black" genres of music such as R&B—your Adeles, Rick Astleys, and such. Blue-eyed soul isn't for Seaweed, it's for Penny—she's saying she's found her inner "blackness," as it were.


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