“Butterflies” by Abe Parker
Butterflies is a term which, colloquially speaking, connotes the sensation of being anxious. However, this is not true anxiety we’re talking about per se but more akin to, say being nervous on the verge of speaking in front of a crowd.
This term is also widely used in a romantic context, to refer to like that tingling feeling you get in your stomach during the early stages of a relationship, when you’re around the other person but before you really get to know them that well. And it is that form of “butterflies” which Abe Parker is alluding to in this piece.
The second verse does imply that maybe in this case, Abe and the addressee, i.e. the apple of his eye, are already well acquainted on the romantic tip. But either way, he is trying to ascertain her feelings in regards to their relationship, which would once again imply that said union is in its early stages.
Overall, the thesis sentiment would be that he is indeed in love. So the questions contained in the song serve the purpose of finding out whether or not this person truly feels the same.
Abe Parker and “Butterflies”
There currently (as of February 2022) isn’t a lot of information readily available on Abe Parker. This is considering for instance that as it currently stands he doesn’t have his own Wikipedia page.
Moreover his personal website has some navigation/readability issues. So it would seem that as of the release of this track, he is more along the lines of an underground sporting a terse discography which, according to Genius, dates back to 2014.
And it would also appear that he’s quite popular in Indonesia. And to note, Parker concurrently has in excess of 13,000 followers on Instagram, and by the looks of things he may be along the lines of a gospel artist.
Abe produced and wrote “Butterflies”.
