But I want to hold the song like a photograph and hang it up on my wall looking at it before I go to sleep. And I just don’t know why it makes me want to hug my parents and take pictures of all my friends. How nostalgic I feel when she croons the verse “mom and dad let me stay home/it drives you crazy getting old”. I can’t tell how many times I’ve listened to it. Especially because she is sixteen and can voice so poetically her emotions and observations of the world. Lorde expresses her desire to become well known in the music world and that she understands what she is getting into by having such big dreams. Captures a piece of the teenage boredom everyone faces while trying to be so much like the kids who are above all successful and powerful. Their molars blinking like the lights in the underpass where we all sit and do nothing and love it” (White Teeth Teen, Pure Heroine). I’ll give you an example: “I’ll let you in on something big: I am not a white teeth teen.
As she repeats over and over again in “ Ribs,” This dream isn’t feeling sweet We’re reeling through the midnight streets And I’ve never felt more alone It feels so scary getting old.The album’s theme of class systems and wanting to be number one while still being young is the best lyrics for my (our) generation. Lorde was at the perfect age to write genuinely about growing older, and she and her producer Joel Little turned that sensation into background rhythms that will never get old. Real responsibilities replace the fear of worrying about whether or not your parents will find that Poland Springs bottle full of Svedka behind your desk. Either way, it captures that feeling perfectly.Ĭoming to Penn, many of us realize for the first time that youth is fleeting. Or maybe it’s because it sounds like drunk crying that a synthesizer has manipulated to oblivion. Maybe that’s because the album is simultaneously frightening and pleasant, just like being a teen on the verge of adulthood. I’ve come to realize that this sound hypnotizes me because it reminds me of that dream of getting older we all had as kids.
After listening obsessively to Pure Heroine for a few years, whenever I listen to it now it seems like every song has a similar background of trancey humming.
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