“I’m in a clique but I want out / It’s not the same as when I was punched / In the old days there was enough / The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood” In an almost prescient view of modern Trump America, or an elegy for cities reduced to dust, Lorde throws one out for the marginalized and impoverished. “We live in cities you’ll never see on screen / Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things / Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams” We don’t know too many Top 40 artists going around citing Broken Social Scene songs. If this one doesn’t exactly prove Lorde wise beyond her years, it further cements her good taste. “The drink you spilt all over me / “Lover’s Spit” left on repeat / My mum and dad let me stay home / It drives you crazy getting old” Here, in a line reminiscent of the ragged poetry of The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg (Lorde covered the ‘Mats “Swinging Party”) a teenage Lorde addressed the underlying sadness beneath the glamour.
Lorde has always been critical of the pitfalls of superficial beauty, which is just one of the reasons why breakout single “Royals” caught so many off-guard. 2013 - light years ago in Internet time - but the masses are still clamoring for more. Lorde hasn’t released an album since Sep. “It’s in your bloodstream / A collision of atoms that happens before your eyes / It’s a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size” With that in mind, here are 10 lyrics from Lorde’s songbook when the singer/songwriter proved wise beyond her years.
After all, careful deliberation and pragmatism are rarely the defining traits of a 20-year-old.
The very fact that Lorde is willing to test her fans and management’s patience ( she split from her long-time manager Scott Maclachlan in 2015) and not rush out an ill-conceived follow-up, highlights wisdom that belies Lorde’s age. I’ve worked like a dog for a year making this thing great for you guys.” “The record is written, we’re in the production stage now. “Give up on me if you want to! I write a record when I have enough special stories to tell, and it’s all me, every melody every lyric, not some team who just start the machine up every eighteen months like clockwork,” she wrote.
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